for the diaspora

of pinoy power bottoms



My darling

 try to write

the myth

of dark rooms

a rising sea

wall

the page

break, courier

to bold

sane & sorted.
Kapwa

read consonance

as accented

the gays’ gaze

two ways

POV slick

& hitched 
to the host

& travelling.
Kapatid

ignore

participles

of holiday pure

breeds,

you’re overseas

 working that big

salamat

energy.
Balikbayan

 indent deeper

stick it to their

inihaw na Isaw

typeface

misalignment

you are both

riding & railing

their bleachers.
& yet we are

still here

Bakla’d

grammared back

to tatay

arrival lounges

spelling out

remittance
& ourstory

begins

as pasalubong

then portmanteau

new romans

whiting out

a serif, spouting

a gargoyled load

grotesqueing all this

lucida futura.