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time out

By Jasmine Low
Written for, and performed at the Time Out KL Launch, 25th March 2008
Frangipani Bar, Changkat Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur.


This piece is about her. That woman in us all.

It was the year of living dangerously
Through the pages of that magazine,
Those 'dog – yeared' pages.

I lived through her large rimmed sunglasses
Peeking and seeing positions even contortionists would have
found a challenge.

And I simply loved lurking in and out of her emails
And tug gently her personal drawer where she’d keep a stash of that
And I would creep into her room in the middle of the night
And watch her fall in and out of love.

It was unusual how they’d just listen
To her ceaseless words of wisdom
For she was just not ready, she’d proclaim

Cranberry juices calmed her
And her uterus track
For she was simply not ready

Because free spirits like her live like no tomorrow
She’d bodysurf and yearn to be you-tubed doing it
nothing, nothing was going to stop her
from having some time out…


Plagiarising will give u callouses and bad breath.

 

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