LUNANGON

LUNANGON

Monday, January 18, 2010

Farmers marching towards Manila

Farmers .. tillers of my land
far away on
the move, marching
chanting their voice hoarse
trying to crack the glass
heavens for genuine change
and peace that is so
elusive in the present dictatorial
regime of the puppet
president

glued to the boob tube
wishing I am home

the great multitude of my
people raising their angry fists
defying the State that's never
for them ... for their children
and my own ... for all brown skinned
indios, peasants, proletariats
and the working class ... wherever we
may be ...

the doll with the throbbing black mole
must be brought dowN


rey

Sin-o ako (who am I)?

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