Ferdinand L Quintos Poems

Sing me your song and I will hear
your voice like to you I am near,

blow a sweet kiss into the air,
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She gurgles with water scooped from a jar
where mosquitoes have laid their eggs in the night,
she winces with pain as the stale water enters
the cavities of what remains of her teeth,
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Oh how endlessly you deride
someone who used to hitch a ride
but who now drives a brand-new car
as he earns his keep there not far.
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No matter the number
of turns takes the maker,

no matter the manner
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If you can not sleep and dream,
look up and watch the stars gleam,
do not be nightmare to others
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You pride yourself in proclaiming
that me you have forgotten now,
all useless words, need no airing,
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I feel the weight of my sins
behind the whizzing sound
of the whip wrapping around
the bloodied bare back,
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You know well that you do not know
how deep you left me in sorrow,
how excruciating I had to grieve
when you left with not a leave.
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Since the sundial’s invention,
then the vertical division
of earth’s face from pole to pole
by longitudes, as we now call,
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She sheds her clothes
and sends them flying
like leaves in mid-autumn,
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