Answer:
Bumboat cruise on a s5ingapore river is a poem that merely provides information about Singapore's river.
Explanation:
From the poem, we discover that the poet, Miriam Wei Wei Lo gives information about the Singapore's river.
In this poem, the poet reveals that at the mouth of the river Merlion still astonishes. There was a talk of closing down the mouth of the river. The poet further stated that the swelling of the river was bigger and that it was beating their boat.
The poem merely gives information of Singapore's river.
The excerpt below is an from "Bumboat cruise on a Singapore river":
''To the mouth of the Singapore river, where the Merlion
still astonishes: grotesque and beautiful as a gargoyle.
The children begin to chafe at confinement. My daughter wails
above the drone of the engine. There’s talk of closing the mouth
of the river. New water supply. There’s talk of a casino.
Heated debate in the Cabinet. Old Lee and Young Lee
locked in some Oedipal battle. The swell is bigger out here
in the harbour, slapping up spray against the sides of the boat,
as if it were waves that kept it afloat, this boat,
this island, caught between sinking and swimming,
as I am caught now. As if rhetoric mattered.
As if this place gives me a name for myself."
