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Little Cellophane Child
Jade Goh
“She asked me one day, perched on my knee. Little cellophane
child — translucent and transient.
All day you spend, in darkened rooms with a million
fireflies for candles, a silver chalice with abandoned dregs of
Guan Zing leaves and Equator beans, furiously fighting qwerty.
Daddy, how do you expect solitude to change the world if yours
consists only of four walls? …”
