Summer Days we'd sip halo-halo go to the cinema for a couple of pisos on summer days me and mama with my assortment of titas kuyas and ates the small cousins they call me ate on summer days we'd buy barbeque on stick wait for the boys who sell lumpia from house to house they live far down in farmland the man who sold taho he'd walk with two buckets on a pole carrying it on his shoulders his burden like jesus walking with his cross on summer days in the palengke i'd often go with my mother a world within worlds of bargains and food stands meats and exotic fruits a child's eye candy the smell overwhelming on summer days i'd wait for my daddy to come down from airplane rides to come get us for good so i can live my life on summer days i was 10 when the weather changed summer turned 3 months out of 1 year i got my first pair of mittens with matching boots a coat with cheap fur lining a custom made accent for brightly colored people with shocking eyes and hairs it ended the summer days |