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| Issue #1 : : Mar 2004 |
| Seeds O'Light2004 :: Amateur::Poetry::Circle |
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| (07) The last life in the universe He sang a broken tune to the moon and danced a slow tango with his shadow A clean echo from the depth of the universe landed on him with luminous lightness of butterfly dust A glass tear dropped from the corner of his unblinking yellow reptilean eye onto the very white ice in Siberia Ming Boon, 17 Mar 2004 Singapore Note from poet: I typed this in a hurry during a 10 minute break in my night class. The film that inspired me was a very quirky indie Thai/Japanese film titled: The Last Life in the Universe. It is about an excessively clean Japanese librarian/yukuza who is obsessed with his own suicide. The suicide attempts (failed) were carried out in absolute precision in very rational manner. He wanted suicide not because of unrequited love, nor of mundane matters like money. But simply because there was no reason to live anymore. Because to him, he was the last life in the universe. He meant nothing to no one, and no one meant anything to him. A laughter, a word, a tear, and even this thought about being the last life in the world meant nothing when it was not being heard or shared. It prompted me to think -- It is easy to find an excuse to terminate a life due to push factors, but how then should one live a life without pull factors? |