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26/06/2025

Para sa Senador na may Malasakit sa Butete
(ika-5 sa Keso Series)

“Hindi naman nakakain ang impeachment.”
— kilala niyo sya

Ano bang pinagkaiba ng tao sa butete
na walang inisip kundi pagkain?
Sa pagmulat ng mata,
hanap ang laman-tiyang
bubuhay sa kanila.
Langoy, langoy, at langoy pa.
Pagkatapos, kakain na naman.
Parang maririkit na bayleng
magkislapan man sa tubig,
wala silang pakialam dun.
Kung tapunan ng munting keso,
sila’y mag-aagawan,
sabihin pang galing sa
ma-selfieng bugaw yun.
Kung isa sa mga kapatid nila’y
kainin ng dambuhala
o di kaya’y sa kalaliman ay mawala,
at kahit paligid man ang matambakan
ng basura at masira,
ano sa kanilang
walang diwa ng
pandaraya, katarungan,
pag-ibig, at banal?

Kaya naman kung
sinasabi mong ang mga bagay
na hindi nakakain ay
walang halaga

baka nalilimutan mo,
Senador ka sa lupa
At hindi sa dagat ng hindi nakakain
pero kain ng kain na mga butete.
Hindi nila kailangan ng malasakit.

Marvin B. Aceron
June 27, 2025

25/06/2025

Noname
By Jim Pascual Agustin

Pub Note: A stray cat named Noname shows how the wild remains, even among the fed. A parable without a moral, but the poetry makes it unforgettable. Pretty much the same with humans now in the Middle East, except there is no poetry in bombs. — MBA

Noname
By Jim Pascual Agustin

This is what I call the stray cat we’ve been feeding
for months. A neighbour complains he bullies
her cats. Noname sounds exotic written
like that, said in pretend Japanese.

Caspian, our indoors-only cat was a stray kitten
once. He hissed at Noname, until we nudged him
away from the small gap in the window.
He slumped on the floor, exhausted,
a plate of butter in the sun.

While I was away today, my wife fed Noname.
Soon after, he took down a pigeon, tore it to shreds
before the glass door, a few feet
from where my wife sits with her laptop.

She didn’t stop him. When I got back,
I swept the mess of feathers, a claw,
a small heart embedded with grains.
A sparrow came by, gathering the scattered
downy feathers with its tiny beak.

23/06/2025

Abangan ang ika-5 tula sa Keso Series ni Marvin B. Aceron, “Para sa Senador na May Malasakit sa Butete”. Malapit na. Please like and share San Anselmo Publications, Inc.. Salamat po!

22/06/2025

Get your copies of our new books "Dog Country" by Marvin B. Aceron & "Love Quickies" edited by Dulce Sanchez today at Dia de Manila at the Manila Metropolitan Theater! Please drop by The Indie Publishers Collab PH ! See you! 🤗📚❤️

22/06/2025

Timeless masterpiece from the Culture Club!

The War Song HD (A melhor qualidade!!)

21/06/2025

Ang Pag-ibig ni Mary Grace Piattos at Cheeze Flavor
( #4 in the Keso Series)

Mahilig nga silang magkindatan
hanggang malagas ang kilay ni Cheeze
Flavor nang sila’y magkasintahan.
Labandera’t hilig ng sabong Breeze

Sako-sakong pera ang labada
ni Piattos, palaging sigaw “Tulong!”
“Kung kahati, kabiyak, kasama.
ako na bahala basta sulong!”

sabi ni Flavor, “eighteen na ungas
ang kasapi sa ‘yong paglilinis”
Tutol naman mga kontra-Barabas
“Pag-ibig nyo ay nakaw at lihis.”

Kaya nagsalita na si Kaldero.
“Dapat iremando iremando!”
“Walang nakakita sa kindat nyo’”
wika ng pumatay kay Trajano.

May higit bang pag-ibig kailanman
Ng kay Mary Grace Piattos — Cheese Flavor?
Mula kindatan hanggang milyunan
lihim na lambing, lantarang pabor.

Sa dulo’y sabay silang nagtawanan
habang binibilang ang kaban ng bayan.
Tayo’y iyakan at sila naman
Talonan, sigawan, at tawanan.

Marvin B. Aceron
6/22/2025

21/06/2025

See you tomorrow at the Metropolitan Theater in Manila for Dia de Manila Art & Culture Fair!🥳 San Anselmo Publications, Inc., Bookshelf PH, Balangay Books & Grana Books are representing The Indie Publishers Collab PH ! 📚

DIA DE MANILA
22 June 2027
Sunday from 10AM to 6PM

Second Floor, Ballroom - Metropolitan Theater
Ermita, City of Manila

21/06/2025

TAAL LAKE: THE NEW MASS GRAVE?
Recent reports suggest that the 34 missing sabungeros were buried in the deep waters of Taal Lake. Three years of silence. No bodies. No convictions. Only whispers… and now, this.

Before the lake became the rumor mill’s graveyard, Lost Sabungeros had already uncovered the threats, the fear, the cover-ups — and the crocodile.

Read the explosive backstory behind the documentary they tried to suppress: MTRCB refused to rate it. Cinemalaya canceled it due to “security concerns”. Streamers found it “too political”.

Featured in SANTELMO 11 – PELIKULA JOURNAL
Digital copy now available for ₱60: (Direct link in comments) Hard copy also available. Please pm us.

This is more than a film story. This is the country we’re living in.

19/06/2025

KESORA SARA
(From the Keso series)

When I was just a little girl
I asked Du30 what will I be?
Will I be honest? Will I be rich?
Here’s what he said to me

Kesora Sara
Forget about honesty
You will be rich-confi
Kesora Sara

Now I am the Vice-Prexy
I look like Fiona sino ba she?
Mary Grace Piattos
Cheezy Flavor
These friends are close to me.

Kesora Sara
Forget about honesty
You will be rich-confi
kesora Sara

I make tusok the isaw
I dress like dugyot people vote me
Nobody’s honest, nobody cares
T’is how we come to be.

Kesora Sara
Forget about honesty
You will be rich-confi
kesora Sara

You’re now rich-confi!
Kesora Sara!

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Instructions de Keso:

Because Rizal didn’t die for keso, but we’re swimming in it anyway. Here’s a song for the times. Sing it loud, or sing it in hiding.

Sing to the tune with a guitar or youtube minus one from the original song by Doris (in)Day.

Marvin B. Aceron
June 19, 2025
Happy Rizal Day to the world!

18/06/2025

Broken Window
By Jim Pascual Agustin

Pub Note: This one made me pause and imagine: an empty room, a crack on the wall, a wooden bird, the wind, and the magical sequence that follows. The effect is indescribable. Don’t you think this is exactly what we need at the onset of this uncertain second half of June 2025? - MBA

Broken Window
By Jim Pascual Agustin

Hairline cracks radiate from a point
no longer there. The wind slithers
through, dislodging the last warmth
that occupied the room. I stare

more than necessary, as if lingering
could fuse the shards back together.
Then I remember by the ledge
there once was a wooden bird

with a head that bobs sideways
when touched. Searching, I lean
forward. It’s lying outside
on the rain-soaked soil.

I could tell anyone who asks, “For a moment,
the bird came to life and pecked through
the glass, then turned back to wood
with the first gasp of air beyond the room.”

16/06/2025

16/06/2025

Mamaya po kitakits!

📚✨ MALIKHAING GABI SA LUNDAGIN MO BEYBEH! ✨📚

Ngayong Lunes, samahan kami sa isang masinsin at masayang talakayan kasama si Atty. Marvin Aceron, publisher ng Santelmo Literary Journal, tungkol sa malikhaing pamumuhay sa gitna ng mga gawain bilang abogado, manunulat, at tagapagpalaganap ng sining at panitikan.

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