KUALA LUMPUR

KUALA LUMPUR

City of idle hours, named after muddy
rivers which, like us, meet here in silence.
City in the grip of homesick blond clerks,
taken by mineworkers from all of Asia.

Clothes stick to the body, as in our house
with the roll-down shutters you always wanted closed.
Just as there: grey sky, tightly stretched membrane.
The dry clicks from the cricket field; heads

rolling into baskets. Going astray enlightens. In the sum
of misunderstandings, in the Brickfields of Indiatown,
I kneel before the neon of a commanding language,
digging for tin in your exhausted lap.






Publisher: In de Knipscheer, December 2003.
Book: € 15,00, cd (music by Dirk Stromberg): € 18,00. Set book + cd: € 29,50.
Postbox 6107, 2011 HC Haarlem, The Netherlands.



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