LETTER | A poem in defence of Penang's Straits Quay.
0
Will sunrise look like morning in our children’s eyes
Blocked by a 280 hectares man-made island with a concrete jungle soaring high
Will our joy at the smooth-coated otters flirting in the shimmering waters be deprived
As Greed gobbles up the sea impacting marine life and fisherfolk struggling to survive
0
How did we come to this cartoon state
Where an exhibition of cartoons stirs an unruly mob into a frenzied state
To disrupt and tear down the cartoon exhibits - was it a High-Up order ?
As the cartoonist was arrested instead by the police for “ public disorder”!
0
The testing of the sea-bed started off in January on a wrong mis-step
0
Did the CCCC think it can tame the Andaman Sea
With its reinforced fleet of barges and ships and new ‘artillery’?
An influx of contract workers to do their ‘dirty job' so as to survive
Toiling at the excavators to create a ‘fantasy island’ with waves riding high?
0The Andaman Sea is painted RED by the CCCC
As its Ocean Liner, Teratai, barges and tugboats littered the sea
Damming the sea with slabs of one ton concrete to hide
While rings of ‘sea-curtain’ barricade the free flow of tides
0
00
