Monday, April 25, 2005

Pre-Bday Nausea

said i,

rearrange me til i’m sane/let me speak before I go maimed/i’m too tired to play this game/release me, i don’t want fame.

i don’t know if you’re aware/I suffer and i’m scared/I always receive a cold response/if you may, help me at once.

My wings are clipped/my confidence at all time dip/rescue me, give me a lift/before i go flip.

Thursday, April 21, 2005

Before sunset – poetry in motion

Putting passion for action – that’s one of the lines blurted by Jesse in this poem-turned-movie that sticks to my mind. Wow this movie is so simple but so beautiful! Indeed beauties and importance lie in small things, like bringing pencils to impoverished schools in Mexico, or watching how ants pass by, as Ammu and her lover observed in God of Small Things. This movie transforms you as a participant in the relationship of two souls who struggled to keep the memory alive while simultaneously living at the present tense. But when the two met again, after nine years, memory has proved more toxic than the present and the spontaneous combustion of intensified, burning hearts cannot be controlled nor be subjected to logical interpretations! It's a love story that does away with mushy and hero-saves-the-heroine stuffs. It explores the seeming intricacies of life in cute ways – like the need to desire as opposed to liberating yourself from your desires as Buddhism preaches. Or we have innate characters, whether angst-ridden, cheerful or not. It explores fatalism without being preachy but as a possibility, when some events cannot be explained clearly, or why in heaven’s name two important events happen simultaneously you have to decide which one you will do and which will you drop instantly. And finally, it is explores the deepest contradiction in love without romanticzing it to the hilt. That is how to fit the past, which you try to relive everyday in your mind, to your present existence, when the haunting past knocks in your door and tries to become real (again). That is a mess – how to deal with your present commitments, responsibilities, etc. Good thing the movie did not attempt to answer that – and we have to explore these ourselves!

Eksenang Weekend

Halakhakan
Di magkamayan
Wento dito, wento duon
Wa paki sa langitngitan
Ng plastic, dilaw na upuan
Biglang katahimikan
SINGLE JOKER!

Haluan na naman
Umalingawngaw ang umpugan
Ng mga pitsang alipin
Ng mga kamay na ligong-ligo
Ng nikotin
O nikoting dinapuan ng kamay?
Tama na yan
Hagis na dice
Ayan…. BISAKLAT!

Tapos ang high
Tang-na, one-way ito
Puro dukot, parang cowboy
Na mabilis ang pagbunot
Sa bulsa.
Hagis muli, tabla muna
Biglang katahimikan
May anghel na dumaan
Kung itim o puti ang suot
Di ko alam

Biglang umentra ang miron
Sa bagong hiwalayan blues
Lahat ng version napag-usapan
Lahat ng alternatibo napagmunian
Daig pa ang sensitivity analysis
O comprehensive socio and economic behavioral study
Ng dumagundong ang lamesa
SYETE PARES!

Ano na naman? Malas ba sa bekata, wakali, kodli?
Baka kailangang balasahin muna
Tayo at ihi muna, baka sa susunod
Eskalera na ang paparating –
Sa kalaban, no joke pa!

Di man lang maka-espera

ISA NA DITO, MALAS AKO.

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Thirty

Am 30 and am deep shit
Am 30 but I’m in a snake pit

Trying to live a life
To rise above my own strife
Catching fire when coldness is sought
Submitting to the things I loathe

Am 30 and am deep shit
Am 30 but I’m in a snake pit
Am 30 and not my own boss
Am 30 but I’m lost

Trying to be a good family man
Be brave! Cowards be damned
Happiness for my wife and son
My resolve, my only stand

Am 30 and am deep shit
Am 30 but I’m in a snake pit
Am 30 and not my own boss
Am 30 but I’m lost
Am 30 am stressed struck
Am 30 but need my life back

Story of a Gen X (past)

A Gen X in Mabini drifted
Tried to embrace the norm
And be refreshingly reborn
Ended him more distorted

A Gen X metamorphosed into banker
Tried to be what society dictate
Swallowed pride to placate
Ended him more bitter

A Gen X enslaved by a tyrant
Appendage to the machine
Just to survive life’s spinning wheel
Ended his zest for recalcitrance

A Gen X running out of option
The world’s greatest oxymoron
Accepted being a pawn to his bank
A weasel that knows not to balk

A Gen X no more is a Gen X possuer
Like a recluse in a party
Like an atheist embracing the will of God
Like love bowing to reason
Like repression to exercise freedom
Like violence in defense of peace
Like me.

Monday, April 18, 2005

Damnation, Salvation

He said -

In my sleep
I trip
But creep
To keep
You.

When I wake
My heart ache
My life break
Cause your love is FAKE

Now crying in my bed
As you sheepishly wed
That man you said
Your childhood’s friend.
(Exorcise me from this fiend)

But.....

She said -

You’re too much to handle
You’re bourgeoisie upbringing bundled
You to them, away from my addled
Existence

You conform
I confront
The system –
Patay kung patay

Your life is a planned pathway
The untravelled road is my way
You sing the gibberish
I sing rock ‘n roll with hashish

My fucking friend I take comfort
Away from my fiancé of a robot
When he rescued me from the sea of boredom
(which I nearly drowned while you did nothing)
He led me to that path of freedom!

So you CAN’T understand my ploy
How I chose a good-for-nothing over you
He is a bum, an artist to himself he’s true
You will never understand me, indeed….. coño boy

.... And He said -

My bohemian existence was altered
The harmony of chaos shattered
When you appeared without warning
And stoked my cold heart to burning

You have your life, I have mine
You’re ensconced to a comfort life
I have my angst, I have my whine
All my life is battling the strife

But the street has been illuminated
By you where the sparkle originated
My hippie days are over
Angst forgotten, now I’m sober

Now I stand in the altar with you
Exchanging vows for a love so true
I can’t believe you forego comfort
For an artist who cannot support
(even the material aspects of his life!)

Freedom in hearse

Tears dropped from the sky
Rivers turned into acrid dry
The sun wailed and cried
The day my freedom died…..

The world releases a deafening laugh
When I chicken-out to its bluff

My success is my failure
I live in society’s allure

Not my own
Not my own…

This is a Faustian bargain
Can you buy my soul
To release from this pain
And rescue me as I fall.

5 Years

And he will not be back – Sugar Hiccup

The roots have deepened
Many events, histories happened
My sanity has been threatened
And my mind ceased to sharpen.

Have submitted myself to demigods
My freedom has been chain-clad
The price of our survival is my own blood
So sad, so sad.

Five years lapsed but am still here
Am I a masochist dear?
Or am I just being consumed by fear
Of how we’ll get by, not very clear.

Thursday, April 14, 2005

Golden Slumber

After fruitless days spent in fruitless pursuits, I am finally writing again in blog. Easter has come and gone, one of the greatest persons has come to terms with his mortality – at least in flesh but not in his deeds (which I am planning to write an article later), and I had my bouts of paranoia about my own mortality – yup, I got hospitalized just a week ago and succumbed to tonciloparyngitis (never mind the spelling). In 3 weeks I slipped in golden slumber, and I was not able to write anything – though I have so many things in mind. Maybe I just don’t have the medium. I don’t have a computer in my house since I rested for a week after my discharge from the hospital, but heck, there are lots of computer/internet cafes lurking in every street corner possible. Or I have been just been very busy serving as serf to my masters in modern capitalist master-slave relationship, but, there are time available if one focuses on it – pag gusto dami paraan!. Or maybe am just too lazy to punch the keys in the past weeks!

Whatever, but I did enjoy my 1 week rest, free from my bondage and was it great that I really had a hard time dragging myself back to the office. When one tastes freedom, it leaves its aroma in your mouth long enough that u get hook to it. Like a cigarette smoke after a fine meal. But reality crushed the idyll dream, and after a week I am hustling my way to the dungeon and trying to beat daily that 8:00 o’clock scourge. Hay nako, whence a rebel resided, now only full of resignation, pathetically appendage to the machines and to the whims of his demigods. Whence a repository of ideas, now a stagnant caricature not unlike a stale water in a stinking estero. Whence a warrior for words, now reduced to writing dense business correspondence and memorandum, and analyzing structures suited for the masters of universe in this fucking capitalist, consumerist society. Whence a non conformist, now a cretin licking asses to preserve the superficial stature his society has bestowed to him. The litany never ends so I just quote Billy Corgan – “despite all my rage, I’m still a rat in a cage.” Too bad, this boy who has penchant for spontaneity, for anything alternative, and sometimes who borders on self-destruction – has been thrust to live a structured life (what an irony, he is now with structured products desk, life’s truly a joke hahahhaha, and I’m the only one laughing?). The man who prefers dark music, poetry and ideas with no commercial value has been lumped in the company of angst-free, competitive and corporate creatures.

Again, work is beckoning, so I have to continue this reckoning.