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Gayle Dy

​Nothing good ever happened on December 7th

​First there were the bombs
                 on the morning of 1941
                                    no amount of   smoke signals
rising from the ashes         would be enough to overturn
            the fleets poised to create ruin
                           Agamemnon once said that truth is the first
casualty of war but what ever happened to spirits once they die?
                        i’m afraid my sins cancel out
                               what if there are bad people in heaven
                  the one good deed I did this week
                                      like the evil men of Sodom & Gomorrah?
Daddy says      don’t be gay      but support men who do crimes
                                                i’ve long since stopped listening
                                                   to what old men like Larrybird,
                                                               born on the same day as me
                                                              have 2 say      i wish i shared a birthday w/ Ladybird instead
                                                                       thinking she  was in luv w/ someone
                                                                                  who turned out 2 be gay
                                                                     so that’s one common denominator we have

                can’t say much for Imelda Marcos,
                who was stabbed by an assailant
                                                with a bolo this day in ‘72
                calling it her second lease of life, i wonder if I'll
               be lucky     to be given the chance
                                to fuck the world over twice
also, a great many earthquakes rumbled &
    so begun uprisings   & war      & death—all that fun stuff
                      but in 2001, a girl was born     legend says that her mother,
holding the baby grenade        for the first time     already knew
          how much of an explosion she would make 

About the Author

Gayle Dy is a Chinese-Filipino poet and aspiring filmmaker from the Philippines. She is a graduate of Creative Writing from Ateneo de Manila University and is the author of the chapbook, God Save The Girl. She loves nature walks, picnics, books, and Greta Gerwig amongst other things.
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