Jee Leong Koh

[today they coat the sun in candy crust]

today they coat the sun in candy crust
tomorrow what will they make safe and sweet
and sell it to the masses for a treat
yesterday they were pushing new stardust

beehives are trucked to wanton cornfield blue
assyrian refugees in flatbed ferries
when brooklyn bees are fed maraschino cherries
blood honey robitussin red for you

all is to be sold marrow pit and sap
it started long ago the gm tree
the apple once a bit of machinery
for our redemption is now an app

Originally published in Connor and Seal (Sibling Rivalry Press.

Jee Leong Koh is the author of Inspector Inspector, which was published by Carcanet and was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize.