I’m not a Fish

I’d like to be a bird in my next life – a langaylangayan (swallow) and then a sacred ibis, if I could choose.

Photo by Ruel Laurenciana, taken on a famous bridge in New York.

Being a fish would be good too, one day. But they say a fish gets caught by its mouth. Or an industrial net these days, I guess, monstrous and species-ending.

I’m not a fish for now. But it’s a bit like being caught by your own big mouth when you are interviewed.

I was given the space to blabber, and blabber I did. Prolific US-based author Eileen Tabios is partly to blame. The 16th issue of HALO-HALO REVIEW features a post-book release interview of yours truly.

I’m not promising anything. I just keep dreaming while doing what I can in the time that I have.

So many are robbed of that chance, particularly in Palestine.