river run like a song. watch the joy leak from the wells in your eyes, and let it spill over like ink and write the pages of your story in the history books of heaven: oh,
you will be remembered. you will be remembered.
an amalgamation of all the blood that runs through you: the pasig, the yangtze, the pacific, the sewers of manila, john the baptist's, tracing down your cheeks and down your throat and slowly you begin to choke:
the saltwater sticks to your throat. you do nothing but breathe, breathe slowly and try not to choke but slowly swallow the birthrights that remain river run,