1.
The gods who walked
on white feet
Are back in their barren country.
2.
Back in their islands
the barbarians who raped your sister
are erecting towers
on borrowed blueprints.
3.
And the teachers of democracy,
tired of progress and surplus goods,
are mocking God in Vietnam.
4.
And we?
We who tore the G-string
from the brown body?
5.
Of course, we are snoring
the sun
hot on our face.
6.
Ha-ha-ha-ha!
Let the holocaust come.
Sleep is a beautiful country
under the coconut tree.
Philippine Free Press, August 12, 1967
*One of the poems included in the expanded version of "Umayka Manen, Gangganaet/Come Again, Stranger," an anthology of Ilokano and English poems written by the blogger. With critical introduction by Dr. Aurelio Solver Agcaoili of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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