the pig’s blood / boils on tita’s stove

vinegar steams the ceiling wet / with typhoon

I hold the brown / in my mama’s elbows

as we stir the pot / of black intestines

sauce dances & cooks / the American

out of my stomach / until my mouth returns home

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cha-cha as we roll / sliced vegetables into

rice paper / tita, teach me how to turn

again? / see how my body dances

with women / how the ocean returns

to my hips / when warm breasts

guide my heavy / tongue

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kay nakakatapon ito hira

stay away / from the gays, iday

they are contagious

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tonight / I grip lola’s rosary

tight in my palm / let the Tanauan

tsimosas chant bayot / bakla

claim the sour / sweat of my cum

a holy awakening / to a gold-toothed

crucifix / my weeping crescent moon

screams for a past lover’s mouth / until

mama drags my pale / into sea

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& the ghosts hold my queer /

while I float in their grave

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