Food For Thoughts

By Matthew Lee

My deepest, darkest thoughts that are sometimes deemed too explicit and vulgar that runs through my mind but can't be said out loud which can only be put into poetry. This chapbook contains food themed chapters but it focuses on one's fleeting thoughts and stories in one's daily life that one can relate to. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Matthew Lee
• Release date: May 18, 2024
• ISBN: 9786299951605

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Acknowledgements

A special thanks to all my inspirations and muses, the good, the bad and the ugly, but especially Jennifer Chai, the surrogate mother of Food For Thoughts as she is practically the reason for Food For Thoughts’ birth as she gave me the motivation enough to show it to the world. My gratitude goes to modern day artists like Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, and especially Taylor Swift who I’m a big fan of for inspirations and pop culture references. Thank you to Sandra Khoo for her marvellous illustration for the chapbook cover. Of course not forgetting God who helped me through the tough times, my family and friends, whom all of them made this one way or another possible.

Disclaimer

This is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are the products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Where real-life historical persons appear, the situations, incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are entirely fictional and are not intended to depict actual events or to change the entirely fictional nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

Introduction

Food For Thoughts is my writing to change fate kind of chapbook like it was my lifeline to make things better in my life. Since it is my first chapbook, it is like my first child to me and I’m like a first time dad so very proud of it. I’m glad with this chapbook; I get to tick it off my bucket list of being an author. But I won’t stop here. As an aspiring writer and a poet, I can only dream and envy those who can write for a living. After a decade of being stifled in a corporate career, I lost touch with writing, but it has always lived within me. Since I always loved good food (who doesn’t), this chapbook came to me naturally when I asked myself what should the title of my first chapbook be. From there, the rest was history. After coming up with the title, I drew inspirations from my life and the emotions I was going through at the moment and came up with various food related chapters in which I try to capture using words and poetry as much