Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The Kwek-Kwek Poem

For Jose Garcia Villa

The kwek-kweks are being fried,

They are like little balls to the kiat-kiat tree.

(A man has only two balls,

There are many balls in a kiat-kiat tree.)

Soon the kwek-kweks will turn orange and yummy:

I shall pick up two...three…or many…

Like a modest girl (or boy1), I shall first lick their skin,

I shall lick them before eating (the egg of) the Bird:

I shall be reminded of a bunch of boys.

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I shall kiss kwek-kweks because they are the balls of a boy.

In UP they say we are postmodernists now, sir, and are free to write about our Jacks and Davids—without suspension.

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