ESL or You Weren't Here. Aldrin Valdez

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us,

      we emerge like caryatids from the sheets

      as Mariah

      & Whitney

      & Celine,

      the fabric cascading to our furniture-turned-stages.

       siyam

      Mga kapatid ko say

      I amKSP:Kulang Sa Pansin.

      When they’re really trying

      to make the pikon in me

      come out they say

      I amKSP:Kulangot Sa Pader.

      And I get flustered—

      I am not lacking attention!

      I am not a booger on the wall!

      I am a huffed-up balloon of Tagalog curses—

      which I promised

      to Lord

      Jesus Christ

      I would

      never,

      ever

      say

      again

      if he would just please save my family and me from hell?

      A never-ending

      litany

      of saviors, saints, & the prospective saved

      lulls me to sleep each night like a pacifier.

       sampu

      But it is Nanay who rescues me

      from the tukso of my Kuya and Ates.

      Nanay is dilaw ng manga in an asul morning.

      The rustling of the plastic bag she unfurls

      is also the wrinkled, brown skin

      of her hand as she offers me a mango.

      I have missed dinner and she wakes me up now

      and takes me outside where it is so blue

      even the air seems colored-in

      & the yellow of the mango hums in this blue.

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