HAI[na]KU REVERSED (74-78)

-74-

The Barber's kaldereta

virtual and signed-off

edited conversation

-75-

Rice, drugs, and 60 bottles 

spring meeting chased

full topline blockage cleansed

-76-

Safety net secured and moored

doctors kiss lawyers

bankers, dentists headhunted

-77-

The first 1,000 emails

roasted transition

Kerson Fruit, hotdogs

-78-

QR codes to Jakarta

wet rub from the rain

she's back, a cleavage to bust

TWO BIRTHDAYS AND A FUNERAL (HAI[na]KU 68-73)

Menes morphed as Ra

"Good Morning to All" he said

premium safeguarded 

Buttons and gallons 

bland beer boiling in Guimba

red eggs at Old Town

MA in Laos?

Trump is an expired account

JET but not a plane

Last night's buxom band

a cavalcade of mourners

bills RAN, peer reviewed

Old bike, a chopper

Jollibee, Tonton, the bank

a college top up

TCF again?

highway beers and a breakfast

past, present, future

3 FUNERALS AND A LAYOVER

a shield of burned pork

sweet coffee from the slope

Krabang laid over

chasing the reaper

lightning bolt and a tired heart 

three deaths on Sunday

Kathmandu is lost

spoiled blood cleansed and redeemed

born to bike and live!

THE MANILA AND BANGKOK LAYOVERS

PART 1: The Grind

“The sarcophagus ’neath his new city waits.

Pylons and angels guarding o’er his tomb..."

A pilgrimage to the Quezon Memorial Shrine was agreed even before payment requests were amended and disbursed for the monthly power and water bills, phone charges and credit card statements... 

...that were rejected by newly activated replacement cards, collaterals for pieces of concrete real estate in Hop Inn-Ortigas, Red Planet-Asoke and Hotel XYZ in Tacloban...

...as the futile search for Johor Bahru's budget codes topped the agenda of the ACWC who will convene in Siem Reap a month before the Luang Prabang ToR takes effect...

...to initiate the final Ormoc arrangements and social protection for Xieng Thong where the I-JET and FFA PMUs will meet to decide on the fate of the missing mentee...

...who mixed a cocktail of Red Horse and cheap birthday brandy in lieu of an unmasonic charge, two tours in Bali, and the signing of a 6-month contract after 5 biking days. 

PART 2: The Ghosts of QC

"Adorned in Ilustre's design he lies.

He rests at last with his murdered wife.”

Boy Ching Woo is framed in Caloocan

chauffeur to dead presidents 

curator of the Presidential Car Museum

Tandang Sora wept with the rain

her National Shrine disgraced 

San Pedro Bautista relegated

Pansit alanganin, Neapolitan pizza

premium finally paid by Motorino

brunch, dinner at Marhaba Lounge

PART 3: Sleepless in Bangkok

Soi Cowboy sleeps

a Red Planet of sai ua

food tasting the trains

sapphire for a juice

pork cooks in Room 408

Luang Prabang beckons

--- With apologies to Dan Brown

HAI[na]KU 60-64

-60-

outbox jammed and cleared

census done, motorbike gone

to Bali or bust

-61-

just energy rules

friends, mentors and an asshole

sublime talking points

-62-

digital G2

five short years evaluated

speakers unveiled

-63-

Brits at the wedding 

Xiao Qiao's grilled fish, Ning's goat soup

birthday pata tim

-64-

beer, whiskey, brandy

lamb biryani to Bali

biking for udon

HAI[na]KU 57-59 Decoded

Taco Chronicles

gone too soon from Morato

The Playlist of food

TRANSLATION: The pizza tasted of Clarita's delectable rot poured over delicate fried ribs and a false Korean sinuglao that was presented as an authentic pares in the aisle of a Florida bus bound to Cubao and Sampaloc.

sisig From Scratch

buro will always Take Point

like raw chicken feet

TRANSLATION: The Craft struck out in Maimpis but stole a base at the Capitol who licensed Aling Lucing to garnish her sisig with inihaw na bangus, buro, chicharong bulaklak and a paksiw na tilapia from Where the Crawdads Sing.  

Traitors for dinner

fried dumplings, canned sausage, friends 

I Came By and left

TRANSLATION: A Collateral of nilagang baka failed to save a dry Friday night despite the fried dumplings, steamed siomai and 4 days of burning the residues of boozing with a string of cheap barbecue and chunks of kalderetang kambing.    

HAI[na]KU 52-56

Sylvia and Sylvie

birthday chat Into the Night

home, coming, In Time

Kate in Money Heist

revenge was Kijima's war,

Sierra's betrayal

Noah sodomized

Eva chasing Tubal-cain

the hunter is Prey

Xiaoqi and Kaixiang

sprinting in Luxembourg,

Beijing to Moscow

Tuesday's chitchirya

black and white prints on her skin

warm catfish stew

5 HAIKUS

#1

virgin and whore kissed

fame quenched, evil choked, love wins

Million Yen Women

#2

their Izakaya

house of sake, beer, whiskey

her Bottakuri

#3

Rob, Behind Her Eyes

welcomed David through their loins

fairies of Fairdale

#4

first they took Berlin

Crimson Crows, wild Origines

Tribes of Europa

#5

the biker is bored

one Chilean dud, two great Cups

ginga is Pele

[broken] HAI[na]KU 46

tired legs at 50

tainted blood, tarnished urine

a prayer gone wrong

HAI[na]KU 44-45

a cauldron of rage

Tisoy ripped us wet and cold!

fury in the trails

new Light in the East

the meteor streaked then went pfft!

vanished, but we stayed

HAI[na]KU 43

New wheels for old routes

Deep green ain't scary red

Beer is not cocktail

SILHOUETTE WEEK

Blue skies on green

Mountains outlined in between

Phantom blurred in light

Blacked out on Thursday

I wore a cap and we're fat 

A beer-less BeerFest

HAI[na]KU 40

-40-

Days of sweat and rain

Nights of stories and glee

A blissful Sunday 

HAI[na]KU 39

-39-

First job came Friday

Weekend labors and soiree

Wet trails, happy legs

TWO FRENCHMEN AND A COLOMBIAN

-37-

Courage was Julian

Cracked by the Alps and Egan

Thibaut tried and cried

-38-

Sugar in shaved ice

Geraint choked on raw Scotch

Swedish Saturday