What is poetry that does not save nations and peoples?
Flood, flood that destroys homes and books.
Horses, insane horses with no master
pounding on family’s chest.
Poisoned blood, no milk, pure pain.
Dead.
Dead.
Dead.
Dead.
Countless dead.
Corpses floating in mud.
Governments, bad governments.
What is poetry that does not save nations and peoples?
Floods and governments.
It is floods and governments.

(Tula na isinulat at binasa sa Ahon (Tula at Tulong sa mga Nasalanta ng Ondoy) sa Conspiracy Bar noong Oktubre 6, 2009.)