ANALYZING THE (1) "NEVER AGAIN " SYNDROME AND THE (2) ANTI-MARCOS MONOLOGUE OF HATE AND ANGER

Syndrome, from the Greek word "concurrence," is a set or group of manifestations and symptoms that 'together are characteristic of a specific disorder, disease' that could be physical or mental or both in combination.

The manifestations have been with them for the past 30 years after the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.  They are smart or cunning, brilliant, brimming with ideas, but for them to repeat these spiels again and again for years speak volumes of minds that refuse to listen to other arguments. Except, of course, their "never again" one-sided narrative of martial law, which is actually a monologue sponsored by the Yellow Media and the Aquino-Cojuangco oligarchy. 

When a person is focused on one thing alone, on one thing alone, he or she does not hear other voices, other things vibrating and pulsating with life.

He or she does not know that there are flowers surrounding him or her. 

They can not smell the fragrance and the beauty that surrounds them in all its glory. 

They can not see poverty and squalor and oppression that have bedeviled the country since they dislodged what they call the dictator from Malacanang.

All they see is Marcos. Marcos in front of them. Marcos behind them. Marcos to the left of them. Marcos to the right of them. Marcos above them.

1.The past and the future are illusions; they don't exist in reality
2.The past should serve as illuminations for the future

ANTHOLOGY OF ILOKANO AND ENGLISH POETRY

The author with the late Kerima Polotan, one of the country's better essayists. (Late 1970s photo)

The Sinking Roman Catholic Church Belltower in Laoag City, Philippines

Contents of the expanded version of "Umayka Manen, Ganggannaet/Come Again, Stranger"
                                            by Peter La.Julian

Critical Introduction by Dr. Aurelio Solver Agcaoili of the University of Hawaii at Manoa

Ilokano:

1. Dung-aw III                                              16.
2. Dung-aw II (edited0                               17. Sika a Naumbi a Kanta (new)
3. Ravenna                                                  18. Anastacia, Kasaom ti Bulan (new)
4. Ti Sungbat                                              19. Kelleng (new)
5. Rabii idiay Gamu                                   20. Samtoy Elehia (new)
6.Sapsapulenka                                         21. Dagiti Litania ti Namnama ken                       7.Panaas(new)                                                                  Pannakapaaymi (new)
8.                                                                 22. Nagsaoak Ngem Dika Dimngeg (new)
9.Dagiti Kuddakudda (new)                        23. Ti Babai iti Minuyongan (new)
10.                                                                24.Denggemto Sadi Langit (new)
11. Dagiti Saning-i iti Sierra (new)                       25. Dagidi (new)
12.Sarsarita idi Ugma (new)                        26. Ti Maikadua nga Iyaay (new)
13. Ti Kabusor                                             27. Dagiti Sirmata iti Isusuknal (new)
14. Panaguummong                                     28. Dagiti Ipalagip dagiti Saguday (new)
15.Iti Daytoy a Pagiliam                              29. Elehia ken ni Arturo M. Padua (new)

30. Adan (new)
31. Ti Mata ti Lubong (new)
32. Lipaten nga Intanemda a Bannuar (new)
33. Padsan: Maysa a Sirmata

English:

1. Renata, Hold the World Together
2.Notes to Ben Castillo
3. In Your Country
4. Suddenly, It's Evening
5. The Massacre of Journalists and other Political Perfidies (new)
6.Today Arrives the Fall of Doloroso Dans
7. Where Have All the Flowers of Edsa Gone? (new)
8. Authors of Perfidia (A Refrain, Lorenzo, a refrain) (new)
9. Elegy
10, Notes to Josefino Zabala, Ex-Future Nationalist Writer
11. Come Again, Stranger, and Discover These Isles
12. Filipino Sunday Catholics (new)
13. Ethiopia in Negros, But not Vice-Versa
14. The Last Day of Wintry Weather (new)
15. The Saddest Poems (new)
16, Native Crabs in American Work Places(new)
17.  A War of Long Ago (new)

Part of the introduction of Pelagio Alcantara, former regional director of the San Fernando City based Philippine Information Agency, in the first edition, will be included and will be printed after the English poems

The book, in soft cover, was published by Saranay Publicationd of Mr. Ariel Tabag. It will be launched during the Nakem Conference at Pangil, Currimao, Ilocos Norte on May 23-25, 2016. Dr. Aurelio Solver Agcaoili, sparkplug of Nakem Conferences has given his "imprimatur". I hope to make contact with Dr. Alegria Tan-Visaya, one of the leaders of the Pangil Nakem Conference.