alejandro t. acierto

“He gave his life to satisfy the State”
—Last Mile Blues, Ida Cox

“If there is no fear in the law, wala yan …Yung hanging, once the spine is ripped off inside, wala na. Just like putting off a light.”
—statement by then presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte, May 17, 2016

This is an elegy for the departed, for the incarcerated, for those forced out from their lands. It is a pause and a repeating, a suspension of time tracing the shape of a fall tethered to imported wooden posts. A temporary site for study, a resting space within and among the undercommons, an active performance of refusal and fugitive planning