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Johnsdavidburg Jun 2018
call it, cell division restrictions
with heavy implications
on age limit correlations
 
old and decrepit
one day your fingers will become brittle sticks
wrapped inconsistently in thin wrinkly papers

approaching uselessness

every page gets turned slower
understood less and less often
as everything begins to be forgotten

watch out now
here comes genomic instability
aka the road to an old death
or a cancerous death
or a radiation death
maybe a chemical death
or from sharp metal or heavy stone
perhaps from the claws
or teeth
of another clever beast
(an inaudible noise)
whatever's clever, it's all ******* death
when it starts...

it progresses (pray for quickness)

please dear
have a little neurodegeneration
with that
it won't matter, you'll forget
and **** your pants
eventually
 
maybe she's born with it
maybe it's recombinational DNA repair error
either way we're all on our own way into cyclic deficiencies of repair
that night shift mr. fix it staff
the stupid intern who makes the copies
gets the coffee
eventually, the manager hires his nephew
and outsources the night shift to mental patients
things then start to unravel
as all things fall apart
 
sometimes it's exogeny
other times from within
endogenous like  
anyway,  it's all "whatever"
("it's not a tuma!")
these things that are eventual, tend to be tragic
universally so
the upper limit to individual "forever's"
this could be law
when that which you cannot see stops doing what you cannot believe
you tend to die
and everything has it's time to die
everyone of us becomes due in time
to become one spectacle of a tragedy
or another
like you've never seen before
like you would never believe

until it happens to you...
when you go,
when you hear,
ha... that,
(inaudible sound)
43 Ang lihim na pagsinta
Pagligtas ang bunga

44 Sa araw ng ikatlong buwan
Pinaghandaan ang isang paglisan

45 Si Tuma ang naatasang magbantay
Kay Tarok na bihag na manlalakbay

46 At nang makatiyempo ang may pagtitinginan
Mula pagkatali lalaki’y kinalagan

47 At sila’y kumaripas sa pagtakbo
Sa mga Amazona palayo

48 Nang sa kanila’y may nakakita
Mahiwagang bubuli nilamon sila

49 At nang tuluyan nang nakalisan
Sa Gintong Lupa ang kinasadlakan.

-07/26/2012
*Gintong Lupa Series
My Poem No. 186
36 Dalawang araw bago ang kasalan
Puso ni Tarok napaglamangan

37 Ng isa ring Amazona
Na pinakamaganda sa kanila

38 Ang babaeng iyon ay naghinagpis
Para sa lalaking ibinigkis

39 Tuma ang ngalan ng naturang Amazona
Na nakaramdam ng pag-ibig sa bihag nila

40 Tuwing nakikitang nahihirapan si Tarok
Puso’y parang tinutusok

41 Nais niya itong pakawalan
Bago sumapit ang kasalan

42 At nang nagkatitigan ang dalawa
Pag-ibig nadama sa isa’t isa.

-07/25/2012
*Gintong Lupa Series
My Poem No. 185

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