Today

Go around
a good friend's heart
on a bike.

Today

Allow the rain
to keep you company.

Believe in god again,
for that brief time
between stepping under the sun
and feeling its heat.

Going Local

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/weekend/04-26-2008/dog.html

Today

Leave your head
at the desk
and dance.

Smile
without your face on.

Laugh
without a mouth.

Feel the wind
going through your hair
without your hair
and without the wind.

Speak
Speak
even if the words
are coming out of surprising places.

Today

Once a week,
switch the assigned places
at the dinner table
and listen to yourself finally speak.

Watch your parents
eat a bag of popcorn for dinner
and keep yourself from shouting
"Gerardo and Chita! Hoy! Husto na na!"

Today

Look at the mirror
and mistake yourself
for a musclewoman
putting on make-up.

Ride a scooter and imagine
you're riding a harley.

Ride a harley and pretend
you're riding a scooter

and be surprised why people
are staring at you
the way a woman in a bouffant
is surprised that she's
still beautiful.

Today

Imagine legions of the dead coming to life
Imagine legions of the living suddenly dead
Take a glass of water
and observe yourself waver
between thirst and contentment.

Do a favor
that's not really a favor
to a stranger
that's not really a stranger.

Imagine the daughter you could've been.
Be a son.

Today

Bitch around
about someone stupid
changing the face of your kid.


Make a promise
never to be proper
ever again.

Never give good meat
to a fucking vegetarian.

Kainin nyo na nga yang mga gulay nyo, punyeta.

Today

Wave your hands
at an imagined
unrequited love.

Don't stop until
he turns a corner,

or you lose hope,
or a fruit vendor
calls out your name
instead of mango, mango, mango.

Today

I spend the day with that 19-year old
version of myself who ran across the field
in the middle of the night, flew straight into
a wall of petals, just before he was going
to lose his voice.

Today

I measure myself against a tree.
Then I measure myself
against our family's marble floor.
Then I hide behind the white living
room curtains and pretend
I am two years old
and small enough to not speak,
and get lost.

Today

Go to your father's garden
and pick the invisible flower
that only you have seen.

:-)

Changing Faces

Shifting gears. Looking back.
Wanting so desperately to change the bed sheets of an old old room.
But sleeping in it, nonetheless.
And dreaming.
And waking up to a summer garden that's insistent, insistent with love.
Love! hahaha

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/weekend/04-12-2008/dog.html

Let's Dance!

Long overdue. Here goes!
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/weekend/03-29-2008/dog.html

(Sorry, I still don't know how to link! hahaha)