AGA × WOLFGANG

I

ako
ang daigdig
i am the night

ako
ang tula
i am the day

ako
ang daigdig
ang tula
i am the light gone astray

ako
ang daigdig
ng tula
ang tula
that’s in your bones

that is i 
ang walang maliw na ako
ang walang kamatayang ako
i am the taker of souls

II

listen
ako
ang daigdig ng me
my child

i’ll feed your 
tula ng daigdig

free your 
malayang ako

matapat sa sarili
sa aking daigdig
ng tula
if you dare

ako
ang tula to this manner of beast

III

ang damdaming
malaya
is our lair

ang larawang
buhay
is our lair

ang buhay
na walang hanggan
is our lair

ang damdamin
ang larawan
ang buhay
is our lair

damdamin
larawan
buhay
tula
evil 
is our lair

DEPED

Agon

hindi—ngiti

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“Anak ka talaga ng Tatay mo” | Mary Joyce A. Bernal

“As a child, I was fascinated by the absence of the upper portion of his finger. I would ask him a lot of questions: How did the accident happen? What was the machine that chopped it off like? Can he fold it? Will a nail still grow? I can only remember the laugh that would escape his lips preceding the answers I have long forgotten. Other people have not been as fascinated as I was. There were some occasions when people would flinch at the sight of what remained of his right index finger, refusing to let their eyes land on it a second longer. When I demonstrated to a friend how my father’s right hand looked, he backed up in shock.”

Maaaring ituloy ang “Anak ka talaga ng Tatay mo” sa PDI Youngblood.

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Kaka-gradweyt lang ni MJ mula sa programang BA Communication Arts degree ng Unibersidad ng Pilipinas Los Baños. 

“No Juan chooses to be poor” | Darryl Thomas O. Gonzalez

“Perhaps a major reason for the trouble that I have shared is because I was born to a lower middle class family, and I never really had a taste of the affluent life. My parents are incredibly hardworking and responsible, but they could never land high-paying jobs because neither of them was able to finish college. My father only reached second-year college, while my mother could not complete even her elementary education. The primary reason was that education was expensive, and their lack of resources to continue held them back.”

Please continue “No Juan chooses to be poor” in PDI Youngblood.

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Darryl recently graduated with a BA Communication Arts degree from the University of the Philippines Los Baños. He frequently contributes to POP! Jr.