Pukengkeng is a slang coined from two Tagalog words: puke, which means vagina and kerengkeng, a woman of loose morals. O-K. I’m not making a very good first impression here. Let me try this again… (read more)
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
injustice
It’s been nine days since they took you away.
And it’s amazing how I’m still alive.
Or am I really?
Routine is for robots.
So, maybe I’ve become one.
Existing, yet lifeless.
—ii—
It’s the second week…
The circles around my eyes belie the smile plastered on my face.
So, how long is it going be, Big Man?
I ask at night, when my slumber is as elusive as your freedom.
No more tears. Just indescribable sadness.
—ii—
Oppression exists.
Here. Now.
We’re all slaves in ties and stilettos.
—ii—
You’re back.
We kissed and I could taste our tears.
Five hundred eighty-four days together – twenty of which they took away from us.
They will pay. In time. They will pay.