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A lodge of smoke,
to make me choke;
From heated stone
Poured water on.

A cold rub helps,
but my heart yelps:

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Early morning when the sea is still quiet…

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Call on a Dog,
just like a hog.
It wags it’s Tail   
instead of wail.

Looks to my eye,
as though I’m Sly—
Am I Friend?
And not a Fiend?

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When I passed by this shrub and asked what it is, I was told it’s a kanding-kanding. I passed by it the second time and a different person said it’s an iring-iring. =D.

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Lights dimmed, music—
some acoustic…
Then the masseuse coughs!

Tingling powder,
Smell of camphor…
Then the masseuse sniffs!

‘ these presages?
The massages
from tie-erred hands—

Hands though in heat,

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Two rounds, she’d push a cart
 full of tart;
Shakes and delight
 for the Workers’ heart,
For those times they’d catch her.

Two rounds, down the lower floors
 she’d push, 

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We have moved out of the house where we stayed for twenty years; It was those years when Spiderman has not yet revealed himself to Jane and the push-button phones have not yet replaced the rotary ones… The old house continues to haunt my dreams…I realize that when things from today and yesterday get mixed up.  These dreams end with me looking at page of a calendar…

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If there have been people losing their hats to snatchers, there have been some too who have been able to  escape the snatchers’ hands.  In both occasions, they were commuters inside a public utility vehicle.

Just when a few people inside a jeepney exclaimed “ayyy!!”

I asked “what happened?”

“That kid—was trying to grab my hat” said the wearer who was quick enough to move away.

“Kid?”

I looked out the open window and there, the kid was—mischievous. shameless and acted like nothing happened.  Questions ran in my mind:  Are hats that hot items? Are they easier to sell? Is snatching hats part of a training towards snatching jewelry later?  Is the kid on his own?  Is an adult behind this?

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