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Philippine Digest
128 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 1972
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October 20, 2016
I think this was an alternative to the more popular Reader's Digest. Of course, because it wasn't as popular, it became a defunct magazine. Despite this, it was a good picture of a time almost immediately before Marcos's declaration of Martial Law. In addition, it also enlightened me with regard to the population problem Philippines had, even then.
The articles were mostly good, and provided smooth reading. I loved one contributor's jibe at Marcos:
Anno Marcosi
Edilberto Guerrero
Anno Marcosi, night
is masks, all black.
O my truncheon it,
they truncheon it,
bless it with teargas.
My own grief I spurn,
it stinks, my soul shivers
among piled carcasses.
O subversive sweetness?
There again, go they.
Damn them all - brutes!
The articles were mostly good, and provided smooth reading. I loved one contributor's jibe at Marcos:
Anno Marcosi
Edilberto Guerrero
Anno Marcosi, night
is masks, all black.
O my truncheon it,
they truncheon it,
bless it with teargas.
My own grief I spurn,
it stinks, my soul shivers
among piled carcasses.
O subversive sweetness?
There again, go they.
Damn them all - brutes!
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