Two

if the self tastes bitter
it is not self

(mundaka
upanishad)

so the bird on the high branch
eats the symbols of the fruits

only to spit the seeds
where the second walks

‘two of us
wearing raincoats’

the eagle signs its name
to its antithesis

only because the pen is dry
Loplop is 116 years old today

free to die 21 years ago
wake up tomorrow

and bet on the cockfights
between blinded kings