Vocation ***** Bombay 5-6 Poem by Rommel Mark Dominguez Marchan

The small businesses are keen
against Philippine's shaking economy
about to recess
except for the chinese dwellers
and the rest-

but for the few numb wheel of fortune
is the Bombay sneaking opportunity
for their 5-6 lending money capital
for tiny vendors in all nearby
main streets and provinces

despite the high risk
not to be paid back daily
the serial hold-ups
the threatening crimes for money

they are still untiringly feed peso - peso
capitals as their daily routine
by these fearless migrant from India
who believe that when you die
you lose your name -

with their rhytmic collections styles
tax free, full of spirits in selling mats
plastic chairs, blankets etc
for their avid lenders

an Indian tactics that the native
Pinoy Malayan race can't ever
perfectly duplicate
my neighbors emitate it and
now they quit, their little capital
and 5-6 alike investments
are melting bit by bit
by their own kinship risks