Food for Thought

Tough day. Wall to wall teaching and other stuff. But moments of illumination, especially in the classroom. Just one - the pleasure of spending a bit of time on one of Alfian Sa'at's many fine poems. (Surely the best poet in Singapore, if there's any point in keeping league tables thereon.) Curiously this followed reading about questions relating to him being asked in Parliament here yesterday. Definitely food for thought, methinks. And talking, or rather thinking, of food, he's written my favourite poem about fasting month - not that there are too many on the subject (in English, at least.)