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Thursday, July 30, 2009

BUTCHER (for Jovito Palparan)

In the service of "who"?
the dying statistics of
mangled tortured bodies
and cracked skulls ...
our cries pierce the sky
as hollow projectiles
stab you and silence
the tongue that is so
used in wagging death

Sin-o ako (who am I)?

-- native cook of literary dessert -- a bard yearning to break out -- an Ilonggo waving chunks of muscovado