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The night you chose to erase what we had— devices burned like pages; warmth slipped from our hands— you spurned yourself, blind to my incessant weeping, and left me aching enough to sink into numbness. Five years past the remains,…
Sa ngalan ng Ama, ng Anak, at ng aking sariling kapangyarihan. Amen. Panginoon, pinagmasdan ko kaninang umaga ang mga makasalanan Mong anak mula sa bintana ng aking sasakyan—pawang uod ang kanilang mga aninong gumagapang at naglilipana sa kalsadang ipinagawa ko.…
Nais ko sanang tapusin ang lahat, kaya lumabas ako nang dis-oras. Baka kailangan ko lang matauhan, o baka naman mapadpad sa hindi ko nakabihasnan. Una kong nasakyan ay bus. Mahinhing itinuro ng konduktor ang piraso ng paunawa: “Kami ay…
Mother, I think my insides are decomposing politely. Can you not smell it, or have you grown so used to my rot that you call it “obedience”? Mother, I’ve become quite a candle burning, devouring, unbecoming so quietly in the…
do you think her light is borrowed—something siphoned from the sun before dusk swallows the walls? (look closer. stay longer. watch carefully.) She is no candle trembling at the mercy of wind; She is brightness after it has already burned,…
Morning smoke billows through cracks of broken windows, and the air tastes of iron—like rusty old coins on the tongue. Even the wind tires of threading through the same narrow streets, brushing past faces that have forgotten the taste of…
I was on my second set of lateral pull-ups when I heard an idiot say to another idiot: “I was having intercourse with my girlfriend when she started her period. I dumped that tramp immediately.” Dear nameless dude at the…
Tahimik. Iyan ang kalagayan ng kanilang tahanan ngayon. Kung ikukumpara sa ibang bahay—punô ng dekorasyon, umaapaw sa liwanag, at umaalingawngaw ang tawanan—parang mahirap paniwalaang sasapit na ang Pasko. Isang buntong hininga ang kumawala sa labi ni Miracle. “Nauna lang naman…