The Box, Kallang Industrial Park, Singapore

January 2012

What is the price of indifference?

A man all alone at the end of the world finds a bundle in the road, motionless, silent. Is it a baby? Is it a bomb? The answer leads him on a journey in which he demands the price of indifference be admitted and asks what it means to be human.

What happened?

Easy to ask

more difficult to answer

each account argues with the next.

Everywhere

this accounting

scrawled on buildings

under bridges

on windows of what used to be trains.

Each story lays blame on a story seen elsewhere

some reshape others where they’re seen

scratches over scratchings

painting over paint

switch the subject

swap the object

“The whore tricked the bastard – ”scratch scratch

spray spray

“The bastard tricked the whore

and that is why the world has turned to dust.”