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| ABOARD TRICYCLES, JEEPNEYS, FERRIES
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
Well they do Carry you To your travel’s destination
These tricycles Jeepneys Ferries
Hallmarks of tropical Filipiniana Whose travel trails are mixtures Of well paved avenues And dusty rugged roads
They do make your tours Altogether fascinating and crucifying
Even as the good buses Flashy yatch and jet planes That cater your travels Lead your ocular organs to witness The tapestry of wretchedness And inertia of blighted villages That altogether inevitably erases The shangrilaic imageries about the tropics That may gather in your mind Like clouds over the Sierra Madre That the Pacific wind eagerly dissolves.
[Writ. 09 Oct. 1987, Proj. 8, Quezon City, M.Manila.]
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