Selina Tan Poems

The things I find funny
People don’t laugh
Things I don’t find funny
People always laugh
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there are quite a number-
when I look at the mirror;
against my putrid mind-once again
I slide my eyes-
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Feel the mind betray thyself!
Feel the dead reap the living
To which chain that disciplines its master
Leaving passion a threat
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Why is it
That I seem to
Get mad
At everything
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Why is it
that we are attracted
to things we know
we cannot have.
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You write
Like you’re
My lover
You speak
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Chill me out
I’m in trance
I feel the blues
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Bleak Lies
Breaks the preoccupied
The Eidolon that is I
I manage to survive
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two hearts that form a slit
do not simply look elite
but when she opens the tinsy red mock
i was assured of a gruesome lock
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Ayoko ng mag-aral. ayoko ng mag-quiz.
gusto ko nalang matulog o di kaya'y tumugtog.
Gusto ko nalang lumipad dahil ako ay tinatamad
Gusto ko nalang umawit
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