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Mar 6, 2008

Pinocchio à la GMA

If Pinocchio’s nose gets bigger and bigger every time he tells a lie, GMA’s mole should get bigger and bigger as a sorry reflection of how a malignant cancer the Philippine society had on her face.

GMA is a master of dissimulation. She thinks she could fool people in one stroke of a lie masquerading as truth. She really knew that there was anomaly involving the ZTE deal NOT a day before she went to China. Her revelation at DZRH was a blatant falsehood to swindle again the people. Upon the advice of her spindoctors like Ermita, she was hoping that the act would clear public doubt but it did not at least to a discerning mind. Is she a gullible president surrounded by equally naïve advisers that she would only know that the contract to be signed the next day was ridden with irregularity, thus inimical to the national interest? Actually, she was aware of it all along.

She knew it. She would tell a lie just to stay in power. She would deceive the people to remain in Malacañang. She would want to surpass the thievery of the Marcoses in tandem with her husband and her clique, which includes Abalos et al.

Yet some remain skeptical about the need for a regime change only because they also would want to tolerate graft and corruption. It is also because they benefit from the spoils. They support Arroyo because they stay apathetic to the plight of the masses who were the ones suffering from this wanton avarice of the first family.

There is no other recourse but to condemn this administration and its supporters. For those who side with truth and justice, to stand neutral is tantamount to teaming up with the status quo. In short, it is time to separate the sheep from the goats. Ironically and pitifully, the CBCP has chosen to be non-aligned. Instead of taking up the cause of the people when black is black, white is white, the CBCP, out of cowardice and patronage, alienated itself from its flock. They had become one with the enemy.

Majority of local governments from mayors to governors had expressed their loyalty to GMA. There is no doubt about the House of Representatives, home of GMA loyalists. The top brass of AFP and PNP paraded themselves for a “show of unity” imitating the “unity walk” of cabinet officials in palace grounds last week. Former President Fidel Ramos, in contrast to her sister, former Senator Leticia Shahani, stopped short of calling for resignation.

“Birds of the same feather flock together.” They say GMA is fine when she is not. They believe GMA is indispensable when she is not. They are all liars and liars do cheat and steal. Look for a facial mole beside a left nostril and you will know why.

Published in People's Digest Newsweekly, Dagupan City, 4-10 March 2008

Mar 3, 2008

Sulat na umaanlong ed saray kaanakan to’d biektaew

Ugaw kini natan
palbog ni’d dokolan
nonot wala’d amayo
tan kindin masamit

No makalakal kila
pibasa yo pa ya
ilaloan kon anta yo’y
salita nen Lakin Anoy

Ta no andi kaokolan
iyalis ko’d Inglis
dila nen Shakespeare
tanila’n oley ditan

Onbabaleg kayo’d
wikan binayes
ed uliran tan tongtong
sankaili’y bayani

Arin eleng ag apildak
baogdan amputin
singa asukar
buek a mais-maisan

Aliwan singa’d si Siogen
maltaw a manag-anop
aluto’d agew
inames ed asin na dayat

Tan si Apo Anno
naingaran ed alog
mabiskeg a laki
galawan toy takel

Sikara’y atateng
na polin nanlapuan
dala’n onaagos ed ulat
nanayam ni’d poso’ra

Aral yo’y Pangasinan
ngeswa na kamarerwa
taningting to’t narengel ko ni
ed palandey tan kaumaan

Esaes, elek, orangal nen ugma
intikyab, inyatol na dagem
pian sikayon anak na Caboloan
makatalineng ed si Apolaki

Kabaten, kotkoten so lamot
potel kayon onalagey
aleg yon aligen saray arom
nilinguanan da’y dilin baley.

Unan naipalapag ed Makata: An online journal of Philippine & International contemporary poetry ed February 2008 ya paway to.

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