Friday, August 17, 2007

'Handwriting'

I wrote this yesterday, on the way back to Penang from Butterworth via ferry:


I'm so disjointed when I'm bored.

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Transcribed:

Rats crawling overhead. Need to be wary like how I am when walking along roads in Masjid Kapitan Keling; though some believe that pigeon shit landing (on) / being in contact with a person means luck. Not so the case with rats. Rats are crawling overhead, on the metal structures of the ferry, using them like bridges and channels.

The wind's so strong and there's a leak from the ceiling a few metres away. The wind's so strong that I can hear it through these headphones. I'm having trouble writing with the wind beating on these pages; like I'm seated next to someone who's also writing but with his left hand, (and) is clumsy or is intentionally so, just to obstruct the production of these words.

I'm listening to 'Comforting Sounds' by Mew; "Nobody has gained or accomplished anything."

It's the outro now. The wind's still beating, flipping the pages on my right. Hard. I'm smudging the ink. The trumpets just kicked in and I'm looking at the lights from the mainland's bay. I'm so tired.

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4 comments:

ray said...

wow mike you have such good handwriting! mine's really, really awful and i can't even write with pen and paper anymore..

Mike Wong said...

Thanks! I think some might have trouble reading it though, hence the transcription. Handwriting isn't really awful until it's difficult to read by those other than the writer (and I've even met some who can't read their own writing sometimes!)

Anonymous said...

Lost!

This one is for another day when I can copy and paste this and ask you if I posted it.

AF said...

Facinating handwriting. Particularly the apostrophes.