Amigo Warfare Quotes

“I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mine
It will be a holiday of the senses”
― Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare

“Because you brand our tongues
with silence. Because you watch us
in fear, even while we sing.”
― Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare

“I would like to write a suicide note in three and a half
languages
and travel south on a Thursday towards
some form of life outside of earth”
― Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare

“In spaces too small for light
to crawl I'll hide everything I own.
I'll keep you there for safety.
I'll build a shelter for your
fears. I'll be your own
suicide bomber, a
satellite in the
dwindling
orbits, a
mortal
Om.”
― Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare

“My angels are jellyfish,
electric, nearly invisible,
armed with poisoned harpoons.

My archangels are yellow tang.
They feed on sunlight.
They speak through color.
Anything in their paths turns blind.”
― Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare

“Fuck words, nothing spoken

comprehends the defiantly ephemeral.
I take my incompleteness with the rest, an exile

in any language.”
― Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare

“The monsoon came, six months
of infinite rain. The towns I once knew
were wiped clean,
and everyone said it was God
revising his poem.”
― Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare

“I hope you never get tired of waiting for the world to come to its senses.”
― Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare

“The homosexuals fist fuck in the steam room
while the janitor isn't looking. He calls
and never speaks but you can hear Oahu rain.
Press your ear against the glass and heart another
life
not happening, the soundless blur of snow
on the plasma screen.”
― Eric Gamalinda, Amigo Warfare