YOU ARE LORD

We step to a stately measure

you and I sedately flirt

around each other

you

will not have me ardent: emotion

is unsophisticated.

To speak of love we must

quote; your aesthetic will not

admit of creative stutter.

well

you are lord

and I must wait, but

there are only so many steps to

a dance, and only so many words

to Byron.

Why there is no need for M. Fred

                in Modern Society

We all of us are

aluminum pots

crack proof.

dented?  easier

replaced than mended.

                                                           - Ma. Lorena Barros

              Philippine Collegian

              May 22, l966