Cancion à la Gamalinda

Cancion à la Gamalinda 
Louise Vincent B. Amante

For luck of good, some forgotten garden picked up long ago a stone, from my two quasars of fingertips, I leave for lights with praise and dribbling corridos. I'll send my lovers' eyes to the dream machine. I love ya, the wound that gleams in the sweet raw dreams. The angels walk past their dreams into the machine. So pack your dream and step into the bags. The hole becomes my world more and more in my soul. Their invisible things, the counter-halves in their whiteness I want to believe. Too much to ask for? I long for the unreal so much, I want to be unreal so much in quotes and myths This city crushes with its clouds of afterselves and we become like drowning steam Let's get to the straight point Can't be the dream machine but I'll give you something more I'll send you to your lover Walk past the dreams into their angels So pack your machine and step into the doom bags that much I can tell ya slashing our silences and intimacies through the river and our uncertain lives and the rest of November dying, out there that is not their own world in the gaggle of junkies and the whole darkness of the damn Rilke and Morrison, The only truth is I love this darkness. 


23 June 2017
Quezon City, Philippines


Adapted from:

Gamalinda, Eric. "Cancion Moderna," from Lyrics from a Dead Language. Pasig City: Anvil Publishing, Inc., 1991. p 93.   

para kay James Soriano (multiply post, Aug 26, '11 7:48 PM)

kamakailan lang ay may nabasa akong isang online article na pinupuna/pinupulaan ni James Soriano ang wikang Filipino.
gustuhin ko mang gumawa ng essay, sa dami ng iba ko pang gawain na sigurado naman akong kikita ako, nahahapo ako dahil inis sa kanyang mga pahayag. nakalulungkot na ang Manila Bulletin Online ay tinanggal na ang artikulo sa kanilang website.
nakaaawa rin naman na ang isang Filipino na tulad niya ay pupulaan ang wikang pambansa. marahil, hindi pa niya nababasa ang tulang ito ng Rolando Tinio na isa ring Atenean:

Postscript

ni Rolando S. Tinio

Adios

Amerika

w/ all

your star-spangled ideas

Ginago mo kaming

Walang kalaban-laban

CRAZY MAN

CRAZY     CRAZY

         I get so furious

everytimeIthink

      kaming me pinag-aralan

ang lumalabas ngayong hangal

Because we’re out of touch (chua chua)

Because we’re out of touch (chua chua)

It’s all a matter of pointofview

& ar poinuview’s sulipat

MATANG--

MANOK

Think lang of all the

finals and seminars na pinagsusunugan

ng highbrow

jusso we won’t be

nakakahiya naman sa aming mga

KANONG classmates na andami

namang     ay Dios ko      tanga yata

D’ya know I wrote a heaven-knows-how-many-pages-paper-on

have y’eva he’d of some’ing entitled

Ver-gi-di-ma-rium by Marston ba or Hall?

& for 8125

na-eyestrain sa kasisilip

sa Regla ni San Beda sa microfilm

para maevalyuweyt kung Madame Ovaltine was landi o saint?

And what kind of iskolarsip daw na putangna?

Buti pang magkamot ng bayag / Bakâ nilabasan pa

I mean it’s absoluuuutely ridiculous

endeavuh so precieuse to stuff

yu’head w/ headnotes footnotes marginalnotes

until your soul’s one big fat variorum edition

of pure unmitigated pedantic nonsense

S* A* P* A* G* K* A* T*

walang  walang

kinalaman

sa sarili mong

UHAW ANTOK TAKOT LIBOG UTOT

& then you godda nerve to think

you’re shuperiah to the restadapipol

juz becuz you speak English w/the twang of angels

from Talahasee, Salinas, or Catona

Abá’y talagang anak ng garapata ng áso ni San Roque!

May talino ‘yung di marunong mag-englis akala n’yo ba

May sariling estruktura ang pangangatwirang

hango sa hinuha’t higher form of algebra

ang ma’no bang patancha-tancha’t pakarku-karkula

I mean to say

St James

St Eliot

St Warren & Wellek

St Shakespeare & Johnson

St Donne & Miltonberle

St Thomasite

St Peace Corps.

Pagbalikwas ninyo sa kani-kanilang libingan

ladya kami sa istetsayd na dunong-dunungan.

kung pakalilimiin lamang ni James Soriano ang kanyang ginawang sanaysay at ang tulang ito ni Rolando Tinio, dapat na niyang isulong ang pag-unlad ng wikang Filipino.

dahil ito ang nararapat gawin ng isang tunay na Filipino.

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edit delete reply lvbamante wrote on Aug 31, '11 may update ang mamà tungkol sa kanyang nakagagalit na artikulo: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/332639/wika-bilang-gunita ang tanong ay, sinadya ba niyang maging "sarkastiko" sa una niyang artikulo?

edit delete reply lvbamante wrote on Jun 12 ang artikulong nagpagalit sa marami. http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/331851/language-learning-identity-privilege