L'Affaire de Ragsak, 1

L’Affaire de Ragsak, 1

Imuestra ti lalaki, ni Ronnie Dayan, babaen kadagiti ramayna, ti maipapan iti pito a tawen a panagsagrapna iti ayat ti babai. Lima a ramay iti makannawan, sa dua iti kannigid. – Manipud kadagiti damag ken video maipapan iti daytoy.

1.

Pito a tawen dagiti amin a di aggibus a ragsak,

Kas iti panagsangal kadagiti adu nga arapaap.

Ti balay nga amarilio, kas pagarigan.

Agareng-eng dagiti selula daytoy nga ayat

Nga iti bitekbitek ti barukongko ket ti masangal

A pammakada kadagiti mapuyatan a bigat.

Duakami iti leddaang, karayo kadagiti liday

Nga iti agpatnag a gundaway ket ti agbusi

A balikas, agayug kadagiti bantay, sadiay

Nga umallatiw kadagiti kapanagan, sa iti pantar

Dagiti agturod nga asug ken ti saning-iti apagdarikmat

Tapno manen, iti dagullit dagiti arasaas dagiti kawitan

Ket ti aganangsab a panagalimpatok a di mabuniagan.

2.

Diak ammo a saritaen ti rugi dagiti adu unay

A punganay ti kapay-an. Iti barukongko ita

Ket ti marachaleko a pangsangga iti bala

Manipud iti law-ang tapno iti panagrikus daytoy

Ket ti pannakapukaw iti karabukob a ditoy

Ket agamang dagiti amin a pakadanagan.

Awan duduso kadagiti palad.

Awan ditoy dagiti buteng nga idi ket di nagindeg

Iti sidong ti babai a ti rabii ken innak ap-apalan.

Uyotak ti sardam nga agbalin a kaltaang,

Paapasak kadagiti amin nga agek,

Iti katay, sa ti panagbabasa ti arindam-egen

A daga iti malinnaawan nga arubayan.

Anian a panagbukar dagiti sampagita,

Dagiti rosas nga ingget sudi nga iti raya

Ti barito nga Apo Init, ket ti di aggibus a darang!

Kunakto pay nga adda babato!

Kunakto pay nga adda tagiruot!

3.

Pito a tawen a nagbinnulig dagiti puotmi.

Agriigkami iti kaltaang ti rabii

tapno kaduaenmi dagiti mangrabrabii,

selebraran dagiti buteng nga agbanag nga ayat

dagiti bakabaka iti barukong nga agbanag iti kari

ti mutia ken siak iti awan ressat

a panagkalay-at kadagiti turod

tapno iti pantok ti madagdagullit

a panagal-al ket ti alimpatok

dagiti ling-et, dagiti lamulamo nga isip,

ti mutia ken siak ti pito ken maminpito

pay a pannakaiderraas. Iti bariwangwang

ket ti karik kenkuana: Nga isu ti ay-ayatek

iti awan labas a panagay-ayek-ek,

ti pus-ongko a mawaw ken ayat

iti pus-ongka a kas ti naparkagan a tangatang

ni dumawdawat iti ragsak.

Monologo ni Ronnie Dayan, ti Kaayan-ayatna nga Agayat iti Signal Cinco

Monologo ni Ronnie Dayan, ti Kaayan-ayatna nga Agayat iti Signal Cinco

[N]agkakalabuan na kami ni ma’am. Kesyo hindi na daw kami masaya sa pagsasama naming (sic), lagi kasing bangayan, at laging nag-aaway kami. Ronnie Dayan, in R. J. Dioquinio, “Dayan: I slapped De Lima when I found out about new boyfriend,” GMA News Online, 24 Nov 2016.

Sika man ti maagawan iti ayat,

sika nga iti kaano man ket dimo

impato a pagrukbaban ti nadaeg

a musa a kas ken ni madam.

Ma’am, dayta ti awagko kenkuana idi,

ngem no dumteng ti aldaw, padasekton

a kalipatan, ti mutia nga inay-ayat

iti baet dagiti ringgor ti ili nga agsasamusam.

Adda baro nga ayatna, ti hagad.

Ket kunak kenkuana, ibusennakam kadi,

dakami a naitudeng a parabantay iti anninawan

tapno dagiti agpadaka a rabii ket dida magammatan,

ikarsel kadagiti ginget, itapkal kadagiti sawang

tapno dayta aprosko kenka, sika a madam,

ket ti karayok nga awanan iti nagan?

Sinubalitak ti ayatmo.

Impatok met dayta nga ayatko iti ili,

siak a kadagiti sulsulinek ket nagarapaap.

Isut’ gapuna a nagsuldadoak, madam,

tapno iti pistola dagiti arapaap ket ti turay

nga adda koma kaniak.

Awan kastoy kadagiti kinelleng,

peksman, mabartek man ti tao wenno saan.

Ania koma ti adda iti ngudo ti witiwit,

iti nguso ti arado no di ti pannakabalukag

ti agrekrekkang a daga kas iti panangbalukagmo

iti barukong nga iti kaawan iti bukod nga idda

ket ti arasaasmo kaniak, siak a kas iti bingkol

ket pinidutmo, anian!

Asinno koma ti di maragsakan iti panangisakibutmo

kaniak, siak a kadagiti datdatlag a rabii

a kas suldado iti kalkaltaang

ket ti namnama iti apagapaman?

No apay a nagkurus dagiti dalanta, madam,

diak maung-ungpot a panunoten. Ammok

dagiti palimed dagiti danum a naabbedan,

iti man surong wenno iti puyupoyan, ket kas kenka,

binirokko dagiti aribengbeng, imbulosko dagiti apres

nga apres iti sellang tapno koma iti basbas ti tangatang

ket makadua manen ken manen iti labes ti apagapaman.

Makikiak kadagiti saom, sapata a kas iti agnanayon.

Awan ressat dagitoy a panimpla iti pait nga ammok,

daytay maraamargoso a raman nga iti pannakapuot

ket ti gumawgawawa a kaipapanan.

Uray sadinno nga infierno, sindadaanak a kenka

sumurot. Uray sadinno a pakigubalan la ket ta

kaduaka kadagiti alikuno, sadiayta, mata daytoy,

iti batiwerwer ti mabartek a panagpuligos dagiti bagita,

siak iti sika, sika iti siak iti maymaysa nga idda,

kaatagka ken dagiti balikasmo nga addaan iti diro

kaatagkan, ti ulom iti brasok kalpasan ti balang

a panaginnala dagiti saanen nga estranghero a kararuata.

Pito a tawen a saan nga asi-asi.

Pito a tawen, kas iti mistiko a numero dagiti bangkay

wenno dagiti Judio, agadu dagitoy iti texto ti garagakta,

iti panangsimsim iti arak iti maymaysa a kopita,

kas iti panangraman iti dara ti mesias nga ita,

iti kada agsapa, ket lidokenta, nanamen

iti karabukob, baan a sadiay ket agbayag bassit,

bay-an nga agindeg iti apagdarikmat dagiti panagmaymaysa

a madagdagullit, santo iti umno a kanito ket ti panangwayawaya

iti daytoy tapno agkaramayam iti rusok.

WPH/

25 Nov 2016

Bagio idi ti Ayatna, 1

Bagio idi ti Ayatna, 1

Maysa a bagio idi ti ayatna,

kas iti wanesnes ti angin a dumuklos

kadagiti turod, sa ti bangkirig ti bantay.

Idiay kami nga agsala iti fandango ni rugso,

ti sakak iti sakana iti di mabilang a panagsikkusikko

dagiti agkarayam nga ima tapno iti rangkis

dagiti kinataomi a dua ket agsabat

a kas tudo, siamsiam koma tapno ti nepnep

ket sumuko dagiti kararuami a dua.

Iti alimpapatok ti maiparit nga ayat

ket ti signal a kangatuan,

signal singko a di lablabsan.

Ta adda ta adda gayebgeb

kadagiti barukong a lemmesen ti layus

tapno kaduami dagiti gabat nga agtunglab

agsalakan iti alluyo dagiti maabbedan a dissuor

kadagiti sellang, gumawgawa kadagiti amin

nga aribengbeng, agar-araraw iti pannakaruk-at

tapno allilawenmi ti sabali a signal

dagiti ribo nga al-al a mapadso.

Sungbatak, diputado, ti saludsodmo.

Pito a tawen a dinarupmi dagiti amin a rikna

tapno ti kammayet dagiti bagi ti agari,

lamulamo dagitoy iti mangul-ules a rabii.

Nagplanokami kadi kadagidi sardam

a ti arak ti pangontra iti talimudaw

tapno iti panagrasuk ti pus-ong

ket ti agngangabit

nga anangsab, duakami iti rawis,

duakami iti aringgawis

dagiti amin nga isusuko?

Diak masinuno, apo diputado.

Kas met kenka, iti panangiduron kadagiti leddaang

iti sibabalo a barukongmo,

kas met kenka, inwalinmi amin a bakabaka

tapno iti areng-eng dagiti kaltaang ti rabii

ket ti agur-uray a napuyatan nga agsapa.

Madaripespes amin a madaripespes.

Iramanmon ditoy, apo diputado dagiti regget

ken pudno ken panaginkukuna, dagiti makunes

a lino, dagiti pungan a saksi, dagiti idda

a sappuyot dagiti mabagio a bagi. Anian!

Manipud signal uno agingga iti kapigsaan

nga saplit ti angin ti angin kadagiti rikna

nga agkaribuso, agareng-eng kadagiti allawig

nga agpasalakan iti appupo! Anian!

Ngem itan, iti ukom dagiti pannuok

nga iti agmatuon ket ti ulbod,

aggibus iti rugi iti isu met laeng a sulisog.

Inayatka, sika a babai. Intampok

iti trono dagiti palludip nga iti panaggiddan

nga agsainnek ket ti nagpaiduma met

a pannakapnek. Umapal dagiti suripet,

nga iti panangidagel iti lawag ti sipnget

ket ti met laeng ayek-ekta nga agsarsariwawek.

Ngem itan ti salogan iti bantay.

Sadiayta iti pantok idi, ket idiay

a binukelta amin a pulso ti apagkidmat,

ti pusom iti kararuak, ti espiritum

iti agragut ta agragut latta a seseggaak.

Binirbirokka kadagiti di makaidna

nga iddak, ti agur-uray nga ules

a mangabbong iti silalabus a ragsak.

Itan ket ti signal uno, ket inton bigat

ket ti agdadata a kalak-amak, desertor

iti daytoy peregrino a rikna, tumallikod

iti agtawtawataw a sapatata iti maysa ken maysa.

The other side of the narrative we call 'Thanksgiving'.

BAYANGGUDAW NOTES. 24 NOV 2016. THUR. N1.
The other side of the narrative we call 'Thanksgiving'.

EARLIER while serving as editor-in-chief of a newspaper in Los Angeles and another newspaper in Honolulu, I raised this issue about the 'other side' of the American narrative we call 'Thanksgiving'.

I raised the issue of murder and genocide, the Christian concept of 'real estate' (a carryover of the feudalistic roots of Christianity and in particular, the Holy Roman Catholic Church's penchant for turning everyone into Christ-believer with a string attached), and that idea of 'Thanksgiving for us' but not exactly 'Thanksgiving for all of us'.

There is this narrative of exclusiveness in this new, mythic American narrative: It our Thanksgiving, but not yours.

The writer Richard Greener (2010) has recently written about this, and he retells of the context of why we must get past the myth of what we are thanking for, why the turkey has to be sacrificed, and why we need to gather and thank God.

Here, in quote-unquote:

"The idea of the American Thanksgiving feast is a fairly recent fiction. The idyllic partnership of 17th Century European Pilgrims and New England Indians sharing a celebratory meal appears to be less than 120 years-old. And it was only after the First World War that a version of such a Puritan-Indian partnership took hold in elementary schools across the American landscape. We can thank the invention of textbooks and their mass purchase by public schools for embedding this “Thanksgiving” image in our modern minds. It was, of course, a complete invention, a cleverly created slice of cultural propaganda, just another in a long line of inspired nationalistic myths.

""The first Thanksgiving Day did occur in the year 1637, but it was nothing like our Thanksgiving today. On that day the Massachusetts Colony Governor, John Winthrop, proclaimed such a “Thanksgiving” to celebrate the safe return of a band of heavily armed hunters, all colonial volunteers. They had just returned from their journey to what is now Mystic, Connecticut where they massacred 700 Pequot Indians. Seven hundred Indians - men, women and children - all murdered.

This day is still remembered today, 373 years later. No, it’s been long forgotten by white people, by European Christians. But it is still fresh in the mind of many Indians. A group calling themselves the United American Indians of New England meet each year at Plymouth Rock on Cole’s Hill for what they say is a Day of Mourning. They gather at the feet of a stature of Chief Massasoit of the Wampanoag to remember the long gone Pequot. They do not call it Thanksgiving. There is no football game afterward." [Source:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…/the-true-story-of-thanksg_b…?]

Vote recount, Thanksgiving for the right reasons, and the quest for what is right.

BAYANGGUDAW NOTES. 24 NOV 2016. THUR. N2.
Vote recount, Thanksgiving for the right reasons, and the quest for what is right.

REUTERS came in with the latest--just an hour ago--about Green Party's position of filing for a petition for a vote recount.

It appears that some possible hacking could have happened in some voting places representing three states based on some expert analyses of those in the know about these information science things I barely understand. I leave to 'em, the experts.

If there are reasons to be thankful on Thanksgiving Day 2016--an American thing--let it be that it is one of these things: This recount that will establish once and for all what happened and how it ever happened that one who won the popular vote by two million is about to lose the electoral college imprimatur come December 19 when that archaic college of electors meet.

Jill Stein: please save this day. Here is the news from Reuters:http://www.reuters.com/…/us-usa-election-recount-idUSKBN13J…

This grotesque 2016 US Presidential Election.

BAYANGGUDAW NOTES. 23 Nov 2016. WED. N1.
Quote, Unquote: This grotesque 2016 US Presidential Election.

Senator Bernie Sanders has said it right: the recently concluded US presidential election was grotesque. An impossible grotesque. A theatre of the absurd.

It looks like in the years to come, the Democrats will have to do a checklist of what error they have passed on as true, and this includes the painful truth that somewhere in the eight years of the Obama presidency, life has not turned out to be better for the average Americans.

We grant that Obama inherited an economy gone bad from Bush 2, and that the wars here-and-there had only made the industrialist of the war games richer and richer, but that, at day's end, is not an excuse for not doing better for the average American during the last 8 years.

In terms of political semiotics, Clinton candidacy extended the fearsome notion of continuing American oligarchy, with choices reduced to the same names. Never mind that Trump was not a better choice: it was that he promised a lot, and those are the promises that the disenchanted people wanted to hear.

Populist politics, they call this, and it happened in the Philippines, with the Duterte presidency proving the efficacy of that same abracadabra.

Now, this is what Sanders has said at a GQ interview:

"I think we expanded consciousness in terms of possibilities. What we basically did is ask a simple question: Why should we maintain the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality that we have? Why? Why are we allowing this country to drift into an oligarchy where a handful of billionaires are buying elections?"

WPH/

The immigrant origin of Mr Donald Trump.

BAYANGGUDAW NOTES. 23 NOV 2016. N2.
The immigrant origin of Mr Donald Trump.

With Ilokano and Pangasinan-Cordillera roots and as an immigrant in the USA, I am now beginning to see more and more the wisdom in that American imagination of nation formation that regards inclusion as a virtue.

Couched in something simple but loaded with so much history, America as 'a nation among nations' must remain so if it wants to remain the model of freedom and democracy, of liberty and justice, and diversity and pluralism all over the world.

This leads me to the issue of Mr Trump's lopsided view of today's immigrant in America.

Himself coming from an immigrant background, we expect him to have the sensibility of an exile, or at least, the memory of one.

He might the second generation, with his grandfather a 16-year old immigrant at the the turn of the 19th century from a town of 1,200 people in Germany and ordered to be banished--to be exiled from his homeland--Mr Trump the grandson ought to remember Ellis Island and that poem about immigrant peoples seeking a new life in these United States.

This story of Mr Trump's grandfather banishment provides us a glimpse of his Weltanschauung about those who come to partake of what is left of the American Dream.

Read--and think and think through what Mr Trump can offer us. --

Thanksgiving, Mother of Exiles, and the Statue of Liberty.

BAYANGGUDAW NOTES. 23 NOV 2016. WED. N3.
Thanksgiving, Mother of Exiles, and the Statue of Liberty.

ELLIS ISLAND in the Hudson River is an enchanting place for me. Years ago, for a number of nights,

When I did an intensive training for a job on language testing, I would take the train from White Plains an hour away, and get off at the Central Station to find my way to that harbor closest to the island.

In the early evening hours, one would see the silhouette of that iconic articulation of a history that is now beyond the imagination and consciousness of triumphalist children and grandchildren of immigrants, many of them now holding positions of incalculable power, a power that is beyond the reach of ordinary immigrants like me.

I would sit there in the dark, and allow people to pass me by, and watch the tourists take a picture of that landmark in the middle of a vast body of water that leads to a vaster one, to the Atlantic.

In my mind is the theatre of immigrant life, the step-by-step procedure to finally calling it quits with one's homeland that could not offer anything but a dehumanized life.

How many of these made it here, and partook of the promises of the Golden Bull by the Wall Street, I do not know.

Once, an aunt who has lived most of her professional life in New Jersey offered me and my sister to bring me around by riding on those double-decked tourist buses that circled New York City and got past the Hudson to get to the other side where we had another view of this 'altar' of immigrant life.

Almost always, Emma Lazarus' words would ring in my ear, each syllable in the poem a syllable in my soul:

"Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./ Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,/ I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Mr Donald Trump must remember these words again.

He must remember too that he came immigrant ancestors.

WPH/

Pumpon ti Aldaw, 3

Pumpon ti Aldaw, 3

Nangisit ti lapida ti lagip

Nga iti dekadeka a saning-i

Ket ti makaparkag nga ibit.

Kasano koma ngamin a malipatan

Daydi a rabii nga iti aldaw ket inaramid nga agngangabit,

Kas iti panangitalawda iti lungon nga ungauong

Tapno iti panagbusi ti paltog ket ti ubbaw a kanalbuong?

Nangisit met ti panteon nga anninaw ti nangisit a gagem,

Gakat, kalat, aminen a klase ti panangkapon iti tuuntuon

A generasion dagiti panangliput.

Markaan dagiti amin a nangisit

Iti nangisit met laeng a hokuspukos

Tapno ti salamangka ti pakasaritaan

Ket kaskasdi nga agrikusrikos

Ita ken iti di agressat a kusikusi dagiti aligusgos.

18 Nov 2016