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“...My father, degreed and educated
in Luzon was just another cow to be punched around,
each day I could tell when he came home
another man mad fun of his tongue, it just wouldn’t
go the right way today, or yesterday, or tomorrow.
Few and fine and park and pickle and five and fuck,
they were only words but they meant the difference
between not good and never good enough in America.”
— Dec 27, 2018 11:57PM
in Luzon was just another cow to be punched around,
each day I could tell when he came home
another man mad fun of his tongue, it just wouldn’t
go the right way today, or yesterday, or tomorrow.
Few and fine and park and pickle and five and fuck,
they were only words but they meant the difference
between not good and never good enough in America.”
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Tonight we'll sup
on fairy tales:
a dish of boiled
gabi, whose leaves resemble
blue-green hearts
fed on rain, on waters
of darkest jealousy;
plumes of red labuyo
ginger roots that once
were nuggets of gold.
— Nov 16, 2018 09:29PM
on fairy tales:
a dish of boiled
gabi, whose leaves resemble
blue-green hearts
fed on rain, on waters
of darkest jealousy;
plumes of red labuyo
ginger roots that once
were nuggets of gold.
