THE FIRE HUTS
The ritual uses beautiful objects:
Textured golden paper,
Wooden sticks,
Gnome huts.
It opens with
fire
everywhere
fire
fire
Chai Chee has probably the best huts in the island,
with their chimneys, ledges,
see-throughs and little roofs.
They are the same and some of them are different.
16 huts make a hamlet.
When were they built? Who designed them? Why?
“I am looking into your email.
I would need more time to respond to you.” says the HDB,
mysteriously.
Where do the gnomes go when the ritual is underway?
Bedok has run out of money, alamak
it’ll be raining on its gnomes.
Kallang goes big, industrious and industrial,
surely catering for hobbit families.
Many more estates, modest, modern and proud -
with shy dragons lying low.
And when all is settled,
swirling ashes and charred shells
The beautiful objects remain
as shelters
for our friends.
RIP Lady Apathy
