ON WHY WRITING THIS BLOG IS ALREADY WORKING
By: Iris P. Concepcion

I had walked in several streets and alleys of this archipelago conducting interactions with mammals with high I.Q.'s, some terribly hostile to the equilibrium of the mind. But still, roads are paved to be walked on, so I walk.

I had met in some obscure corners people on the primest block of a truly reinvigorating, creative movement. It is not the put-on type, easy on the eyes impressionism. I find it difficult to articulate why I have to find the answers (sometimes) in mammoth sub-urban graffiti walls and weird reel locations with robots donning spaceheads; and thus, I often shun the jammed airwaves and bugged phones that I put off since I easily doze off after minutes of posse listening.

Anyway, daily, I await for calls that never came and I was given reasons for that too. I often wonder why my sentences get chopped in the information highway. I was given a pointblank answer who is doing it, in more literary ways than the poppy ones. Yes, they might have been possessed by the Blairian events of the current world and you just need to respect the reason for the bouncing-off balls, losing their steam in the grinding process of the modern times.

People pose sometimes as the people I communicated with but scratching the initial surface is one thing I have developed quite impeccably over the years; you live on the edge daily as people throttle you with choices of their own. There is only one heart to give and I do not mess around casually pumping it for people with screwed shoes on---or shod springboards?

I am conducting an interview with myself to get through these points:

Q: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE AFTER THE ELECTIONS?

A: I retrurned to the city and found it inside a boiler room. The whole kaboodle of insensibility is somewhat tempered by the views of people who had taken long hours to hurdle the design stages, took a hefty, free time to build concepts whilst whiling away their donkey rides in the deserts with sashaying hair, on hold (besides, they have ridden in beat-up vans in Divisoria, grinning at me like carnivores). If we want faster communication using the available computer savvy, they say it will falter. Next thing we know, they created pronto holograms already so done by the immediate competition in say, two years back. My point being, if it shall be embraced nonetheless in the medium, why bitch about it in the first place? The proponents never claimed perfect competence but for taking the big, bold, new, vibrant step to that direction (an impressive feat considering the least time involved, as opposed to say, six years of yacking indefinitely and choosing which suit matches the new glammed up face in the leadership arena), somebody had to take the credit and I am giving it to the persons who derserved it.

Q: DO YOU LIKE ITS TURN-OUT?

A: Yes. I was in a precinct where shoving and priority tickets get distributed like raffles and I figured, it isn't that those machines failed (they worked like zingers on horny heat where I voted---reliable and fast), it is that people were creating superficial vacuums and disarray to stall the procedure in major ways than one. Some people were yelling "uwi na tayo matagal pa ito" but I desisted the jungle call of the losing spirit and said, head on, "Have these people line-up for Christ's sake and have them vote as they come." Despite the man-made catastrophes pursued by people used to lug 2,000 heavy pounder boxes in the boondocks, I persevered as an embrace to a refreshing change. Partner said, you may not have free houses or cars but haggling for street food has its pluses as far as your character is concerned. Yes, the election is a test of wits and the young wit nailed this one on a dead man's coffin.

Q: HOW DID YOU VIEW THE CONTENDING PARTIES' CONCEDING POSITIONS?

A: I was impressed with them. The first one to come out with a press kit was Gilbert Teodoro and he was very jovial and upbeat. I just know he wouldn't get lost in the way of the wolves inside just because he is firm and forthright. There is a certain respectful way this kind of leader exudes onto the field, it isn't just cuteness, he has the cerebellum to back it up and the speediness to enforce them; when he said he is going to contribute if he is tapped by the new administration, you just feel he isn't boeing-ing it for some cheap lay or free ride atop a sandy donkey outside the country. I voted for his cousin but they're GREAT family.

Q: ARE YOU ALARMED BY THE DOOMSAYERS?

A: Not in a large scale. Here's the thing: I know who is plain vicious, despite their made up "I Love My Country" columns (the nerve to write that Ninoy Aquino did not leave any legacy because he was not President---they are enjoying the nuts and bolts of that claimed democracy because this man died, truly, and it wasn't via fake urn). Anyway, I look at legacies of how far their policies had really trickled down on me, as a citizen, and much as I pain writing this, those weren't implemented by sloths. The workers did them, fast and square. Why argue with words? When they cross the printing press for truer, seen, implemented, working environment, that is when you say your "aye."

I also read something that the aunt of our new president explained : that they were persecuted during the martial law years but she said, they never got back what had been sequestered from them nor lengthily enjoyed the economic fruits brought about by Ninoy's death (yes, that is not legacy enough to old geezer-whiners). She was as forthright into explaining what it is to be within and I am glad that they are finally articulating the dynamics happening there in actual form. The bank explanation is particularly an appreciated gesture. Many can claim otherwise, but I know who had been truly there. It is not just yelping out with "Hey chicken s****t, give my mistress a job she needs via free phone." That is soooooooo Byzantine period and no longer clicking. Or splurging on mediocre clips as a pitch for government: we are far more THAN the out-of-focus shots believe me. Somehow, that is a done statement.

Noy's sister Kris said one time that she wonders who wants to be inside the Palace since it is a very lonely place to be, with several people pulling you off from everywhere. She further said, if the purpose is to bilk out something from the office though, it could be good.

I say, when these people in an alleged lonely place start to truly listen, that's when good things genuinely happen.

Q: BUT ARE YOU ALARMED ?

A: I said not in large scale.Unmasking the whole set-up is the fun part though. I especially take my hats off to people who got caught up in the web of past heroisms as they take the art into the streets. My people got copied and that is the highest form of flattery I could have in this planet of ours. Oh yes, you get turned-on by all of that massive force of getting the dam out of the water and you do that for the sole partner who matters and who the freak gives a damn if I am singularly blind that way? I do not like sharing my devotion that is why: if it is that person, it should not be a cause for alarm that he gets the super mojo always because productive come-ons do not come in cheap bottles and blah talk.Not to mention springed shoes.

Q: WHAT HAVE YOU FOUND LATELY?

A: Oh, Joey de Leon's Filipino poetry, I guess he was wrecking some nerves in the past too, and I think I know from where he is speaking from. Here's what he penned:

"At pati si Kris ay pinakialaman
Sa sinabi nito bago maghalalan
Na siya daw ay maging pabigat lamang
Sa kampanya ni Noy syay aalis na lang.

Ngunit tanga lang ang di makakaalam
Na si Kris nga ay parang naging hologram
Na biglang lalabas sa kung saan saan
Para ikampanya utol nyat tulungan.

At ang endorsement nyay nakatulong naman
At alam mong puso and pinaggalingan
At hindi katulad ng iba dyan
Puro usapan kaya baya'y barya lang.

Biro nga ni Noy
Tigil nyo kadramahan
Siniseryoso kanyang mga tinuran
At gusto na syang palayasin sa bayan

Ngunit sa tingin ko ang katotohanan
Kaya gusto nila si Kris ay lumisan
Dahil matagal na pong nasasapawan
Itong mga LINTIK na tinatamaan

Ang mga inggetera inyong lubayan
Amining upuan niyay gustong upuan
Hindi kayo magiging Kris kailanpaman
Wag syang gamitit di kayo kailangan.

Hindi naman kaya kayo ay ganyan
Ay dahil kandidato nyo ay iba lang
At tipong manok nyo nung huling botohan
Ay hindi nangitlog at sumemplang.

Subalit dahil sa nagyaring eleksyon
Parang mga tao'y haghalo-halogram
Nag-iba ang timpla at nagkabistuhan
Sana'y makabuti ito in the long run.

Q: AND WHAT IS YOUR FORM NOW?

A: Formless. I see people. It is hot walking but they are good visages.