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Old Maid
Vivian Nocum Limpin
Philippines, theGALLERYCONVERSATION
I looked around me for some answers:
Perhaps they’re written in my poems.
Perhaps they’re sketched in my paintings.
Perhaps they’re framed in my films.
I tried hard to remember
if this is what I chose:
the camera instead of the casserole,
the canvas instead of the cradle,
the metaphor instead of a mate.

You’re still asking me
why I still don’t have a partner.
Never in my whole life
did I consider being single
as a curse.
I won’t look around for a while
even if you ask one more time.
The answer might still be long in coming.
Perhaps they’re written in my poems.
Perhaps they’re sketched in my paintings.
Perhaps they’re framed in my films.
I tried hard to remember
if this is what I chose:
the camera instead of the casserole,
the canvas instead of the cradle,
the metaphor instead of a mate.

You’re still asking me
why I still don’t have a partner.
Never in my whole life
did I consider being single
as a curse.
I won’t look around for a while
even if you ask one more time.
The answer might still be long in coming.
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