August 2011
13 posts
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Tongue Tip
I place our debates
under a magnifying glass
and cut you with the shards.
Or burn you and then blame
the sun for rearing its head
like some kind of eavesdropper.
When the throat runs dry,
I can only spit out dust clouds.
They blind and make you wheeze
and what follows is a silence
that fades in after a roll
of damply muffled thunder.
I can only move mountains.
I can’t shift the weight...
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Sister
I am a soldier
You are a nun
Hanging a rosary on the rifle’s mouth
Eyes like playground marbles
Wrinkles deeper than holes in my contract
More placid than a sparrow on a shaking power line
Because you know the storm will pass
And I am bound by laws beyond my control
I lower my arms
And you call me a monster
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Marketing a Eulogy
Yellow ribbons
Littered across the city
As posters, as license plates, as statement tees
As cellular phones, as arm straps, as ballers
As dog tags, as watches, as perfume
Kind words and sincere condolences for ₱999.95
Bubbling pus
Along the edges of a gaping wound
I don’t know what democracy is
But it sure looks like it can be sold!
By the people!
For the people!
Buy the people!
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Sawdust
Many tend to forget that it doesn’t take a Christian to quote scripture.
Matthew 7:3-5
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you...
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If There Is A God
If there is a god
If intelligent design is real
If we are truly created in the image and likeness of perfection
Let the proof be the fact
that I was created for you,
and that you were created for me.
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The Top 5 Most Useless Questions Asked When...
5. What’s your favourite colour?
Unless you’re both either Information Design majors or racists, a preference for a certain hue won’t determine the strength of your relationship, nor will such a tidbit ever help you when things go awry. “Why’re you still angry? I bought you blue roses!”
4. What’s your Zodiac sign?
A tried and tested favourite among frat boys, this advance is only effective when...
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Filipino Time
Which is basically the Nationalistic way of saying “late for everything.”
Take an event. A show at the local bar, for example. The event page tells you it starts at 9:00 pm. I’m the only one promptly there at 9:15. More people arrive at 10:00, a crowd gathers at 10:25, and the band starts setting up at 10:30. I spend those 45 minutes trying to not look like an awkward...
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I'm really bad with first impressions.
So uh, hi. Yeah.
I’m Elijah Pascual, 18 years old, male, studying BFA Creative Writing in Ateneo De Manila University. I like stress-eating, Imogen Heap, Pokemon, and circle pits. My favorite author’s Haruki Murakami, and other writers I enjoy include Mark Haddon, Chuck Palahniuk, Zadie Smith, Miguel Syjuco, and Franz Kafka. No, I’m not a Harry Potter kid.
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