Sunday, 28 February 2016

Dada 28


‘He’s stabbed me. He’s fucking stabbed me oh God ‘
I saw the woman in blue. I heard her whispering of my family.
‘ Do not judge all those born on the wrong side of the blanket.’

 Time after time, the weapon sunk itself into the fatal lines between destiny and history. One boy was laid before me, another by the door where he had tried to run towards the water. I was buried in a welter of arms and legs and the terrified, yet curious faces of the Malays, Dayaks and Chinese. I did what pirates  would always do, kill or be killed. Tables lay overturned. There arose a stampede of feet. The police were called. I was placed under arrest. They collected Mo and Iskra with me and took us all to the police station.

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