I hate Olongapo because Lolito Go, who is still
on the loose impersonating me, was born and
raised there. I hate Olongapo because it claims a
Wowie de Guzman and a reggaeist named Blakdyak.
I hate Olongapo because the legend of “Ulo ng Apo”
sucks. I hate Olongapo because it is four hours from
Manila, eight hours from Baguio and a lightyear from
Jeddah. I hate Olongapo because they have a mall
the size of a urinal; beside that mall sits a statue
of Freddie Aguilar that looks like a squirrel (raccoon?)
I hate Olongapo because their city library, I guess,
updates only every after a century or two. I hate
Olongapo because beach and bitch are homonyms.
I hate Olongapo because just last Friday I bumped
into a tree and aloud the people laughed. I hate
Olongapo because videokes operate there per one
hundred square meters but it’s not the machine I hate
it’s the singers, I mean, the stingers who won’t let me
sleep. I hate Olongapo because, honestly, I was having
a hard time thinking what else I could hate about it.

Si Lolito Go ay isang professional bum at ordained Dudeist Priest sa Olongapo City. Siya ay kasapi ng KM64 Poetry Collective, isang aktibo at progresibong samahan ng mga kabataang makata na may layuning...

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