Miserable Miracle
A.X. Ledesma

Around 13 years ago, a friend of mine shared a bizarre video called ‘BongBong LRT Speech (w subtitles)’, featuring a man on the LRT reciting a largely continuous monologue in a mixture of English, Filipino, fragments of broken Spanish, and unintelligible gibberish. He is interrupted twice. The first pause seems to be prompted by a security guard asking him not to disturb the other passengers. His silence lasts for a few seconds before his rant continues. The second disruption takes on the form of a threat.