Indonesian Handbag
\nby Jan Cornall<\/p>\n
Please help me, will you help me
\nI don't know what to do
\nPlease help me, will you save me
\nFrom falling in love with you
\nIt would be no problem
\nIf the singular were in use
\nBut in your case it's the plural
\nThat is causing me my mind to lose!<\/p>\n
Please help me, will you help me
\nI don't know what to do
\nIt's not just one Indonesian
\nBut the whole bang lot of you
\nEvery hand I shake every smile I see
\nEvery laugh I share everyone I greet
\nI stagger, I swoon, I crumple, I fall
\nInto a jelly heap<\/p>\n
Please help me, will you help me
\nCan you tell me what to do?
\nI fall in love on every corner
\nEvery day anew
\nYou're so sexy and delicious
\nPassionate, outrageous
\nIntelligent, good-looking and good cooks too
\nAnd I want the world to share in my discovery
\nAt the same time I want to keep you all just for me<\/p>\n
My friends think I've gone crazy
\nMy friends think I've gone mad
\n'Cos I'm always getting on a plane
\nFor Indonesia land<\/p>\n
Please help me, will you help me
\nI don't know what to do
\nI know I'm not the first or last
\nTo fall headlong over heels for you
\nAnd they can call me what they like
\nI don't care
\nIndo Groupy, Indohag, Indonesian Handbag!<\/p>\n
But my government's suspicious
\nWants to keep us estranged
\nThey know you're so irresistible
\nWe'd all soon be engaged<\/p>\n
My government is scared
\nOf a terrorist attack
\nBut the only terror that I have
\nIs of never coming back!<\/p>\n
Please help me, will you help me
\nI don't know what to do
\nI've fallen, seriously fallen
\nFor the whole bang lot of you!<\/p>\n
So when you see me standing on the street
\nWith tears in my eyes
\nI'm not sad, I'm just happy
\nMy dreams to realize
\nTo finally meet a people
\nSo generous and kind
\nWho stimulate my body and excite my mind
\n(I had asked god to send me one new lover
\nAnd now I have 200 million new friends to discover!)<\/p>\n
And there's only one question, now I have to ask
\nDear Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, God, Buddha
\nAm I dreaming?
\nIf so, please make this dream last!<\/p>\n
And be careful what you wish for
\nYou just might get it!<\/p>\n
-- Indonesia, 2005<\/p>\n
Published in Indozine 1: Indonesian Handbag, Indosongs &
\nIndopoems 04\/05, Jan Cornall:August 2005. Permission for
\npublication in The Jakarta Post granted by author.<\/p>",
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