Bikini (frida)

Sleek glossy

           Body

‘pika pika bright

            picaninny

Camera flash

On the blue atoll

Blonde bombshell    three-letter code    inflatable airbag

    Painted planes    nose art                                 rising like a white flag

recall recall Bikini

Bikini atoll

Skinny skin shine              soft      suede  sugar   shandy-shandy

Soft-soft shady                   cloud-soft       oh, tasty mushroom cloud

baby baby girl or boy    suit and tie

Hard-heeled

Vital bits

               Plastic-wrapped

troll

falls out of

Bikini

Magazine

‘tatta tatta’ ‘chak’ DON

                                                knockout

     Dimpled dunes

don’t atone

       pretty-pretty

coral life blue

          on bikini

‘pika pika’ DON

                        baby itsa

            BOY

      (bravo!)

      ready swells

radiant

            (‘pika’)

rising

from

             Bikini

           blue

       strings

slipping

    not

          at all

    atoll

Tham, Zhen Teng. “Bikini.” Body Boundaries: The EtiquetteSG Anthologies Volume I. Eds. Tania de Rozario, Zarina Muhammed, and Krishna Udayasankar. Singapore: The Literary Centre, 2014. 144-145. Print.

[cf.

Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1339; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atoll

Little Boy atomic nuclear bomb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy]

- all levels (world war 2 part of lower and upper sec History syllabus)

- re-writing history

- various sound devices, free verse

- perform poem by varying beat/ rhythm, emphasis; read poem before and after historical information on nuclear bomb testing