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"She is no magic, She is a dark spell composed in hell." "Smile, Smile even when you're gonna fucking die because there's glory in it" "Somehere, Somehow in all of us there exist a madness" Poison and Antidote is a collection of illustrated poems penned by the prolific Hansen Ng, divided into sections varying in the spectrum between subtle and raw. While reading them, one gets to explore the realms of sensuality, pain, madness and love. One should not read this expecting conventional structures or rhythms, but this doesn't detract from it's value of poetry. The core essence of the lyric lies in being present in a moment and intensifying it. "Poison & Antidote is a tribute to a woman's beauty and a celebration of sensuality. The powers a woman can have over the young poet with a deep sense of imagination and feeling is expressed with fine brave words, taking the reader on a series of vivid scenes playing right before our eye." -Neitele Mero “Reading Hansen's poem is like visiting an art gallery” -Oinam Anand