I Hate Found Poems and I Do Not Claim This One

I Hate Found Poems and I Do Not Claim This One

words by Gabriel Cardinoza, formatting by Jim Pascual Agustin

Five-year-old Danica Mae

Garcia, who was felled

last week by a bullet intended

for her grandfather, was buried

at the public cemetery here

on Wednesday. Some 150 relatives

and neighbors joined the funeral

procession. They waded in floodwater

that rose by half a meter

on a 100-meter stretch

of the road from Danica’s house

at Barangay Mayombo beside Pantal River,

which had been swollen

due to monsoon rain

and high tide in the past days.

No government official showed up

at the burial of the collateral damage

in President Duterte’s

war on illegal drugs.

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