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Francisco B. Icasiano
Ningas Cogon
Most of Icasiano’s essays were published in periodicals under the pen name of “Mang Kiko”. He wrote on various subjects, often in a light vein
although there were always deeper implications in his work. The essay, which follows, deals with a common Filipino Characteristic.
- Is a reed-like plant of the grass family which usually grows near river beds and in wide uncultivated lands.
Cogon
This quality of the reed-like plant has given the Tagalog an idiom ningas-kugon, “burns like the cogon”. It burns fast and dies fast.