Politics ***** Teargas Noon At Malacañang Palace Poem by Rommel Mark Dominguez Marchan

Politics ***** Teargas Noon At Malacañang Palace

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for my lose knapsack, wallet, ATM cards, sandal during EDSA 3 political crisis, Philippines

We're almost at the Presidential palace gate
the Malacañang
when the Presidential Security Group PSG beatus
they believe we're anti-contitutionalists
anti-democracy
Warning shot alarms the armless protesters
teargas looses again like cotton gas on air
spread over, against our nostrils
our breathing is on peril

Panic. retreat.stampede
I am trapped. leaving my knapsack
a sacrificial act to crawl freely for life
below pointed barbwire
Red cross ambulance snatches casualties
Blood spills near the gate
Sniper still in palace rooftop angled corner
Nervous kills my courage
Tension boils my adrenalin
Teargas dries up my throat
Vacuum lungs, clog to breath

I climb Centro Escolar Univ. wall
hunting even a single drip of water
to nurse my wounded eyes, life and death breathing
Empty fire tracks park diagonally
cyclone barb wire, prime mover van block the exit way
Outside San Beda College pedestrian lane
an army corporal offers me a dropp of alcaline water
psychologically quench my thirst

Bang! bang! bang! echoing down Mendiola street
helicopter still capturing photos from the air
dropping confetti of political reform

I run again as if racing for final lap
with restless protesters, tabloid photographers
university belt students, trouble makers
resistance fighters, recidivist drunkards,
doble-kara political organizers, left-fight wingers
CNN cameramen, nearby elites, bleeding hearts
shabu addicts, long hairs, minority creeps
rugby funks, cop-haters, humanists, cowards
Marxists, homosexuals, poets
'Gloria labandera' banner handlers
'Erap pa rin' supporters
pro and anti democracy bare footers

a consequence of a de facto government

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Janell Cressman 13 April 2009

wow what a poem, it gets right in to the poem, it keeps going and it is really good all the way threw i like that! Nicely writen poem!

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