Culture

Marlon Moala-Knox

if you believe Feletoa,

while Cook was busy deciding that Tonga was named

‘the Friendly Islands’

the chiefs were plotting to murder him

but they couldn’t get their shit together in time

and instead they let him go.

to me that’s fakafonua,

embodied in the twelfth movie ticket that appears and

disappears between

120 Moala fingers, confusing the adults and amusing the kids

morphing into something we might have never had

and Uncle Penitoa doesn’t get to see the movie.

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