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Filtering by Tag: Cyril Wong

Poems, Cyril Wong

Maria S. Mendes

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Thank you for the subtle S&M; 
the light bondage, the sharp spanks;
for turning on every lamp
under the skin. Thank you for trust
and experimentation; for mild 
kinkiness to what-the-fuck-
were-you-thinking? Thank you
for still believing in limitation.
Thank you for submission
and for accepting contradiction:
for understanding “yes” when
I meant “no”. Thank you 
for binding us together
to the here and now; 
for the art of our amnesia 
regarding impermanence 
and a purgatorial world outside. 

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tags Cyril Wong, Heat, Weather, Intermezzo, Thanksgiving

Interviewing Cyril Wong

Maria S. Mendes

JF: Is it fear?
Yes, fear is definitely a huge part of it. We put the cart before the horse. The history of our country’s poetry starts off with the public. In order to succeed as a poet, you have to talk about public things: the lion, this building, that building, how beautiful Singapore is… We’re so afraid of talking about ourselves in a deeper way.

But I resisted that urge. I needed to feel it was natural to me, so I wrote confessional poetry. I did it organically. The trouble came when I started to publish it. Everyone was basically telling me to shut up. That I shouldn’t be doing this. I felt like I was a Literary Activist in a way. I was filling a void.

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categories Interview
tags Cyril Wong