TMCR

Tanah Merah Coast Road,
You deserve a mention
You dirty smelly flat hot windy highway

Your bladder-bursting emptiness
Your teeth-gritting sand
Your strength-draining midday glare
You soothe with breezes of sewer, wafts of pitstop, headwinds of burnt oil
A mouthful of bugs at dawn

Your construction sites, your piles of dirt
Width ridden by trucks cyclists and black caterpillars
A vanishing point without depth,
Romantic only in darkness

TMCR, you line a coast without sea, a damn without water, a land stolen from other countries

Nobody walks you

Oh but your tedious desolation makes no demands!