Uh-oh!

Felix Cheong Seng Fei

(for Ryan, not a fan of the Teletubbies)

I

Isn't it apt
that as the millennium
winds its breath

that we would find
such appeal
in four candy apostles

and all their babble
is message enough
for child-like tongues ?

II

But these are no prophets,
though they too listen
for a somewhere Voice
to unload a vision off their chests.

For they offer not tidings
from a God of Great Things
but a merchandising i-deal,
which we follow, like lemmings,

to Laa-Laa Land.

Published in I Watch the Stars Go Out (1999)