"The Via Hierosa and Kultura Krismatra and Ultramar classes only have 4 to 5 signups each;
how does he not feel worried by this? How is still going ahead to teach
what he knows is true?
We only gave him and SLS the go-ahead
because we thought it would be like---"
uh, all the other times
your malevolent plans actually bore fruit?
Which times exactly?
When you allowed Kodrah to grow huge
thinking it would distract me?
When you colonised my friend's mind
so that he would destroy my sense of nobility?
When you thought nobody would show up
for a walking tour of Kristang MRT stations
and a music talk about 'invented' traditions
because the leader of the whole thing is gay and non-binary?
When you wanted West Africa to be the worst experience of our lives
and instead much of the homophobia turned out to be
literally imaginary?
Friend,
sit down quietly. Santah kaladu,
as you used to tell my community:
ngka mutu chadu, ah, bos?
You keep hoping for fears and insecurities and flaws
not realising
that my ancestors did not defy such epoch-shattering mental slavery
for nothing.
I'll teach whatever and wherever,
even if it is only to the brave, and the few who are willing
to fight alongside me.
And no matter what you try and do,
you can never take away my sense of belonging
to Fuad, and to Kristang, and to all those who are here and who have gone before
that I deservedly call my family.
And I didn't forget you, Singapore;
you too will always have my undying loyalty.
Virtues speak even louder than actions and words, therefore.
Just ask NUS;
just like me, they also don't believe in
astrology.
It's what is in the body, mind, heart and soul
that makes it all so appealing:
the sense of noble, breathtaking, unstoppable
individuality.
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