THE SLAUGHTER OF MINDANAO JOURNALISTS

THE SLAUGHTER of Mindanao Journalists and Other Political Perfidies  

by Andres Miguel Pasion
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inner sanctum could not err 
quote deny not the little woman unquote
and the backhoe was a farmer
plowing bloody seeds into the brown earth
The newspaper version was a pain
thing from Lethe
like the eternal scourge
like the paradoxes of thieves
     in the apex of their content
like the dream echo of a surreal world.

15 December 2012, Oscariz, Ramon, Isabela