Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Day 91. curve balls

a pigmy on the dance floor and a snake around my neck
today's been playing strange but still I haven't finished yet

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Day 90. wake up call

call to prayer but no answer heard
save for buzzing bikes and the early bird

Day 89. sleeping patterns

darkness follows a little light
it seems our day has flipped with night

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Day 88. Intellectual converse

man who professes to have made mice glow
cannot see the above, cannot stand the below

Friday, May 27, 2011

Day 86. another blank

wheels keep turning and I'm finding it hard
to keep up, yet already I've come so far.

Day 87. NZ Navy

chance meeting in a bustling pub
soon we're drinking like sailors in the bar above

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Day 85. Birthday present

three hour massage and not by a pro
they can't take you the places we go

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Day 84. Journey of the collective

we are all travelers going one way
where we get off creates the change

Monday, May 23, 2011

Day 83. paying for half

punching the numbers and spending the time
most of the day we are sat inside

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Day 82. Warning bells

says unprompted man "your out of place here"
as slyly he pours me a pre opened beer

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Day 81. volunteered

pick any three cards that you'd like to choose
now stand there still while I throw at you

Friday, May 20, 2011

Day 80. the other side

across the way tin shacks abide
while hanging lights attempt to hide

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Day 79. trials

lost in the labyrinth streets of malacca
should be easy still it's all hard yaka

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Day 78. changing colours

burnt bridges but the mind still crosses
turned vision but the eye still wonders

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Day 77. Chinatown markets

shopping for the family
handbag one, then two, then three

Monday, May 16, 2011

Day 76. redemption

cultural diversity wins in the end
music shows love when we start to descend

Day 75. Cheated

talk talk talk to escape the blame
hate to think they are all the same

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Day 74. KL shopping part 2

sense by every surface cornered
consume affair was short and sordid


Friday, May 13, 2011

Day 73. KL tech shopping

from shop to shop a butterfly
comparing prices low and high

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Day 72. talk of expansion

foot massage given by the blind
owner takes all that he can find

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Day 71. Malaysian rip off

flames rise higher as I try to return
fake iPhone and I seem to be burnt

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Day 70. Wake up call

"don't be so trusting, you got lucky this time"
says Malaysian music lover as we exit his ride

Day 69. wrong choice in transport

contemplated train, then took the bus instead
this feels like a chair, and nothing like a bed

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Day 68. Ben and Yai

American acquaintance and his big brother Thai
both living from different worlds, yet in one world confined

Day 67. lost cave

lost in the bush because the signs are all the same
got to turn back home before the dark begins it's reign

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Day 66. night markets

quant but busy markets, so much from to choose
but make selection carefully, or you'll have runny poos

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Day 65. Lyrics lost

Inspirations come and pass
When their captured, found to last

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Day 64. Sloppy kiss

i don't know quite how to receive
your unco-ordinated siege

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Day 63. Sunglasses vanished

goods plucked from me on the sands in time
I stood to reason and then I found the rhyme

Monday, May 2, 2011

Day 61. Lost paradise

the middle of Thai bush with a large disgruntled man
and nothing else to cool us but an old and rusty fan