“We alone are the face of our time.”

 

                                   -  Russian Futurist Manifesto

 

 

 

                    Before the young boy committed suicide

 

                    he sent a letter to a newspaper columnist

 

                    saying it had to be  --  there was no other way.

 

                    He said it would be good for everybody

 

                    and best for a sister

 

                    before she too learned it was indeed so.

 

                    At the time of his death his father,

 

                    praised for his ideas and ideals

 

                    and true to his commitment,

 

                    was at the public office,

 

                    sleepless for several nights now,

 

                    trying to figure out how best

 

                    to give more of himself to his public duties.

 

                    While his mother, seated among friends at a tea party

 

                    was explaining about her club’s latest project

 

                    to bring education and culture

 

                    to the lost souls of Isla Puting-Bato.