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A Chinese Cemetery
smoke trails the sky
over the cemetery
hell money burns
casting a misty layer
between this world
and the next
but not its reality
even after death
you need money
they reckon
stacks and stacks
they burn
every stack twenty million
everyone wants
their late next of kin
to be billionaires
to be rich
of course they wish
in turn they would
be made rich too
through their proxies
in the next world
at funeral they would
even burn paper mercedes
rolls royce, bungalows
computer, washing
machine, television set
well you name it
they have it
for the departed
need them like
they were still alive
they had buried
their dead but never
their memories
they trail the smoke
to the hearts of
the departed
a thin line between
this world and the next
after the visit,
they would go back
to wait for dreams
in case they have
done things not correct
for the hereafter
here among the old
and new graves
the tended as well
as the less tended
it takes only a little plastic
bag to send ripples
of sadness in the
lake of my heart
a little bag that leans
onto the base of
a gravestone
like a child in the bossom
of a granny
holding so much love
with its groundniuts,
chinese olives and sweets
the little bag carries
so much of affections
this world and the next
it bursts the seams
of my emphathies for
perhaps one little child
who has promised to
be back at granny's side
every year
i could almost hear
a child sob; 'Granny,
take care, I will be back
the next all souls.'
poem
by
John Tiong Chunghoo
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