<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486596" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cabantian....</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">i wonder if poverty is still worth writing<br>that little child once in cabantian in 1979<br>eating breakfast: a glass of water, <br>chunk of brown sugar, a cup of rice<br>that was all that i saw<br>and i wrote poem about poverty<br>and poured my heart out, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">i went back to the same place last year<br>the shanties are gone<br>perhaps the child has become another<br>work force in the banana plantation<br>or perhaps he had gone somewhere to the big city<br>serving as bell boy at the hotel<br>or waiter in a pizza house</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or perhaps before that happened<br>he could be one of those salvaged victims<br>in the crusade against domestic rebellion<br>one of the unsolved disappearances in Davao</div><div style="margin:10px 0">cabantian is silent, as it was silenced before.<br>no one knows. Perhaps he died at 15<br>...i do not really know and i do not want to recall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=486596" data-title="Cabantian.... de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="i wonder if poverty is still worth writing that little child once in cabantian in 1979 eating breakfast: a glass of water, chunk of brown sugar, a cup of rice that was all that i saw and i wrote poem about poverty and poured my heart out, i wen..."></div> </div> </div>

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