Or 2 How does Cheng create such disturbing impressions of the city in The Planners? The Planners They plan. They build. All spaces are gridded, filled with permutations of possibilities. The buildings are in alignment with the roads which meet at desired points linked by bridges all hang in the grace of mathematics. They build and will not stop. Even the sea draws back and the skies surrender. 5 They erase the flaws, 10 the blemishes of the past, knock off useless blocks with dental dexterity. All gaps are plugged with gleaming gold. The country wears perfect rows 15 of shining teeth. Anaesthesia, amnesia, hypnosis. They have the means. They have it all so it will not hurt, so history is new again. 20 The piling will not stop. The drilling goes right through the fossils of last century. But my heart would not bleed poetry. Not a single drop 25 to stain the blueprint of our past's tomorrow. (Boey Kim Cheng)

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