Notions of Benge Among the Cocky Hepa-Folk
"The indigenous Philippine roosters -batangas, bolinaos, and palanans-
have not been inbred. Inbred roosters arrived in the Philippines in
the late 1930s when a group of Texas airmen stationed in Pampanga
(near Manila) brought a strain of "Florida Typewriters" to the
Anglo-Filipino pit in Mandaluyong. By Philippine standards, these
"typewriters" were strikingly ugly, but they were strong, fast and,
most importantly, they never gave up."
from Scott Guggenheim's _Cock or Bull: Cockfighting, Social Structure,
and Political Commentary in the Philippines_
the California Congress of Republicans & Its Strange Friends
in the whiffle ball stinkhorn growing from "that" navel
whose mirthless wolf-mole could tirelessly find a black marble engine
to recite (or bugger) something far more readable for any animal
hard enough to get a good picture that shows the expanse
of immortal hydra (guasca) would later move into your apartment's
biologists have not studied the dolphin enough to understand
"a grain not grown" (bulu)the neighborhood of characters milled
long after I returned home. Images like the graveyard
stinkhorn see a reference to something in your own hometown's
impossible CatBib stops cats from catching birds
to explore the critical point of a white foam on the ground
a placement of the "donkey's eyes" in its "head" enables it
to reside in both anglo and native spaces it engenders
as a unique kind of discount poetry, melancholy cant help
but make the demanding reader more like Bulent Ozcan
gingering the finger-waggers now mostly photographs
so bless it unstable molecules. His paint has a few open-box scrapes
now wary of ninjas with fungal chadors, puffball sprookjes in van halen's
panama disease and black sigatoka, are cutting a swath
as two teeth like lemons huddle around the gas-powered puppies
dry albumin fills these Rubinesque Republican souls'
storytime in the move to postmodern genres: lontar, rontal,
all kinds of cake-faced pirates in hokey lettrist dirigibles
after K. Silem Mohammad's 'William Stafford Suicide Note'
