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    Metro Manila Mammal
    Metro Manila Mammal
    Metro Manila Mammal
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    Metro Manila Mammal

    By Karlo Sevilla

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    This is the first full-length collection of poems from a writer who is a life-long denizen within the conglomeration of 16 cities and one municipality called Metro Manila, also officially known as the National Capital Region of the Philippines. His current weekly routine involves visiting four other cities from his home in Quezon City, which makes him travel approximately two-thirds of the whole of Metro Manila two to three times a week. He believes that his experiences culled from growing up, living and working within this metropolitan area strongly inform his poetry – regardless of theme or subject matter.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoma Publishing
    Release dateMay 1, 2018
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      Metro Manila Mammal - Karlo Sevilla

      Miracle

      Shadow on Bathroom Floor

      I watch my shadow stare back at me without eyes,

      omniscient as I perceive it to be, knowing all about me...

      when it's just a splotch the lit light bulb on the ceiling,

      above the toilet bowl, casts before me,

      upon the tiled floor cum Rorschach test.

      Okay, all-knowing it isn't. Neither is it dumb.

      Or anywhere in-between. It's just there;

      dark and futile mimicry of reflection.

      I Grew Up on Sesame Street

      (in a Neo-Colony)

      I grew up on Sesame Street, second half of the 70s.

      With Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, Gordon, et al.

      in the sunny multi-racial celluloid neighborhood.

      It was magical, the pastel-colored Muppets

      along with my co-species teaching me

      and my cousins ABC and 123

      on our color TV. (The only downside:

      my younger cuz Mark always cried scared

      of the operatic orange singing, Carmen.)

      Everything a blast until that early December

      morn, when mother woke up and screamed

      that the TV was gone, and we found a piece

      of crap on the floor of our dining room.

      (All indications point to the Metro Manila

      Poop Gang, notorious for their signature

      of defecating on the floor of the house

      of unsuspecting victims. Good thing

      Nanny Sally wasn't roused, when she always slept

      at night on the living room couch with her feet

      touching one side of the TV. Otherwise,

      that gang would've killed her, or all of us.)

      In a matter of days, our stolen TV was replaced,

      but with a cheaper one of the black and white

      variety. And the same awesome cast of

      Oscar, Grover, Count Dracula, Linda, et al.

      resumed their pedagogy, only this time

      not in colors bright but in chiaroscuro confined

      to varying shades of black and white.

      The lessons in black and white persisted,

      dragged on, for a few more years. (Which

      must be proof that the combined earnings

      of a teacher and teacher/life insurance salesman

      weren't enough to afford savings for a new

      color TV set under the depressed economy

      of the murderous Marcos* dictatorship.)

      And so, four decades hence, THANK YOU,

      Kermit, Susan, Maria, Mr. Hooper, et al.!

      (Not much thanks to Elmo, though, who was only

      a bit player then.)

      And no thanks to

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