culture industry

on pavements








on pavements






i didn't spoon you

in my mouth
like seashell pasta
in my day-old soup


like appropriated
excess in
a consumerist
uber-concerned-only-of-the-profit-motive

capitalist society




have i tried soup du jours yet?




well, robots soon
shall make them

and marconi shall
still play the mamba/mambo


paper & recyclable bags,


all kinds of bagism


[littered] on the floor








Author's Notes/Comments: 

Dedicated to R.

Parang Turumpo (in Tagalog language)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parang Trumpo

 

 

 

Paikut-ikutin mo
ang sarili sa
gusot at gulo

 

 

Hinayaan ka nila
na ika'y mahilo.

 

 

Sana ay huwag
ka namang
malito.

 

 

Ganiyan nga ba
ang buhay sa
mundo?

 

 

Gigisingin ka
ng mga ipuipo.

 

 

Yun ay kung
paparating na
—ang mga

matitinding bagyo!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Things That You Couldn't Take

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Things That You Couldn't Take

 

 

 

 

Don't shut out
the sterile world

 

 

Maybe there isn't
an ounce that
they understood
your word

 

 

Or you, perhaps,
are looking
for 'the forest
for the trees'

 

 

And have also
not yet understood
the pertinence
of the bees

 

 

Realize that the
earth isn't fake,

 

There are just things
that you couldn't take!

 

 

Remember that awful
cake that destroyed
your teeth

 

 

Without those doctors
you'd be toothless,
don't you think?

 

 

Talk to the mirror
if you think it knows
the answer to your query

 

 

But not, yet again,
love dark money
or trust ChatGPT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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untitled (true music)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

untitled (former working title: true music)

 

 

 

 

as if one have
all the value judgements

in this—

 

tribulation period,

 

 

if only wind
instruments were
invented to share
a message, —

 

would souls
truly speak
in the present moment?

 

 

time & its insignificance

 

 

 

 

like metanoia
—a paradigm shift—
suddenly, anxiety
changing one's drift

 

 

 

 

from kabbalah
to phonetics
linguistics, semantics
hermeneutics of the Torah

 

from ancient

to the renaissance

what more can
one presage?

 

 

 

neither—

 

 

 

 

if a believer

prays to a false God

[of an othered religion]

permitted but

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wronged sainthood

 

 

 

 

 

senile syllogisms & oblivion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

—to one's own company (original working title: the music you play)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

—to one's own company
(original working title: the music you play)

 

 

 

 

are these leaves pure green tea,

to steep in a cup

designed so quaintly?

 

 

i know a type of

music, but not all things

jazzy

because there

could be drill rap music

which they—call—

classy

 

 

it's not a pretty picture
anymore for a degenerate

generation,

i think transnationalism

somehow creates a
nation

 

 

i just hope we don't fall
victim to this wake of
insanity—

to be foisted, with gradual

influence—to one's own

company—

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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kulturang banyaga (in Tagalog language)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

kulturang banyaga

 

 

 

 

kulturang

       banyaga

kulturang

       kahanga-hanga

 

aking natagpuan

       sa 'di kalayuan

 

akin siya,

       akin siya!

 

magpakailanman—

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the earnest flower of hinterland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the earnest flower of hinterland

 

 

 

 

can we escape this

       dystopian land?

if only touching hands

      would help this dreamland

 

most of us have planned

      for the morrow

though we still misunderstand

      the earnest flower of hinterland—

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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thing theory








thing theory

 

 

 

all are just these props


our heartbeats untranslated


iconoclasm








Author's Notes/Comments: 

Reedited 06.23.2023 (Notes/Comments box entry was reedited for misspelled/mistyped/misconstructed words, incl. one in the hashtags (a misconstructed word "ultural..");01.02.2023 [22:25]

 

I momentarily added only three hashtags (upon glancing and reviewing some older poems while posting newer entries, despite already having similarly grouped hashtags, eg. cultural variation.  They are the following:  cultural variances, cultural transformation, cultural variance.