Singapore: Alfian Sa'at

Available for over a year

WHY A MAN CANNOT HAVE WINGS by Alfian bin Sa'at Because he will crash land on his head, assuming it to be The strongest part of his body. Because someone will put up a sign that reads: Do Not Step on the Cirrus Clouds. Because it does not even take a man hundreds of feet above Sea-level to learn contempt. Because there will be new categories of handicaps: bow-wings, Ostrich disease, scaly feathers, carousel flight syndrome, Or at a freak show: The Amazing Wingless Wonder. Because he will have a new weapon, gravity, And everything he releases becomes a missile, Even glass marbles, books, the fatal music box. Because he is lonely enough without being able to Frame the house he lives in between his forefinger and thumb. Because then the sky will shed its metaphors of freedom And become another path for him to carry his burdens.