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Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra's
War Photos

War Photos: Poems

First published in 1999
by Down With Grundy, Publisher
179 D.M. Morales Street, Lolomboy Barrio
Municipality of Bocaue, Bulacan Province
3018 Philippines

Second edition published in 2002
with the Afterword "Assent and Poetry"

Copyright © 1999 Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra
"Assent and Poetry" copyright © 2002 Vicente Ignacio Soria de Veyra

 

All rights reserved. Readers are welcome to view, save, file and print out single copies of this work for their personal use. No reproduction, display, performance, multiple copy, transmission or distribution of this work, or any excerpt, adaptation, abridgement or translation of same, may be made without written permission from Down With Grundy, Publisher. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this work will be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

 

ISBN 971-92108-3-4

 

 

to my parents

 

 

 

> ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

> AUTHOR'S NOTE

 

I. Is A Gift

We Watched The Town

    a. In Choice, As In Life, Is Guilt

    b. our view of nature itself

    c. We Smiled Like Innocent

Silent Modesty

Best For Them

The Bearish Market of Church Futures

A Christian Poem On Little League Cheating

Is A Gift

Menu Is A Game

    a. watch

    b. lahar

Tables

A Pro-Life Poem

Christ's Failure (or, Pro-Capital)

 

II. Country Music

Homosexual Church

Nagged You, Loved You

Rude Poem

No Rhymes

Singing Along

Country Music

Nature Undecided

Philippine Buses

 

III. Marketable Symbols

Pride: Shallows and Pins -- (first appeared in The Evening Paper - Alfred Yuson, Poetry Editor)

The Marketable AIDS Symbol -- (first published by The Evening Paper - Alfred Yuson, Poetry Editor)

The Warning

Poetry Redefined

Testing Abadi MT CondensedLight Font

Shit (Barcod39 Poem)

Future Saints

 

IV. Goiter

Irreverent Duo

The Art of War In Advertising

On The Difficulty of Bravery

The Esthetics and Economics of Overpricing

Duties (or, The Privileged View of Travel Poems)

Goiter

Poetry Defined

Glossy Black Toilet Bowl

 

V. Mr. Anonymous

Radio Friendly Unit Shifter

Rock Star

A Poem On Ghosts

War Photo

Remembering A Mess Hall

Mr. Anonymous

Identity Crisis

Adding

Trust Lust -- (first appeared in Eros Pinoy, Anthology of Contemporary Erotica In Philippine Art & Poetry - Alfred Yuson, Poetry Editor)

 Joining The Mafia In California

Superhuman Stateless Senior (SSS)

Among The Rich Courtesans of One-Stop Shopping . . .

 

VI. Tsars

Progression

Superstition ('Round The Corner)

In The Presence of Silence (or, Waiting Outside A Doctor's Clinic)

Ellipsis

You're It

Makati (o, Business District ng Paningin)

Tar Tsars

 

> AFTERWORD ("Assent and Poetry")

> ABOUT THE POET

Copyright © 1999, 2004 Vicente-Ignacio Soria de Veyra. All rights reserved. Readers are welcome to view, save, file and print out single copies of thiswebpage and the poems linked to for their personal use. No reproduction, display, performance, multiple copy, transmission, or distribution of the works herein, or any excerpt, adaptation, abridgment or translation of same, may be made without written permission from the author. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this work will be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

ISBN 971-92108-3-4

-- this online book of peoms was launched July, 2004

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