Elegy In Effigy
Elegy In Effigy
(for Ray Albano)
by Cesare Syjuco, Jean Marie Syjuco
Published in: San Juan [The Liberated Bimonthly Magazine of Art], October 1985
It is difficult to reach beyond the breakwater
to Bacarra where they toast and feast to your return
slaughtering pigs and fowl and goats to eke
a semblance of memory from candles,
floral offering, a casket
too tasteless to contain you.
But it did contain you. Though it could not contain
the endless talk on Saturday afternoons spent
here above the breakwater. There in the disorder
of all the questions. In the great and glorious disarray
of all the answers. There and then to while away the time
to the sound of coffee cups and the typewriter.
Pray tell, what madness you now sell
them in your hell, Scanga-Ra.
- Jean Marie & Cesare Syjuco
CCP Cafeteria, Saturday, 7 September 1985
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Cesare A.X. Syjuco, “Elegy In Effigy (for Ray Albano)” (page 1 of 1), San Juan The Liberated Bimonthly Magazine of Art, October 1985
