Patron Saints of Nothing
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Prologue Wisdom from On High Unanswered How He Lived An Improvement to Society A Narrower Country Than Expected Let Me Go Grounded Things Inside Like a Fog The Strength of My Conviction A New Silence Arrives Some Small Rebellion Every Single Surviving Word Not an Answer to the Question Lead the Way You Can Hold on to Me If You Need To All That it Means A Visit The Word of God That Last Part Aloud A Complete Waste Fail Him in Death This Poem is a Typhoon Let’s Do It The Wide Eyes of the Lost A Universe Where People Do Not Die for Doing What is Right Everyone Loses Their Shit To Flood Its Center Unsolved Another Day in the Minefield Go Back to Sleep Bravery As if It Were My Own The Darkness Uninterrupted New Life Headfirst Across the Muddy Grass To Resurrect How to Live Without Him All the Darkness in the World A Seed Every Detail of This Finite Moment Our Separate Ways Patron Saints of Nothing
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All Themes Truth, Adolescence, and Justice Responsibility, Guilt, and Blame Culture and Belonging Death and Meaning
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All Characters Jay Reguero Jun Tito Maning Grace Tita Chato Jay’s Dad Mia Reyna Tito Danilo Jay’s Mom Angel Tita Ami Brian Santos Seth Em Chris Tita Ines María Lolo Lola
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All Terms Balikbayan box
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Patron Saints of Nothing

by

Randy Ribay

Patron Saints of Nothing Terms

Balikbayan box

The word balikbayan literally translates to “return to country” in Tagalog and refers to a Filipino individual who comes back to the Philippines after a period of at least a year abroad. A balikbayan box… read analysis of Balikbayan box
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