<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=468665" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Running Amok</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the slums of Tondo, people dwell<br>in shacks of cardboard, bits of bamboo,<br>corrugated metal, and a few cement blocks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They come from all the provinces--<br>a farmer’s son from Cagayan,<br>a coal miner from Bulacan,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">a field hand from the banana plantations<br>of Davao. They come to Manila<br>for work, for better pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The highest incidence of men<br>running amok is in Tondo,<br>or at least, that’s what the local tabloids</div><div style="margin:10px 0">have for headlines every week. Amok in Tondo<br>kills seven! Police shoot him to death!<br>During the Filipino-American War</div><div style="margin:10px 0">from 1900 to 1902, the Colt .45 pistol<br>was refined to kill crazed<br>Moro fighters who ran amok</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and would not stop attacking<br>with rabid animal urgency<br>when shot with bullets of lesser caliber.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The superstitious old women in Tondo say<br>that no rice, no shoes, and no work<br>breed beetles and violence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They say that small black beetles<br>can lay eggs in a man’s ear,<br>and this is what makes a man run.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Nick+Carbo">Nick Carbo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=468665" data-title="Running Amok de Nick Carbo" data-description="In the slums of Tondo, people dwell in shacks of cardboard, bits of bamboo, corrugated metal, and a few cement blocks. They come from all the provinces-- a farmer’s son from Cagayan, a coal miner from Bulacan, a field hand from the banana plan..."></div> </div> </div>

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