Et cetera17 Nov 2005 11:14 am
November 2005
Poetry14 Nov 2005 06:00 pm
This poem is from Ntozake Shange, one of my favorite women writers. It’s from her book Nappy Edges. Napapanahon kaya ipo-post ko rito.
With No Immediate Cause
by: Ntozake Shange
every 3 minutes a woman is beaten
every five minutes a
woman is raped/every ten minutes
a little girl is molested
yet I rode the subway today
I sat next to an old man who
may have beaten his old wife
3 minutes ago or 3 days/30 years ago
he might have sodomized his daughter
but I sat there
cuz the men on the train
might beat some young women
later in the day or tomorrow
I might not shut my door fast
enough push hard enough
every 3 minutes it happens
some women’s innocence
rushes to her cheeks/pours from her mouth
like the betsy wetsy dolls have been torn
apart/their mouths
menses red split/every
three minutes a shoulder
is jammed through plaster and the oven door/
chairs push thru the rib cage/hot water or
boiling sperm decorate her body
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Et cetera09 Nov 2005 03:45 pm
Ang bonggang-bongga at lumalaking pamilya ng Newsdesk.
Wa(o)nderings05 Nov 2005 04:46 am
Communing with nature can be fun but extremely exhausting. Here’s some of our photos from the Bathala caves of Marinduque.
Inside Simbahan cave. From the name, you can pretty much imagine the look inside. It has a large dome with huge stalactites like images of the Virgin Mary in the altar.
See that python above? Residents believe it is enchanted. Its owner brought it to the US but somehow found its way back to the cave.