TINGNAN MO, gamit nila ang pera
kinontribute nila doon sa yellow-yellow.
Tingnan mo ang nangyari,
wala tayong bishop ngayon.
Di mo ba alam? Tinanggal.
Binigyan lang tayo ng caretaker
ngayon na pari.
Walang bishop ng Maynila.
Nagalit si Pope
kasi nakialam sa pulitika.
Iyan ang totoo diyan.
Kaya binigay sa atin officer-in-charge na lang.
Wala tayong bishop.
Tagle was out.
He was investigated.
Iyan ang open secret.
Malaman ko kasi nakikinig ako sa lahat.
(Arranged
in sophomoric poetic form did I the latest unpresidential ramblings, in line
with the evolving new craze on his pronouncements, shamelessly copycatting that
on Covid-19.)
So
babbled, in his characteristic nonsense, His Excellency President Rodrigo Roa Duterte
at the General Assembly of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines in
Pasay Tuesday.
So,
pray, tell, what has got Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle’s assignment to the
Vatican got to do with the mayors? Or, with the encroaching vee-rus – as
Duterte puts it – not only posing, but verily imposing, all-too clear and
present danger not only to the ways and means, but to the very lives of their constituents?
Way off the rational mark, as always, Duterte there.
On
record, Tagle served as Manila archbishop from 2011 until this February when he
was appointed by Pope Francis as prefect of the Congregation for the
Evangelization of People, reputedly second only to the Secretariat of State in
the hierarchy of the Holy See.
The
position has primed Tagle to being a papabile – a favorite candidate for
pope in the next conclave. If that is some sort of punishment for Tagle or a
measure of “galit” of the Pope as Duterte ranted, then every prelate would be praying
for Bergoglio to impose papal wrath upon them.
While
the Manila archdiocese is sede vacante – vacant seat – the administrator
the Pope appointed – Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo – is an even more staunch critic
of Duterte. A case of the gauntlet in place of the glove smacked at the president
there.
Aye, an absolute hallucination
makes of Duterte’s allegation. Which, conversely, makes right of his saying Malaman ko kasi nakikinig
ako sa lahat. Ah, what voices only Duterte can and does hear. Which brings to mind
that old Tagalog maxim: Ang maniwala sa sabi-sabi, walang bait sa sarili. Proximate,
dangerously proximate, to another Tagalog phrase that literally translates to
the English “broken good.”
Indeed, that proximity came
full manifest only last Monday at the meeting of the Inter-Agency Task Force
for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases in Malacañang with Duterte
at his illogical, incoherent worst.
Now immortalized in the
net is Duterte’s rambling of historical hodge-podge that one netizen said could
only make sense if viewed as a “stream-of-consciousness surrealistic verse.”
Thus, The Kit:
Can be
distributed
to the different
health centers,
but at this time
kung kulang
they can be
brought to a testing station,
to RITM.
Kokonti lang
kasi.
Eh the kit, is
the kit,
meron namang
lumalabas pa.
I think that ...
sabi ko nga ...
in every epoch,
maybe meron nung una,
Bubonic Plague,
mga gago ang tao no'n,
tamang-tama
lang.
Tapos yung
Spanish Flu,
right before the
wars…
kawawa yung mga
tao.
pero mas kawawa
yung sa Middle East.
the so-called
Roman Empire.
You have read
the Inquisition,
kung may birth
mark ka
you are a witch
and you are
burned at stake.
That line -- I
think that ... sabi ko nga ... Surreal indeed, the unconscious, rather
addled, mind finding expression in the irrational juxtaposition of verbiage.
Fentanyl? Dotage?
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