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I love it! I love it!This teargas sanctifies my corrupted soul.Ah! The divine odor of it, the excitementbetter than demos or rock and roll.

Get a load of it, brother, while its free,you may never get another chance;this is the right stuff, the real McCoy,pure, imported chemicals from France.

We may not have money in the bank,no food on the table, no seat on the Love Bus,but we have secret marshals and policemenand most of all, we have a lot of teargas.

Get a load of it, brother, while its free,you may never get another chance;this is the right stuff, the real McCoy,pure, imported chemicals from France.

We may not have houses and running water,the taxmen may be running after us,but we have floods, garbage, Amendment 6,and most of all, we have a lot of teargas.

Get a load of it, brother, while its free,you may never get another chance;this is the right stuff, the real McCoy,pure, imported chemicals from France.Dont save your tears, brother, they are meantto be shed, you cannot turn them into cash,but if you join me in this martial festival

youll get a taste of refreshing teargas.

Get a load of it, brother, while its free,you may never get another chance;this is the right stuff, the real McCoy,pure, imported chemicals from France

Songs of a Tear gassed Man

In this poem, the poet creates for us a situation where we are made to see man

That could be a rallys during the Martial Law. He speaks of his experience from having

To be tear gassed by the policemen. Hes encouraging somebody to join him from his

Struggle. The poem has 7 stanzas. The stanzas 2, 4, & 6 have the same lines w\c says.

Get aloud of it, brother while its free,

You may never get another chance,

This is the right stuff, the real McCoy,

Pure imported chemicals from Frame.

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From this stanza, the man was persuading somebody to be w\ him in his struggle. He maybe one of those ralllyists

fighting for their freedom from the Marcos regime. He has been tear gassed in return and for him his having the real

taste of his fighting the one whom was the responsible from there struggles.

In the first stanza w\c says:

I love it! I love it!

This tear gassed sanctifies my corrupted soul.

Oh! The divine color of it, the excitement

Better than demos or rock & roll.

On the metaphorical level of interpretation, Bautista points out to us that instead of hating the situation his facing his

expressing the opposite feeling towards the situation.

In the 3rd stanza w\c says

We may not have money in the bank,

No food on the table, no seat on the Love been,

But we have secret marshals & policemen

& most of all we have a lot of teargas.

From the choice of words of Bautista, hes actually describing he status of the man in the poem. If hes not able to have

money in the bank, no food on the table, no seat on the love een, then this man was one of those in the poverty level of

Filipinos living during the Marcos regime. Hes been living in the streets, fighting for freedom because hes been

already to teargas as stated in this line, but we have secret marshals & policemen & most of all we have a lot of

teargas.

Dont save your tears, brother,

They are meant to be shed,

You cannot turn them into cash,

But if you join me in this martial festival

Youll get a taste of refreshing tear gas.

From this stanza, hes showing braveness to persuade his other fellow Filipino brothers to join the force & fight the

administration of the Marcoss. Hes suggesting that if more people joined the rally, they will be able to make the

Marcoss to step down from their position & they will soon have the freedom & peace that they needed from the start.

In the 5thstanza

We may not have houses or running water,

The taxmen may be running after us,

But we have floods, garbage, amendment 6,

& most of all we have a lot of teargas.

From this stanza, you could see the similarity in the 3 rdstanza. The description of way of living of the man in the poem

was being described. He has been living to a most Filipino living during the Martial Law. There are taxes to be fade &

what they got was all hardships.