POEM IN REVISED VERSION OF "UMAYKA MANEN, GANGGANNAET/COME AGAIN, STRANGER"

     The revised edition of "Umayka Manen, Ganggannaet/Come Again, Stranger, " an anthology of Ilokano and English poems authored by the writer, is coming off the press this year. The introduction was made by Dr. Aurelio Solver Agcaoili of the University of Hawaii in Manoa. A native of Laoag City,Dr. Agcaoili is also a writer in four languages: his native Ilokano, Tagalog, English and Spanish.

     Here's one of the poems included in said anthology:

     The Massacre of Journalists and Other Political Perfidies


     The inner power could not err
     Quote deny not the little woman unquote.
     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.