Kung Ano’ng Nangyari sa Araw na Hiranging Punong Kartero ang isang Makata
(Halaw kay Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Gamit ang mga lilang lapis
isinulat niya sa likod
ng mga bumalik na liham ng pag-ibig at naglahong mga pangarap
ang bago nitong patutunguhang
eternidad
Lumapag sa tatak-koreo
ang mga napilas na selyo’t
lumipad, nagpaikot-ikot sa hangin
patungong Moscow Los Angeles at New York
Nag-apuhap ang buwan
sa mga barong-barong ng mga mangingibig
At lumibot sa buong Pilipinas
ang isang naetsapwerang Andres Bonifacio
(Halaw ni Louise Vincent B. Amante)
What Happened the Day a Poet Was Appointed Postmaster
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
With violet pencils
he wrote upon the back side
of returned love letters and lost light years
readdressing them
to eternity
Their cancelled postage stamps
wheeled away on round postmarks
and flew off like flying saucers
marked Moscow Los Angeles and New York
The moon turned to tenements
for lack of lovers
And a cancelled George Washington
flew over America
Source: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. “What Happened the Day a Poet Was Appointed Postmaster.” The Nation, April 19, 1958.
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