john tiong chunghoo (Jan 21,1960 / Sibu, Sarawak - Land with Cat City, Swan City, Oil City and the World's Largest Cave Mulu)

college sick bay
i count the bells knelling
classes to a close

father crying
he has always taken funerals
in his stride

The baby coos
laughs and
rocks the pram

whispers inform
strangers
I am the eldest

the corpse
stanched
bandaged

he lies in the
four foot box a poppy bruise
on his left temple

a four foot box
a foot for
every year