For twenty years
sending group emails
rejecting his retirement
is his business of the day
today I receive the message
certain benefits
at a senior age
Monday
A and W all food 20% discount
Tuesday
Imax movies less three dollars per round
Wednesday
Canadian Tire senior special applies
Thursday
Drug Mart vitamins three-quarters of the price
Friday
Mcdonalds offers super size coffee at eighty five cents
Saturday
Mandarin serves 20% off their buffet
Sunday
Go Transit gives 65 plus one trip free
And countless more!
he sent in
My mother
received all those
but seldom used them
remembering her back
bent like an arch
of a rainbow
how I kept staring
and fearing her depart
now I have eyes
like hers
half moons
always cloudy
and I wish
I could afford
a nocturnal life
owls don't have
sleepless nights
For twenty years
shifted professions
climbing different trains
years passed like days
ugh! Twenty years
still quite spotless
this one-third
of our way
We've vowed
and kept
our promise
no complaint
a heart for the country
in the maple leaf terrain
you learn to love woodwork
you endure finger-slitting pain
I cook almost every night
I try different recipes
this land likes
a palette of world tastes
Now, we have only one season
eternal winter and its blight
one out of tune alto voice
don't discounts
make you feel better?
a sarcastic redemption
a pretend graceful age
soon travel to no-where land
with the speed of light
if I could rewind
winter's clock
I will wind back
if I could barter
I will trade
all the benefits
for the return of
days of awe
Yes
to yesterdays
and years
above
all
Words by Holly Lee. Response in picture by Lee Ka-sing
黃楚喬李家昇早餐下午茶筆記集
黃楚喬李家昇早餐下午茶筆記集
[Objects of Mythical Power]
05202010_for Malgozata
05232010_for Madeleine and Flavia
A Day Remembered
A potluck Song
A Still Life from the third-floor window in YoungPlace
A Trip After The Moon Festival
Another Saturday
April Skies 四月天
At Seventy-five
Benefits
Big head Tommy
Christmas Eve 2011
Colour I
Deniz from Istanbul
Distributary
Dropping Notes While Riding On A Stratford Bound Bus
Fireworks
For Ka-sing
for ks
From Dufferin Grove...
Fruit Dictionary
Ground
Harbours and city flowers
Ice Watch
Istanbul
Night Lights 夜 燈
No poems today
Old Don Huang
On Ancient Poems
one or two things June two three twelve a.m.
Palacio de Cristal
Paper Talk
Poems on Spain: Barcelona
Que Será
Sagrada Família
Será
She posed for a photograph
Snow
someday
The Thinker (after Rodin)
Thoughts on photography
To fold a dream
To name a flower
To write a poem
Traveller
Tuxedo Suki
Two Cities
Two Cups
Wednesday morning College street
Winter Poem I (Double Life)
今天兩則 Two Thoughts Today
我是一顆鏍絲
路
阿里哈伯說
Contact: mail@leekasing.com
All rights reserved.
All rights reserved.