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GetLit! Part 3: We Apologise For The Inconvenience Caused
#BuySingLit begins today, heralding three days of more than 40 activities in all four official languages to promote Singapore literature, aka SingLit. In print and online, The New Paper is profiling some of the talent involved. Today, we have a selection of work looking beyond tomorrow...
Faith Christine Lai
As long as I can remember, this country has always been building new things.
During the day, amidst a permanent roar of drills boring through concrete,
we have all learned to communicate efficiently in sign language.
At night, amidst a resonant thunder of metal beams clanging,
my phone lights up in the dark with your text-message fantasies.
You describe to me the way you imagine my sighs would sound, if only you could hear them.
