FRAGSTORM: BECAUSE I LOVE BASHING THOSE WHO DISH AND TAKE PERSONAL

May I just say, for the record, that God save POETRY and the world from (appellation)poets like the recent Mikael Co who would DICTATE to the READER via Authorial Rights how (his) poetry should be read or understood. Jesus Fucking Christ. Amen.

Puss na nawasak(!) in boots says:
That one is sooooooooo NOT A POEM! It’s a rant!
Ang yabang ng sensitive Poet oh!
Afraid!
And daming magagaling na line.
Ang galing nun end line.

Porcupine na natisod(!) in her stilettos said:
WHAT A LITERARY FAUX PAS!
PRICELESS IN PHILIPPINE LITERARY HISTORY!

I-na-nawindang(!)-sa-kakatawa-says:
(And I’m the one being called a literary fascist?)
You really think I would let this one pass?
Oh-ho-no, this is just begging to be bashed.

Tsk, tsk, you’ve been a bad bad bad boy Dear-MIKAEL-CO-POET,

SLAP 1:

Well, you could have asked if the person reads your poetry first. Clichés are useful sometimes like “Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups”.

SLAP 2:

Well, a simple thank you would have been nice for the I-find-your-poetry-nationalistic-compliment given by someone who admires your poetry.

SLAP 3:

Well, hell, you’ve just set back a couple of centuries the authors-are-really-not-prickly-you-didn’t-get-my-text-assholes-program I’ve been ra-ra-raing on.

SLAP 4: (smile):

Why so personal?! Sana sinabi mo na rin lang in your, er, poem na ubod ng panget ang mukha ni Dean Alfar kasi may pagka-Mulsim therefore terorista siya or ubod ng liit ng bayag niya. Parang katulad ni Tazzy na tinira na pati boobs and legs ko. Latter has no poetic pretense kaya ayos!

SLAP 5:

I read and listen to Mikael-Co-Poetry. I admire it and it makes me think and feel. Furthermore, it makes me keep on thinking of our struggle for our nation’s identity because it gives attention to the details of the lives of our people (who can’t or chose not to write therefore you give Voice to their voices), leading my thinking into that Kamalayang Pilipino, PanTAYOng pananaw, and encourages me to keep on serving our country. If that isn’t eliciting nationalistic sentiment, then the Oblation has failed to teach me what nationalism is. Shet.

CLARIFICATION:

Para malinaw lang, hindi po ako “Padawan” ni Dean Alfar or kung sino man.

I am my own woman Chaka Kahn!

THERE-THERE-KISS-KISS:

Thank you for writing and sharing your poetry. I share them to my friends like takatak boys and those who are deep into the drug and other bad business because that’s the only way they earn money for their families. They like your stuff (and man they’re picky), especially when they think it’s about being dumped and other things like hey-we-feel-think-know-this-too. I think you’re one of the most significant poets in this generation because you write (and win the Palanca) in both English and Filipino. Because of you, I’m encouraged to continuously learn how to write in our native languages (initiated by some of my once-teachers like Luna Sicat-Cleto) because you showed people like me that it is possible.

SUGGESTION:

Please feel free to bash me too for communicating to you this compliment.

FUN SUGGESTION:

Perhaps next time poets-like-recent-you publish a poem, it should have an explanation as to how you think it should be interpreted?

FUN:

If you want to make it personal, magkurutan na lang tayo pagbalik ko sa Maynila next time we see each other. I swear in my Motherland’s aswang blood that no one will interfere or restback, especially my beautiful girls, boys, bakla, tomboys, butikis, baboys, unggoys. Game!

RA-RA-RA:

I looooooooooove Philippine Literature!

Hay. Sige, balik ako uli sa my so-called-Scandalous-life kasi baka imbyerna na naman readers ko.