Democracy looks like
a hobo in Silver Lake.
He is flaunting
that signboard again.
Some menu for
some change.
A ticket
for future travels.
—
Zosimo Quibilan, Jr.’s book of fiction, Pagluwas (Going to the City) won the 2006 Philippine National Book Award and the prestigious Madrigal Gonzalez Best First Book Award in 2008. His poetry collection, Ang Tanging Natagpuan (The Only Thing Found) is forthcoming this year from the University of the Philippines Press. He performs as singer-songwriter ZOS!MO in Los Angeles and leads No Sisig No Rakenrol, a musicians collective promoting original Filipino American music.
