A REFRAIN, LORENZO, A REFRAIN
A. Two years later, the serpent's
head came out
of the hole of a beach: the woman
had gone to bed with a young man
named Mark.
O, how she lies:
Here lies Eli, she lies.
B. They deleted names
In list of Bucaneg Awardees,
They who lied about the money
from Hawaii,
from the US Mainland
from Ilocos poverty
For a house of memory
In Suso, by the sea,
In the town called Sta. Maria
In the north country.
And the wrinkled widow,
Lamenting for her beloved Godofredo,
Bears witness:
What a mess,
What rottenness!
"Perfidia"
sung by Linda Ronstadt
"with a sad lament my dreams/are faded
like a broken melody, while the gods
of love look down and laugh, at what
romantic fools we mortals be.."
-courtesy Mayette Cantos,
FB, June 20, 2011
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