Karambola ti lengguahe
ti naimbag a gasat
a naisangrat kadagiti bituen.
Ita ket lotto 42
sa lotto 45 inton bigat
sa supperlotto 49
dagiti amin a sammaked
tapno iti labes dagiti rigat
ket ti panagarapaap
nga iti darundon dagiti malas
ket ti perdigana ti rebbengna
a ragsak.
Kas iti panagsabong sagpaminsan
ti dama de noche nga iti panangiyawid
iti lagip ket ti ayamuon ti narasay
a panagsubli kadagiti nangina nga aldaw
nga ul-uloden ti anniniwan
tapno makasubad datao
kadagiti naimbag a nakem
kadagiti rabii nga iti bartek
ket iti parbangon laeng
a mausawan kadagiti pannkaiyaw-awan.
Ket ita ti aldaw ti Mierkoles ti rambol
iti sumuno kadagiti panagrennek
iti saot' dakes: laeng ta maipeksa
dagiti amin a sakit ti nakem
nga iti isip ket sabidong a balinsuek
tapno ti numero iti tagainep
ket iti tarheta ti baro a gasat
a maimarka iti tawen ti purpuriket.
Iti pila dagiti agbirbirok iti suerte,
ditoy a madiskubre dagiti rikna
tapno pabaruen ti panangilala
kadagiti balabala ti panagwayawaya
manipud kadagiti numero a marambol
kadagiti kari ti maikadus a sunganit' basol.
Aprosan ti urnos dagiti numero
ket inanamaen ti pugto a paulo
ti maiwaragawag nga agpugpuga
nga angol dagiti maatianan a bisukol
a koma kadagiti paspasmok a pagkarasan
ket ti kisang ti adda iti pagramaan.
Ibbung, kunaen koma, iti bagi kas iti pila
dagiti kas kenka. Ngem a ta sibibiag
dagiti kasaba ti umadanin a buslon
dagiti numero a dikta
ti diosa a karissabong.
A Solver Agcaoili
Divisoria/Enero 6, 2009
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Combo de Numero
It is combo de numero
that gives him luck,
one final hit with the jackpot
to build a dream church
for the poor. He promises
this to his gods, his friends,
poor poets and sincere pretenders,
but dear friends who understand
the urgency of his need to imagine
what is it to have enough of ironies
to hope even if famine becomes
the language of the broken soul.
Some of his friends,
of course, do not understand
the parallel vision of his wish:
what on this unhappy earth will put
two and two meanings together
such that this writer of verses
would need the matter for
that is not what verses reveal
that is not what tropes unconceal?
So: each day he goes, his gait confident,
to a superlotto store by the S-malls,
make small talks with the smiling clerk
and buys himself one, just one
freaking number combination that will,
he hopes it will, give him some hope
the break to break free at last
from all these that make him work
endlessly still and forget how poems
are supposed to decipher
the mysteries of a lucky pick
the numbers in a combination
in the quick.
A Solver Agcaoili
Diliman, QC/Jan 4, 2009
that gives him luck,
one final hit with the jackpot
to build a dream church
for the poor. He promises
this to his gods, his friends,
poor poets and sincere pretenders,
but dear friends who understand
the urgency of his need to imagine
what is it to have enough of ironies
to hope even if famine becomes
the language of the broken soul.
Some of his friends,
of course, do not understand
the parallel vision of his wish:
what on this unhappy earth will put
two and two meanings together
such that this writer of verses
would need the matter for
that is not what verses reveal
that is not what tropes unconceal?
So: each day he goes, his gait confident,
to a superlotto store by the S-malls,
make small talks with the smiling clerk
and buys himself one, just one
freaking number combination that will,
he hopes it will, give him some hope
the break to break free at last
from all these that make him work
endlessly still and forget how poems
are supposed to decipher
the mysteries of a lucky pick
the numbers in a combination
in the quick.
A Solver Agcaoili
Diliman, QC/Jan 4, 2009
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