Tanduay Rum 65 Poem by RIC BASTASA

I do not know if you
tried
Tanduay rum 65

i tell you take it
even once

savor the smooth flow
of the spirits inside your
throat

running slowly into you
lungs then into your heart

feel it there like a tinder
if you can only see it it has

some spark of flints
and just wait a little until

you remember how was it
that you were charged with rape

and you are imprisoned for
7 years for all the lies that

she peddled in court and
only if the judge himself has

not tasted Tanduay rum 65
when he was 17

he could not have felt so
well inside his lungs and heart

that you were the innocent boy
at heart molested by that

27 year old unhappy woman
who really want to die.