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Tse Hao Guang



STOP OR CONTINUE WORKOUT

it is wise to continue working out in a
air con gym with the current HAZE Condition?

come share your view? //


indo bbq again??? //


I have to wear mask to clear my nose

went to the gym bo tai bo chi drop 4kg +
I cannot do the weight I was able to do also -____- //



why is PAP not doing anything abt the haze?
what are they doing instead?
I feel very unwell with the haze //


I planning to sign up for Anytime fitness
when I go in for NS later. Should I or should I not?

I’m PES E stay out BMT btw //


PES E in NS and yet can join gym outside
really chao keng, must ask Mindef reclass your PES

sad that today’s young generation like that //


u all must learn to be magnanimous ok...

repeat after me “I must be magnanimous
I must be magnanimous, I must be magnanimous...” //


HAZE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PAP?
WHAT YOU EXPECT?
THEM TO BLOW JOB THE **** OF THE SKY? //


cause our Foreign affair minister
doing sloppy work, cannot press for eternal Haze-free
like that how? our economy is doomed! //


bro, the ‘****’ is abit over already lah
u have to sound more condescending

almost ther liao, but no ‘**** this, **** that’
$1 coming your way soon //


must be tough talking to urself... log in log out //


I tried working out with my Mask on
end up kena call BANE LOL! //


well... what the heck is he minister for?

to point finger at the ceiling
to point finger at the sky
to point finger at the floods
to point finger at Indonesia
to point finger at the rats //


doesn’t mean I PES E I must lay in bed
whole day with tubes attached right? //


I only worry for my great leader LKY
I wonder how he’s coping now...

I pray for him.

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YOU CAN’T CLONE YOURSELF

if you had chance to clone one person
who is still alive who would you clone? //


clone is just a look not the real person
the person’s mind is still zero

except someone invented how to insert
memory into the clone person

but cloning pets, would be nice //


clone many George w bush and
Osama bin laden. let them fight nonstop //


clone ah wang so we can see more ahwangness
more head-shaking cats //


if you clone someone
they would look different when fully grown

besides

what determines the “soul”?
If we believe in evolution
then it would have some sort of “spirit”

but those of us who believe in a God
what would inhabit that cloned human?

syaitan, perhaps? //


can I have a copy of sandra dewi pls? //


I rather impregnate someone
to create a new and unique being //


can u do stuff with the clone?
or u gotta let it go? //


you can do wat ever u want wif it...
including let go... and it’s an exact duplicate...
same character... same memory... //


I wan to clone my daddy... can??

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Tse Hao Guang (謝皓光) is the author of The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association (Tinfish Press, 2023), and of pamphlets from the Earthbound Poetry Series (2024) and If A Leaf Falls Press (2025). He edited the new edition of Windham-Campbell prize-winning poet Wong May’s 1969 debut, A Bad Girl’s Book of Animals (Ethos Books, 2023), and runs Paper Jam, a literary pamphlet imprint. He is a 2016 fellow of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, a 2018 writer-in-residence at NTU, and a 2023 virtual resident of the National Centre for Writing at Norwich. Poems and essays appear in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Yale Review, Brick, Basket and elsewhere.

Instagram: @hao__guang