Ang Mapahamak Ay ‘Di Matatakas
(The Corrupt Will Not Escape, VivaStar Films, 2082)
As told by Atribida:
You’re invited
to look at me.
I occupy 48
of the film’s
102 minutes.
My gift to you.
Recall the first
kiss between heroes.
After eluding
the mook squad,
creeping into Li Po’s
basement party.
No shoulder injury
for me to heal,
no consoling
twitter for his
high-stakes wiseguy
fuckery:
I just went
for his face. Seized him with
both hands, attacked
tender mouth, noses
and teeth pulping
the ugliest kiss ever
on film. Of course
an improvisation.
They kept the cut.
I stole the whole show.
He hated me hated me
even as they cast us
together again, a love-team
for the decade. A foward
woman fascination.
Adoring my domination,
his constant grasping
plummeting into canyons.
A simple craving
just to say
I’ve tasted him
and it was only
okay. To fluster
the unfuckwitable.
The moment
replicates itself
at the cellular level.
New generations
of badder bitches
than me, getting theirs
with cunning puns
and stiffer nipples,
burning down
the silver screen.
Constructed with words from Jai Arun Ravine, Ching-In Chen, Pia C., Yul Brynner (via Jai Arun Ravine), and Santigold.
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Prompts
Cathy Park Hong reading “Ballad in O,” which has only one vowel sound in the whole poem:
In the dark times, will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing.
About the dark times.
—Bertolt Brecht, via Oscar Bermeo
Jai Arun Ravine:
As an exhausted silence settles over the table, well into my cups, I\’ll look straight at camera and sarcastically say, in my most unctuous, television \”host-sums-up\” voice, \” So….What have we learned today?\” This is a cue to producer and shooters that I\’m fucking DONE. That it\’s time to \”get some wides\”, meaning, the crew steps way back and shoots some generic \”wide shots\” from a distance.
Ching-In Chen:
“ ….
into the lap of woods. Roots
trade many stories; branches cradle secrets; birds,
on the other hand,
do not trust
birds.
—from Arlene Kim’s What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes?
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