Shirley Geok-lin Lim (b. 1944)
SELECTED POEMS
Do you live in Singapore?
(With thanks to Wendy Cope)
Can someone make my mother’s wish come true?
Transnational CEO with private plane,
do you live in Singapore? Is it you?Rich connected family, not kiasu,
successful lawyer, smartly dressed and sane.
Can someone make my mother’s wish come true?Generous, arty type also can do,
so long as Harvard, Yale-NUS trained.
Do you live in Singapore? Is it you?Better if you have freehold bungalow:
Thomson, Holland Village, villa in Spain.
Can someone make my mother’s wish come true?President’s Scholar with high EQ too,
sensitive, sexy dancer with a brain,
do you live in Singapore? Is it you?Only citizens need apply. We’ve few
other requirements: preference Christian.
Can someone make my mother’s wish come true?
Do you live in Singapore? Is it you?
by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
from Do You Live In? (2015)
