S'poreans asked to name their favourite quote from poet, Lang Leav, chicken nuggets somehow won

Upsize.

Nyi Nyi Thet | November 22, 2016, 01:23 PM

Lang Leav is a poet of some fame.

Here is how a profile by A-List described her.

If you’ve ever loved or lost, yearned or let go, you’ll find yourself somewhere in Lang Leav’s poetry.

Her poems definitely do carry tones of loss and love.

Here are some snippets of her work.

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Beautiful right?

It was probably these emotional canyons that book publisher, Penguin, wished to shine the spotlight on when it held a poll for Singaporean readers to choose their favourite quote.

So what emotionally devastating sentence did we choose?

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Chicken nuggets.

Now we looked through Lang Leav's extensive bibliography, and not once in her melodramatic prose did she mention chicken nuggets.

Hoping to find something like this.

"Do you have chicken nuggets?" I ask.

In your hesitation I found my answer.”

But there was no such line.

The other chosen quotes are also not really related to Leav.

Here are the top 3.

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#tetek

Some quotes were more popularly associated with President elect Trump.

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Or a more local politician

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Thumbs up mannnn!

Others went the nationalistic route.

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And of course, the perennial favourite.

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Which doesn't really make a lot of sense, since we aren't renaming Lang Leav, but there you go.

Whatever the favourite quote turns out to be, one thing is for certain, there are currently not enough poems about chicken nuggets.

 

All photos from Penguin Books SG's Facebook.

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