ABOARD TRICYCLES, JEEPNEYS, FERRIES
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Well they do
Carry you
To your travel’s destination
These tricycles
Jeepneys
Ferries
Hallmarks of tropical Filipiniana
Whose travel trails are mixtures
Of well paved avenues
And dusty rugged roads
They do make your tours
Altogether fascinating and crucifying
Even as the good buses
Flashy yatch and jet planes
That cater your travels
Lead your ocular organs to witness
The tapestry of wretchedness
And inertia of blighted villages
That altogether inevitably erases
The shangrilaic imageries about the tropics
That may gather in your mind
Like clouds over the Sierra Madre
That the Pacific wind eagerly dissolves.
[Writ. 09 Oct. 1987, Proj. 8, Quezon City, M.Manila.]
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