"most CB ghazal ever", Low Kian Seh

bo bian must obey this gahmen-thrown CB
WhatsApp spammed with LKY’s you don’t CB

better don’t play play go nearby CC
collect mask and go home do your own CB

I whole day nag my laobu like broken CD
stay home so tough meh, kau, it’s full-blown CB

I neber study hard but I got listen CCE,
dunno which defence lah but I stay home won’t CB

why you go kiss XMM in public kenna fine so silly
wait a few weeks lor if you wanna bone CB

brudders I’ll lepak at home, won’t see me
break rules wah lau eh wait become overblown CB

/ Low Kian Seh has a chemical engineering degree but is an artist to a larger degree. He is a chemistry teacher by occupation but has poetry as preoccupation. For the love of the craft, he makes time to write, despite being a busy civil servant and father-of-three. His works had been published in SingPoWriMo anthologies, A Luxury We Cannot Afford, A Luxury We Must Afford, Twin Cities, Anima Methodi, Contour and Seven Hundred Lines. He won first prize in Singapore’s National Poetry Competition 2019, and is better known for his twin cinema poem “Singaporean Son” that has gone viral, twice.

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