The (Bicol Express) train stops here once more (This one’s for you, Caloy Aureus: Scholar, Bikolano)

To wake up at 3 in the morning is to wake up for the gods. Or that’s how strong my faith was when I decided one day to take the train that once more moved between Naga the city in Camarines Sur and Legazpi City in Albay. I have to emphasize the provincial appellation of the first city, a site often belabored as an ancient city by cultural workers, because there is another Naga City in Cebu.

The train could bear anything, anything at all, including the greatest heartbreaks a young man suffered in the hands of a lovely Bikolana or a strappingly handsome Bikolano. A few repairs had been done on the old buildings around the station. But it felt old. Abandoned. The place was a ghost of its old self.

The ticket came: watermarked. NG to LG. Does that mean “Naga to Legazpi”? There were blanks left unmarked. No name for Station. No Train number. No Class.

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