Para el Espanol Sacerdote

i
stand outside
a Seville church

son
of a
culture, left behind.

my
heart quickens
at the salida

hands
tighten around
the carried paso

as
much a
Spaniard as anyone

yet
an Indio
just the same.

Milosovich Repents

Marcos:
Slobodan
comes from
the dark side

Aquino:
free
from his
mortal coil's demons

Marcos:
to
begin dealing
with his conscience

Aquino:
how
do you
repent, pay debt?

Marcos:
I
speak with
all I've killed.

America & Sex

Marcos:
Americans!
so uptight
about sex. SEX!!!

Aquino:
Oh,
is America
at war again?

Marcos:
Yes!
Afghanistan, Iraq,
who's next tomorrow?

Aquino:
Americans
better start
masturbating with vibrators

Marcos:
big
dildos for
everyone! For Free!

Aquino:
the
middle-east shrinks
from postponed orgasms.

Cherry Blossoms

outside
my window
cherry blossoms bloom

Eating Eternity

crack
the balot
at the flat.

gently
remove shells
from eternity's truth.

in
three moves:
suck… bite… bite.

Twenty minutes to Perfection

twenty
minute(s)
to cooked perfection.

twenty-eight
days for
pecking, strutting ambulation.

just
a fraction
for aphrodisiac construction.

Floating Balot

two
out of
twelve. that's all.

to
float, to
fly, nearly impossible.

why?
why only
some, not all?

Balut-na-ku

*Ruminations on a Pin@y lifestyle using the haynaku form.*

how
long before
it explodes? Boom!

flying,
swimming debris
of duck embryos

just
a careless
look at time.

birthdays

M:
miss
the days
when I aged

A:
when
everyone made
a terrible fuss

M:
ice
cream cradled
between lips, tongue

A:
candles
glowing for
a moth's notice

M;
miss
the mortality,
the everyday changes.

Pumpkins

Marcos:
what
is a
jack of lantern

Aquino:
just
a vegetable
without its insides

Marcos:
and
they carve
vegetables into monsters?

Aquino:
apparently
the world
can't get enough.