There will be no looking back We promised each other Before we drove to the airport I get down from the car Take my bags from the trunk And walk straight to the door There will be no kisses No hugs and embraces No words, no goodbyes There was a long line Of people like [...]
Breakfast
I forgot to turn off the rice cooker Last night when I reheated my dinner So I will have rice for breakfast That I cooked yesterday for lunch You were not there to remind me To check the kitchen (and the door) Before I go to bed in the middle Of the night when I [...]
How to make an omelet on a rice cooker
Break the egg Beat it Sprinkle salt Pour a teaspoon of oil Into the rice cooker Heat it and close the lid You’ll hear the oil boiling It’s time to open the rice cooker And pour in the egg Set the rice cooker on “cook” And wait till it turns into “warm” The egg is [...]
Defending ‘Paraiso’
Photo essay: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.171430499598190&type=1 Podcast: http://soundcloud.com/jotorres/mmj181-jat-podcast-apeco VITA BANAYAD, a chieftain of the Agta tribe in the northern town of Casiguran, Aurora province, stood silent in front of 20 students in the middle of a classroom 17,100 kilometers away from her village of Paraiso (Paradise). She fidgeted, looked around the young people in front of her, offered a shy [...]
Alone at Cheap Charlie’s
You sat there in the corner at Cheap Charlie’s waiting for him to come Holding on to the bottle of Singha beer remembering the night He first came for you – long drawn – seemingly endless But you need the cash for the dress you want to buy At Siam Cheap Charlie’s, Bangkok 12 September [...]
farmers’ prayer
frogs have gone silent in the field flight weary birds to rest have yield the lapping of waves on the shore is music to most weary souls to you up there we farmers pray watch o’er us as we end this day you alone know which way to go make us greet tomorrow hello lift [...]
i am you
you laugh because nobody believes that i go to church because you think i am the evil you abhor in yourself i personify your dark desires the bad you love to hate in you you see in me how evil you are so you want to kill your demon through me but there’s no escape, [...]
humble offering
once more here are words on the altar for vultures to pick on offerings to critics unknown who think them god of lines rhymes and reasons of lonesome fools bangkok 10 September 2011
the poet says
there’s nothing to catch the fisherman says the sea is dead there’s nothing to till the farmer says the land is barren there’s nothing to build the mason says the temple is ruined but the poet says there’s a lot to sing about death and ruins bangkok 10 September 2011
write, the wind whispers
write, the wind whispers write about me as you journey beyond the horizon into the unknown forget solid ground as you lift your wings and embrace me and soar into new heights of dreaming write, for this is your curse when you dared the spirits so many seasons ago to teach you to paint ink [...]
