domingo, marzo 20, 2011
martes, marzo 15, 2011
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us--don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
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"Hope" is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
that kept so many warm -
I've heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
-Emily Dickinson
martes, marzo 08, 2011
lunes, marzo 07, 2011
martes, febrero 15, 2011
lunes, enero 31, 2011
esta costumbre mansa del salvajismo ajeno
cada vez que contemplo el placer en los otros
mi costado anhelante mi parte fugitiva
se complace de estar con los que no me ven
de asentir al amor desconocido
de espiar quien no soy
de fornicar sin mí
veo películas
perversiones caseras
estoy feliz de estar aquí con nadie.
Andrés Neuman
El sexo de las piedras
Las piedras no tienen hijos. Si se juntan dos piedras, si se pone una encima de la otra, y se espera, ninguna se preña.
Las piedras no tienen hijos. Es más, si se levanta una piedra y se la deja en la mano, si se la observa lentamente, no ofrece sexo.
Algunas piedras presentan ranuras, presuntas grietas vaginales, profundas.
En ocasiones, el musgo húmedo simula el bozo del pubis, la lisura de otras, la redondez causada por el meteoro y los elementos, semeja formas femeninas. Pero las redondeces y los senos no tienen ni el más remoto gesto de producir una gota de leche.
No son senos en verdad, son formas naturales de la piedra. Formas que esculpió el destino en la piedra.
Casualidades. Episodios de la materia.
No son esferas propiamente dichas. Son casualidades redondas. No se trata de glúteos, son gajos de piedra. Y aunque aparezca un pozo central y sombrío entre las nalgas pétreas ese pozo no es anal, es el agujero que hizo la lágrima del agua al llorar en la piedra, durante miles de años, durante miles de millones de años.
La lluvia lloró en la espalda de la piedra hasta crear la ilusión, el atisbo de un agujero frío y ríspido en donde poner el dedo y no sentir nada.
El dedo en el agujero, en el borde irregular que creó el llanto milenario del agua en el centro de la piedra. El hueco inconducente. Áspero.
Y si se da vuelta esa misma piedra y se vuelve a mirar la vulva aparente, si se recorre con la yema del dedo la arista de los pelos de musgo, el terciopelo verde, se siente sí una humedad. Pero es una humedad fría, porosa, inculta. Distante de lo femenino. Diferente del órgano sexual.
Casi no existen piedras masculinas. Es mucho más difícil encontrar una piedra así.
Sin embargo, algunos guijarros, ciertos cantos rodados, por su disposición, por su peculiar destello bajo el agua o apoyados en tierra sin más fuerza que la falible maravilla de su apariencia recuerdan la alegría curva de Dios, su deseo vivo endurecido.
Rafael Courtoisie
miércoles, enero 19, 2011
jueves, diciembre 23, 2010
a que se les ha sometido
y que ustedes aceptan
sumisamente
sin rebeldía
con una larga, peluda y roñosa
cobardía entre las patas.
(Animación en el parque.)
para que el número de Sociedades Protectoras de Animales
aumente al mismo ritmo
del crecimiento demográfico de los perros.Canallas.
Otros
por el mejor trabajo
de los veterinarios.
Sinvergüenzas.
Unos más
porque las vacunas antirrábicas
se repartan a pasto.
(Murmullos de aprobación.)Camaradas perros:Ustedes lo saben mejor que yo.
Lo espío ya en sus ojos.
Hay que hacer a un lado la perrera egoísta
o el árbol
por la individuación humedecido.
Desenterrar el hueso colectivo del atreverse.
Armar una jauría
darle existencia histórica a las fauces
En esta lucha.
En este joderse.
En esta pasión
no vaya a ser que otros les coman el mandado.
No vaya a ser que los perros guardianes.
No vaya a ser que los perros de presa
o los perros policía.
No vaya a ser que los canes cultivados,
los que cuelgan su rosal de ladridos
en medio de los jardines.
No vaya a ser que los advenedizos,
los que sólo hasta ahora merodean
a sus propias mandíbulas y dientes.
No vaya a ser.No vaya a ser que aquellos,
cuando ustedes destruyan este mundo,
se erijan en los nuevos mandarines
chorreantes de colmillos.
Y que ustedes se queden
sufriendo nuevamentesu existencia de perros.
Bajó del montículo que le servía de estrado.
Y una insinuante perra que atravesó la calle
le dio en la madre al mitin.
a la pálida flor de la justicia,
martes, diciembre 14, 2010
A TEN STEP PROGRAM...
* Originally published in Crayon (2004)
A TEN STEP PROGRAM (OR A USER’S GUIDE)
ON HOW | MEXICANS AND | AMERICANS |
CAN KNOW | THEY HAVE | A BODY
1
(A phone call).
Receiving a Phone Call
(Long Distance Phone Call).
A phone call with no bodies
(Just the Long Distance Sound).
A phone call made on the subject
Of the arrival of the American Body.
A phone call made by the Mexican President
indicating to Castro
(the Cuban Horse)
Indicating to him (Fidel) he has to leave our country (our body), when the American Body, The American President (the Son) arrives into our land | enters into our flesh. (Castro has to leave). He has to leave his place so another body can take it. He had to leave so the other body, the American one (the Son) could enter into our body, our sexual body, the political one.
2
Remembering we have | A Body |
by way of LDS
(Language
Discomfort
Syndrome).
Remembering
The way the body feels
When the mind
And the voice
Switch
From one language to another.
The way it’s going to feel when we
(“The Mexicans”)
switch into English.
The way our mind and body
Become
Disconnected when such a Language Event
Happens
(to us).
3
Applying torture.
That’s an easy way
to find out
others do have
(a discourse on) pain.
Applying torture
Or
Declaring war to the body
Of the Other
(The Afghan | The Zapatista)
Destroying another body
That’s a good way
To find out
We may have a body too.
A discourse.
4
Being a woman.
Moving to Juárez.
(Traffic).
Moving to Juárez.
Being a woman.
Getting a job in a maquiladora
(Ford | Samsung | Matsuchita | Qualcom)
Moving to Juárez.
Getting a job in a maquiladora.
Being a woman.
Getting rapped
by a serial killer
or a death squad.
Copy cat. Quote.
(800 women have felt that
in the last 10 years
In Juárez)
Becoming a body.
And then being found
in an empty lot
in the outskirts of the city
with a torn T-Shirt
that says:
“California.
The Golden State”.
5
Feeling stressed.
Experiencing our body
Thanks
To the Sickness
The New World Order
Gave US:
Stress.
6
Going to Tijuana.
Because Tijuana is
(according to The Simpsons)
The happiest place on Earth.
And it is the maquiladora town
Where 75 five per cent
Of all television sets
Are produced.
It is also the most crossed border in the world, and the place where thousands of Americans, hang out every weekend, the place where:
a) They have Fun
b) Feel beautiful and loved
and C) In control.
(Mexico is the place where Americans feel they really are
“Americans”).
7
Using
Language exchange rates
(Body Surplus)
Violence is the American Way (A quote)
Violence is the American Way (A quote)
And we cannot help but to be Americans in that sense.
We are all Americans now
(even the French).
8
Being a man.
Moving to the border.
Finding a pollero.
Waiting for the right moment
to illegally cross.
No helicopters around.
No trucks.
Walking.
Hating the sun.
Being a man.
Moving to the border.
Finding a pollero.
Walking [to what’s called the Other Side].
And then, getting beaten
by some American I.N.S. Agent
Who needs to feel his body
as the body of a Real Man.
9
Fearing
Another attack.
That’s too
Another step
To remember
We still have
A body
Left.
10
(The pleasure).
(Through the pleasure)
The pleasure of uploading
into the Internet
Uploading
Without our bodies
(The Relief)
The relief of entering
Cyberspace
(The Final
Common Place)
Uploading ourselves
into the Internet
Without our bodies.
Our bodies that hurt so much
And viewing
And buying
With credit cards the image
(just the image)
(of the bodies)
(of the bodies of the others).
Restrictions apply.
lunes, diciembre 13, 2010
[...]
So let's get back, more or less, to LSD. As it is true that the less you get the more you chance - say beet-picking - it is also true that the more you get the more you chance. Any explorative complexity - painting, writing poetry, robbing banks, being a dictator and so forth, takes you to that place where danger and miracle are rather like Siamese twins. You seldom go wire to wire, but while you're going the living is fairly interesting.
[...]
LSD can flake you too because it is not an arena for loyal shipping clerks. Granted, bad acid like bad whores can take you out. Bathtub gin, bootleg liquor had its day too. The law creates its own disease in poisonous black markets. But, basically, most bad trips are caused by the individual being trained and poisoned beforehand by society itself. If a man is worried about rent, car payments, time-clocks, a college education for his child, a 12-dollar dinner for his girlfriend, the opinion of his neighbor, standing up for the flag or what is going to happen to Brenda Starr, an LSD tablet will most probably drive him mad because, in a sense, he is already insane and only borne along social tides by the outward bars and dull hammers that render him insensible to any individualistic thinking. A trip calls for a man who has not yet been caged, who has not yet been fucked by the big Fear that makes all society go. Unfortunately, most men overestimate their worthiness as basic and free individuals, and it is the mistake of the hippie generation not to trust anybody over 30. 30 doesn't mean a damn thing. Most beings are captured and trained, totally, by the age of 7 or 8. Many of the young LOOK free but this is only a chemical thing of body and energy and not a realistic thing of spirit. I have met free men in the strangest of places and at ALL ages - as janitors, car thieves, car washers, and some free women too - mostly as nurses or waitresses, and at ALL ages. The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
An LSD trip will show you things which no rules cover. It will show you things not in textbooks and things which you cannot protest to your city councilman about. Grass only makes the present society more bearable; LSD is another society within itself. If you are socially orientated, you can probably mark lsd off as a "hallucinogenic drug," which is an easy way of getting off and forgetting the whole thing. But hallucination, the definition of it, depends upon which pole you are operating from. Whatever is happening to you at the time it is happening does become the reality - it can be a movie, a dream, sexual intercourse, murder, being murdered or eating ice cream. Only lies are imposed later; what happens, happens. Hallucination is only a dictionary word and a social stilt. When a man is dying to him it is very real; to others, it is only bad luck or something to be disposed of. Forest Lawn takes care of everything. When the world begins to admit that ALL the parts fit the whole, then we may begin to have a chance. Whatever a man sees is real. It was not brought there by an outside force, it was there before he was born. don't blame him because he sees it now, and don't blame him for going mad because the educational and spiritual forces of society were not wise enough to tell him that exploration never ends, and that we must all be little shits boxed in with our a, b, c's and nothing else. It is not LSD that causes the bad trip - it was your mother, your President, the little girl next door, the icecream man with dirty hands, a course in algebra or Spanish superimposed, it was the stench of a crapper in 1926, it was a man with a nose too long when you were told long noses were ugly; it was laxative, it was the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, it was lemon drops, it was working in a factory for ten years and getting fired because you were five minutes late, it was that old bag who taught you American history in the 6th grade, it was your dog run over and nobody to properly draw you the map afterwards, it was a list 30 pages long and 3 miles tall.
A bad trip? This whole country, this whole world is on a bad trip, friend. Bet they'll arrest you swallowing a tablet.
I'm still on the beer because basically, at 47, they've got a lot of hooks in me. I'd be a real damn fool to think that I've escaped all their nets. I think Jeffers said it pretty well when he said, more or less, look out for the traps, friend, there are plenty of them, they say even God got trapped when He once walked on Earth. Of course, now some of us are not so sure it was god, but whoever he was, he had some fairly good tricks but it seemed he talked too much. Anybody can talk too much. Even Leary. Or me.
viernes, diciembre 10, 2010
traía una grapa de cocaína
me preguntó si yo venía de Marte
y yo si ella provenía de Venus.
"Déjate de mamadas morrito"
fue lo único que dijo.
Después de todo
estoy pensando abandonar los mundos virtuales
tomé la decisión
y la comuniqué a mis amigos más cercanos.
Áurea Centuria no quiere que tengamos contacto
"somos incompatibles" -dijo;
pero no me retiraré a causa de ella
es un sentimiento más profundo
voy en busca de un mundo más plausible
no imaginativo
no las tonterías que escriben los poetas iletrados
como Áurea Centuria
una de las últimas poetas formadas en la vieja escuela
donde el conocimiento lo dividen en pedazos
llamados asignaturas.
Me alejo de Áurea Centuria sola en el monte
fumando marihuana,
creo que me hace falta una mujer para vivir.
jueves, diciembre 09, 2010
miércoles, diciembre 01, 2010
Yo soy un niño común
domingo, noviembre 28, 2010
ANIMALS
Have you forgotten what we were like then
when we were still first rate
and the day came fat with an apple in its mouth
it's no use worrying about Time
but we did have a few tricks up our sleeves
and turned some sharp corners
the whole pasture looked like our meal
we didn't need speedometers
we could manage cocktails out of ice and water
I wouldn't want to be faster
or greener than now if you were with me O you
were the best of all my days
[1950]
AVE MARIA
Mothers of America
let your kids go to the movies!
get them out of the house so they won't know what you're up to
it's true that fresh air is good for the body
but what about the soul
that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images
and when you grow old as grow old you must
they won't hate you
they won't criticize you they won't know
they'll be in some glamorous country
they first saw on a Saturday afternoon or playing hookey
they may even be grateful to you
for their first sexual experience
which only cost you a quarter
and didn't upset the peaceful home
they will know where candy bars come from
and gratuitous bags of popcorn
as gratuitous as leaving the movie before it's over
with a pleasant stranger whose apartment is in the Heaven on Earth Bldg
near the Williamsburg Bridge
oh mothers you will have made the little tykes
so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies
they won't know the difference
and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy
and they'll have been truly entertained either way
instead of hanging around the yard
or up in their room
hating you
prematurely since you won't have done anything horribly mean yet
except keeping them from the darker joys
it's unforgivable the latter
so don't blame me if you won't take this advice
and the family breaks up
and your children grow old and blind in front of a TV set
seeing
movies you wouldn't let them see when they were young
[1960]
Frank O'Hara


