Today our local firebug failed again
to burn down these flats, although the floor
alarms failed too, and most of us slept
through it, at 4 a.m. and at 7.40 I walked
through the campus down the Mill Lane
to the surgery with you and your chair
holding my own scrip for Vitamin D
and ducking as if the cloud-ridden sky
were a ceiling overhead only to pore
later over weather reports for Lincoln
and Newark and here and found myself
treading e-mail and old news and wrangles
as if watching my mother on the verandah
squeezing our clothes under rolled wheels
and bought a easy stitch sewing machine
and some brown shoes in Wigston
after how on the road to Richard Attenborough
you told me how you got drunk and raped
last week and that so far was this day
--
David Joseph Bircumshaw
"We are shallow, mababaw ang kaligayahan."
-* F. Sionil José*
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