Monday, September 18, 2017

THE MAKKASAN CONSPIRACY

the demons that possess the value chains must be exorcised 

by us sorcerers and dreamers and pretenders

who conjured magic spells in colored post-its and sheets of paper      


we who conversed in skyped voices and emailed letters

charlatans unmasked during a fancy Thai dinner 



in Makkasan where the conspirators gathered

subdued murmurs compete with hushed whispers

conspiracies disguised as dinners and consultations 



until finally the bell chimed for a dose of the elixir

a tavern piercing the sky where happiness spew out of fountains

to toast, to celebrate, and to forget Makkasan



but I am just a conspiracy of one among many

severely infatuated with Manila's old streets

shooting churches [and bicycles], eating noodles [and lechon kawali]  


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