It was a marshmallow
Pillow to begin with.
Why then these dreams of shrieks
Ringing beneath wholesome,
Wholehearted, oh! wholesale,
Giggles of children? Why
The ice whip of cream, blood
Milked by the beast mothers?
Drink nothing. First explain
The endless recurrence
Of silence with the full,
Tasteless faith of being
Awake. Red and quiet,
Ka Fort, in old peace, rest.
The bullets in the milk
Will never permit sleep.
Set 30, 2005
Set 27, 2005
Set 22, 2005
Ano ngayon?
"Pakyu ka! Ano ngayon kung makata ka?" sabay ngarat ng batang kalye na inaasahan kong may lalabas na uhog sa ilong pero wala. Gusgusin pa rin naman siya at maliit, maaari pang bugbugin.
"'Lika nga rito, nasaan magulang mo, 'nyetang bata to." Pati mga nananahimik na naglalakad sa kalye, binabalahura. Hindi ko naman siya inaano.
"Pakyu mo!"
"Oy, magulang mo! Sira ka?"
"Ikaw ang magsabi sa 'kin."
"'Lika nga rito, nasaan magulang mo, 'nyetang bata to." Pati mga nananahimik na naglalakad sa kalye, binabalahura. Hindi ko naman siya inaano.
"Pakyu mo!"
"Oy, magulang mo! Sira ka?"
"Ikaw ang magsabi sa 'kin."
Set 19, 2005
Ago 24, 2005
Mabuhayland
You are a country
the color of my skin.
They call you mother,
or father, or lover,
but I call you country.
I call you flesh,
and I've got this idea
- and I've got this idea
full in the stomach
like a punch - that you
were something that
came before I did, yes,
but also, that I ought
to work hard to push you
out as one gut-ripping,
blood-dripping giant
little child with the color
of everyone I've ever loved.
You are a country
the color of my skin.
They call you mother,
or father, or lover,
but I call you country.
I call you flesh,
and I've got this idea
- and I've got this idea
full in the stomach
like a punch - that you
were something that
came before I did, yes,
but also, that I ought
to work hard to push you
out as one gut-ripping,
blood-dripping giant
little child with the color
of everyone I've ever loved.
Ago 23, 2005
For a Healthy Constitution
Ate Glow, Go! Grow
wise with our years
and pick - for peace -
a deep blue dress,
royal and true.
Ate Glow, Grow. Go
shake the right hands,
shake the hands left-
over and then
make that good call.
Grow, Ate Glow. Go
give us PR.
Grow in the dark
mother-pearl teeth
for all our sakes.
Go, Ate Glow, Grow.
Up that ante,
raise them stakes high!
Then take us, take
us right down them.
Go Grow, Ate. Glow
red as hunger.
We're not just votes;
we can take you
down, count on it.
Ate Glow, Go! Grow
wise with our years
and pick - for peace -
a deep blue dress,
royal and true.
Ate Glow, Grow. Go
shake the right hands,
shake the hands left-
over and then
make that good call.
Grow, Ate Glow. Go
give us PR.
Grow in the dark
mother-pearl teeth
for all our sakes.
Go, Ate Glow, Grow.
Up that ante,
raise them stakes high!
Then take us, take
us right down them.
Go Grow, Ate. Glow
red as hunger.
We're not just votes;
we can take you
down, count on it.
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