Travel Manila Haiku - The Man Next Table Poem by john tiong chunghoo

Travel Manila Haiku - The Man Next Table



man next table is waiting
for wife to be back from whoring
my filipino friend tells me

The filipino economy was at its worst in 1991.when I stopped in
Manila for a three day tour. I was flying back from Tokyo to Malaysia.
It was pitiful to see so much of poverty and so many resorting to the last means to earn a living, selling their body. It was in a cafe that my friend living in Manila told me the man next to our table was waiting for wife to be back from her work, i.e, whoring. I was shocked..

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john tiong chunghoo

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Sibu, Sarawak, Borneo East Malaysia
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