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April 22—May 22, 2024

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'Using an existing selfie from your phone, let’s see your tortured poet self.'

My 'tortured self' is currently having fun at a spring in Infinity Resort, Oriental Mindoro! 😊 🇵🇭

Outside

Rain falls copious upon the city 
already pinned down by dusk.
Even the smog struggles 
In ascension,
not a few crown still stay afloat
above the soaked haze.

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Cuckold's Coffee

Lately, nothing starts my day except

for my hot black coffee:

expertly brewed with 

the despair of the abandoned,

and stirred with the rage

of the betrayed.

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Team Unity pa rin! Kaya ano man ang sabihin ni Duterte tungkol kay BBM ngayon ay pinaniniwalaan ko. At lahat ng sinasabi ni BBM tungkol kay Duterte ay pinaniniwalaan ko pa rin. Para manatiling buhay ang diwa ng Team Unity, magpauto, este, maniwala pa rin tayo sa mga lider natin!

Big thanks to Karl R. De Mesa for the outstanding blurb on the back cover of my new chapbook, 'Figuratively: A Chapbook of Shape Poems.' And my new collection is available here at my online Ecwid by Lightspeed bookstore Karlo Sevilla Books & Stuff: karlosevillaofquezoncity.blogspot.com/2024/03/karlo-…. #shapepoems #poetry

Wala daw tayong kinalaman.

Sino niloloko mo?

Yung hinakot sa rally.

Yung mayor ng Davao may comment sa WPS. Yung Vice president, no comment.

Komedyante itong pamilyang ito talaga.

Thank you, Muse-Pie Press, for choosing my poem, 'Broke, Not Broken' (Shot Glass Journal, Issue #31 May 2020) as your poem-of-the-day this National Poetry Month! And this poem's included in my chapbook, 'Recumbent' (8Letters Bookstore & Publishing, 2023): 8lettersbooks.com/shop/recumbent….

Sa Pilipinas, ang reward mo sa ilang ulit mong pagmumura sa Diyos, lalo na't may national TV news coverage, ay ang pangunahan ang prayer rally . . .

Wrong basket for Kai Sotto! Still, an impressive game with 23 points and 7 rebounds. youtu.be/zDqXb8H5VrY?si… via YouTube

Re sa pagmumura ni Duterte kay BBM:

1. Ang alam ko maraming Pilipino na di nakapagtapos ng kolehiyo ang bumoto noon kay Digong (at kay Marcos).
2. Nakabaril noon si Digong sa law school at dapat nga kicked out pero 'pinagradweyt' pa rin.
3. Bale ayon kay Digong, si Imelda ay ..

This is how China unites . . . her enemies.

Journalist Patricia Evangelista returns to PH for 'Some People Need Killing' book tour

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🎥 Looking for footage of #ICC hearings and judgments? Head to our YouTube channel and browse through the playlists, where you will find various videos on ICC cases, and more ⬇
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From my FB page:

'Just sent! And for the privacy of the brilliant editor, I'm posting this screenshot w/ erasures. And I'm really excited for this forthcoming project, especially as it's my first time to write a sci-fi poem. (And it's quite religious, or irreligious, too.)'

'Ang gusto ni Pastor Quiboloy dalhin na ito sa korte. ‘Yun naman po siguro ang dapat nating gawin.' - Sen. Robin Padilla (February 24, 2024)

Ika nga sa Ingles, 'This didn't age well.' Eh nasa korte na po ang kaso, ah? Eh bakit alaws pa rin?

MULING MAGBABALIK ANG PINAKAMALAKING PRIDE EVENT SA BUONG SOUTHEAST ASIA! 🏳️‍🌈 Last year, we made HISTORY... This year, we will be LEGENDARY! 🏳️‍🌈

LOVELABAN 2 Everyone!
Pride PH Festival 2024

SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2024
QUEZON MEMORIAL CIRCLE
QUEZON CITY

I submitted to a journal then realized that the body of my email was reformatted upon transmission, i.e., separate parts were joined together like one paragraph, etc. I hope my sub won't be dismissed right away just because of that stupid email glitch. Hope my poems will be read.