Transcriber's Note: Dr. José Rizal wrote this last poem before he was executed on December 30,1896 in Bagumbayan. Although the poem was originally untitled, we have opted to use the more popular reference for this poem in this edition.
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Men carry a mattress retrieved
from a dumpster past the flooded
foundations of an unfinished
high-rise, an old woman catches
a pigeon in the folds of her dress
the dead smile and rise from swimming
pools or stand at attention
on stamps. The...
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