The recipe invites itself to eat and laughs at its own jokes.
Puns of tripled and quadruped meanings.
Was I ratting on you?
I invite everyone. Everyone is my friend.
Would you like some of my sandwich?
I really mean you can come forward
with your mouth open.
Once, I wrote a play. There was only one scene.
A girl lists the food she wants to eat.
Jasmine rice sautéed in garlic and sesame oil. A fish you caught yourself.
I put gold flecks in the sauce so everyone will know how happy we are.
I call the play Loves You Long Time.
The manuscripts are drying and dying out in mouldering museums.
Pick one:
1. Filipinos don’t care about their history
2. Filipinos can’t afford to preserve the manuscripts in this kind of tropical heat.
3. Los manuscripts no existe. I only told you about them because I love you and you love me.
From Loves You. Copyright © 2019 by Sarah Gambito. Used with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Persea Books.