Traffic Jam

By Jonel Abellanosa

 

It takes just one

Visionary disrupter

To take his guitar

From the backseat

And turn anger and frustration

Into a celebration of songs and dancing,

The traffic into a jam.

 

Different Strokes

By Jonel Abellanosa

 

The entrepreneurial use stands,

alchemy between meat and coal,

the wind for irresistible smells,

to empty fast food lanes and decorate

our sidewalks with bystanders

 

The one in power

uses unemployment

and rising costs of living.

 

Independence Day Celebrations

By Jonel Abellanosa

 

so much

depends

 

upon William’s

suggestion

 

to put his “red wheel

barrow”

 

in the middle of

the City square