Poetry by Karlo Sevilla

​DUI
 
Driving at breakneck speed,
color blind at the stoplights.
Dyslexic and semi-literate,
stupefied by the traffic signs.
Stereo conveniently amplified,
drowning all city sounds.
 
She professed love or hate
naked, at the top of her lungs –
King James Version.
 
Maybe I preferred it with
deuterocanonicals,
Today’s English Version.
 




The Desperation of My Brethren
 
is palpable:
the wall
in front
when I stand
and above
when I lie
on my back,
touching
the tip
of my nose.
It’s also
the wall
behind
that
props me
on my feet,
and the floor
I lie on.
And I am
sandwiched
between one
on my left
and the other
on my right;
they pinch
my shoulders.
My brethren
feel mine
the same way.
 
Altogether
we are
blister packed
and
expire.

Bio: Karlo Sevilla is a freelance writer who lives in Quezon City, Philippines. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Philippines Graphic, Outsider Poetry, Rat's Ass Review, Radius Lit, Parody, Eunoia, Jazz Cigarette, Wraith Infirmity Muses, Origami Poems Project microchap, in the respective first anthologies of Peacock Journal, Riverfeet Press, and Eternal Remedy, and elsewhere. He also coaches wrestling, trains in Brazilian Luta Livre, and does volunteer work for the labor group Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (Solidarity of Filipino Workers). 

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