content being a fly on top of a carabao

it finally happened! and it did at the PICC ground last night. it was a cozy, very Filipino (albeit the italian/french themed cocktail) book launch.

remember i’ve written pinoy’s book launch some few entries. when he first told me about the news of some of his old poems possibility of being published i was elated. last night i was really, really, ecstatic. it was ANI that published his works and he was lined up with the professional writers, freelance and otherwise. the book’s very pretty and well very thick. he gave me a copy. it’s the last thing i read before i went to bed last night. i woke up today with it on my side.

i hope to be able to finish the entire collection sometime soon.

after the event, pinoy and i had dinner and coffee. in between chews and sips we were talking, talking, talking as usual about life and love and whatever. he was telling me how thankful he is that he has me and our other good friend jon for keeping him cultured. i thought (in fact told him) that it is i who’s thankful for the same because it is only he and sometimes joey that sustains my artsy side. i’m so soaked in political matters i’m drifting and drifting away from the arts.

i’ve told him several times how happy i was about what hapened, with the poems being published and all. he asked me why. i said because i feel like being published myself. i know i can never be a writer.i will never have anything decent to qualify as a work of art and having friends like him successful in this department, makes me proud. i’m afraid it’s bordering on dillusion of grandeur, an added bragging right.haha.

then again, like i said i never mind being the fly on top of the carabao. can this qualify as free riding? i’d like to know.

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