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The Taxi Poems:
He is bald and chubby
Copyright 2006 by Chris Mooney-Singh
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Chris writes:
In Singapore, I take a lot of taxis. There are more than 20,000 in this small island city-state at the bottom tip of Malaysia. I continue to be fascinated by the brief capsule of interaction that taxis offer passenger and driver—like this evening, I was picked up on the way home from our monthly Singapore Slam at Zouk, Singapore's top nightclub. There are a large majority of Chinese in Singapore, along with lesser percentages of Malays, Indians, Europeans, and Eurasians. Most taxi drivers place religious iconography before them on the dash.
Chris Mooney-Singh (b. Australia,1956) is the founder of Poetry Slam in Singapore. Of Anglo-Irish descent, he adopted Sikhism in 1989. He has published four poetry collections, co-edited a poetry anthology, The Penguin Book of Christmas Poems, and has three spoken-word CDs, the latest being Living in the Land of the Durian Eaters. Programme Director of Word Forward Limited, he facillitates poetry workshops in schools and colleges, and with his co-Director Savinder Kaur, has formed the National Youth Poetry Slam League and the Asian Slam League. Mooney-Singh was a guest at the Austin International Poetry Festival, 2003, and the Hong Kong Writers Festival, 2004.
