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Rice
For
the
lloon
Manuel
S.
Diaz
Pamulinawen
Translation
bY
L.
Yabes
Pamulinawen,
mY
love,
Please
heu
Ple
who
am
sighing,
tonging
for
You;
Kindly
thou
think,
kndly
do
not
tum
deaf
To
me
who
an
longtng
for
You.
forget
I never
can
Yow
most
sweet
and
beloved
name;
No
matter
where
(l
an),
if
I
remember
you,
lly
heat
leaPs
with
ioY,
rAfter
a
mythical
bind,
This
badengor
love
song
is uniquely
Ilokano.
Prehispanlc,
it remains
popular until
today'
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IN
NA0SMO,
when
the
moon
peered over
the
high
Caraballo
Mountain
while
we
were
eating,
Mother
would
get
up
from
the
table,
spade
her
fingers
into
the
smoking
rice,
scoop
out
a handful
then
run
to
the
open
window
and
hurl
the
cereal
toward
the
moon,
siying
under
her
breath:
'llle'll eat
ahead
ofyou''
ihis
was
aritualwhich
Motheralways performed
every
night
after
the
full
moon,
in the
belief
that
an
offering
to
the
moon
brought
good
luck,
which
Father
scoffed
at,
but
I myself
tended
to
believe
because
after
the
rice
was
thrown,
the
moon
would
usually
shine
with
more
luster,
bringrng
us
children
out
into
the
bright
night
to
laugh
and
play'
But the war came and
in
its wake carne hunger
and
fear,
hahed
and
death'
Mother
stopped
throwing
rice to the
moon,
since
we
seldom
had
rice,
only
those
sometimes
when
Father
could
go
to
the
rich
man,
Don
0aspar,
who
lived
near
the
mountains'
fle
would
bring
home
a
ganta
each
time,
which
was
enough
fortwo
orthree
meals.
Mothermade
do.with
cassava
and
sweet
ptatoes which
Eew
bountifully
on
our
farm
and
which
we
would
eat
with
wilted
vegetable
leaves
and
salted
fish.
The
dry
and
bitter
taste
of
the
cassava
urould
kick
at
my
stomaclt
although
I
did
my best
to
pretend
that
it
was
rice'
But, of
course,
I never
succeeded.
The
way
Mother
looked
atme,l
didn'td
almysneedledher,tel
moon.
ltlhichshercsei
OnedaY,
tlomet
usthatttre
bigwarmtgl
why,'the
two
men
sait
trills,close
to
the
geal
nigh ,
we
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family+nd
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as
so