English Is an Occupation
By Paolo Javier

i.

Parañaque      time orgies
misery parables
                vices
cumulus hulas      gravity      plays

caller, cast Abel’s embryo
pare      mano po, savior      come balasubas

you lasso Miro’s loneliness      parabolas
mask chimera’s own toys
venture capital enemy Villa dollar economy lusty Hydras

English trippin’ on acid poor lipreads hummed
erase tula culpable due East judged the Angry Oriental

ii.

English withstands high-end ode my guarded obscurity
toddle my hyenas, toddle my hyenas

Trysteasers cut down to pulburon      soldiers Kai occupies
why does the East accommodate mass culture      my Trysteasers

oracle Kai diggin’      low-key desert
Parañaque tales of orgies come inquire about my orgies

illbient      justice      homeless      swells of arrests
Hurricanes away in the wind of my avarice alas turban

eschewing other voices enemy voices dollar      id
leaning on Villa’s books, anger of Villa’s   supplicants

Amy Pacio, company      name abandoned      sic ‘em
sic ‘em, company                in essence, Paolo’s brand of justice

iii.

persevere      counter ardor mystic parables
today Paolo occupies you, today Paolo occupies you

buy hacienda      today calls her infinite
parties blink blink minutiae, savior come lascivious

© Paolo Javier

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