from abell 2218 by eric gamalinda, published in amigo warfare: poems
[Text ID: I use my body to find love. I eat all the wrong foods. I believe what I see with my own two eyes. Fear eats me. I have to look for a job. I can sprint faster than sound. I burn forever, I have no end. /End ID]
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Grief is a nation of everyone,
a country without borders.
I roam the avenues of it
out of habit.
Eric Gamalinda, from "DMZ" in Amigo Warfare: Poems (Cherry Grove Collections, 2007)
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I use my body to find love. I eat all the wrong foods. I believe what I see with my own two eyes. Fear eats me. I have to look for a job. I can sprint faster than sound. I burn forever, I have no end.
—Eric Gamalinda, abell 2218, published in amigo warfare: poems
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I use my body to find love. I eat all the
wrong foods. I believe what I see
with my own two eyes. Fear
eats me. I have to look
for a job. I can sprint
faster than sound.
I burn forever,
I have no
end.
- Eric Gamalinda, abell2218. From amigo warfare: poems.
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Eric Gamalinda
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I'm currently reading Eric Gamalinda's My Sad Republic Twentieth Anniversary Edition. I've read the original edition more than a decade ago, and understandably I've forgotten many parts of it. But now, as I read the new print, I've begun to remember some scenes. I'm also reminded why Gamalinda is my favourite writer and poet. I love his writing so much, his ability to weave words that would pluck at my heartstrings and taste the poignancy in his turns of phrases. It's always been an aspiration of mine to write something like that, and reading him is always a joy and a blessing.
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you and me until the end
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from plan b by eric gamalinda, published in amigo warfare: poems
[Text ID: I asked someone for directions to the end of the world and he said, Keep going till you can’t. /End ID]
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[...] I can’t begin to say how infinite I feel,
as though I were one of many a weightless absence
touches, and out of this a strange transformation:
the soul ringed with changes, as old as a tree,
as old as light. I am always learning the same thing:
there is no other way to live than this,
still, and grateful, and full of longing.
Eric Gamalinda, from "The Properties of Light" in Zero Gravity
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mitchy poem for his wedding day please
― abell 2218, Eric Gamalinda
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"You love October most of all, how there is no word for so much splendor."
Eric Gamalinda, from The Opposite of Nostalgia"
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Grief is a nation of everyone,
a country without borders.
-- Eric Gamalinda, from DMZ. Amigo Warfare (2007).
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