The National Art Gallery of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpar, 13th May

In step two aussie girls:
One a blatant tourist
aware of her ignorance
violent, impolite,
in her snatching curiosity.

The other, all travel shame,
sees only her bruised Lonely Planet,
that light catamaran
that will skim over these Malay waters
but won't sink in
until it stops at port.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Art_Gallery_%28Malaysia%29

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/malaysia

Museum of Islam, Melakka, 5th May

Next door at the architecture museum they didn't mention the spiritual significance of decorative roof lattice. That shape represents the relationship between god and man, this one man and earth.

Museum of Malaysian Architecture, Melakka, 5th May

Post-colonialism:
neo-classicism restored to suit the tourists
and airconditioned to suit the tropics.

Singa-Tronica - Flame of the Forest, The Esplanade (Singapore), May 2

The city's glowing complexion:
a waterfront stage
with waterfront lights.
A cover of Bjork
sweetened
with condensed milk.



The Esplanade's program

Fight Club, Singapore Airlines, 1 May

I eat a single-serve meal
in a single-serve seat.
On the single-serve screen
Cornelius-Jack prays
for his plane to crash.
For a second it does.
I die a single-serve death.



prays for his plane to crash
Singapore Airlines inflight entertainment

Godzilla All Out Monster Attack, my DVD player, 29 April

Ignore subtitles
instead translate the screams,
launch giddy haiku.


Godzilla Haiku

The Business of Poetry, Innovation, 28 April

Notebooks out
pens poised
chairs cocked towards the speaker
in desperate efficiency.
O Venus, O Goddess!
Teach us the business
of poetry!



The Business of Poetry