Friday, March 05, 2010

Please don't ask me to define Singaporean Literature.

Local writer,
Singaporean,
What do you write about?
What can you write about?

Political constraint,
Lack of freedom,
Why define ourselves like this?
Why rob ourselves of freedom to write?

The HDB flats all look the same,
We lose our identity,
Have we really lost it?
Have we been moulded into one yet?

Please, no.

Take a closer look.
Look into the homes in the HDB flats.
They won't look the same.
They'd have identity.

Think outside the box.
Don't define yourselves.
Not yet, just not yet.
It's still too early to do that.

Fellow writers,
Singaporeans,
Don't write about Singapore,
Write in Singapore.

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