esto es lo que escribí
el otro día
pensando en tí
esto es lo que escribí
una tontera
un garabato
un no se qué
no soy poeta
pero a veces
las palabras
suenan
en el aire
queman
en la tinta
y quieren voz
y quieren papel
y quieren vida
y quieren ser
esto es lo que escribí
el otro día
pensando en tí
y no dijiste nada
Friday, June 29, 2007
Thursday, June 28, 2007
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
97 Quiet Smiles
Grandma is visiting; and i love her.
She's tiny, stubborn, hazel droopy eyes, soft light brown hair, sun moles on her pale skin, bratty, funny, sweet elusive smile, quiet soft voice, quiet heart.
The past is right here with me right now, roaming inside my tiny Pittsburg house, from room to room, from window to window, from book to photo album, from quiet corner to loud TV set. She gets bored. I don't blame her. TV is boring when there are only a few spanish channels. Books might be somewhat boring when you forget every word you just read. Conversations are boring when people keep telling you that you just said that.
I guess life is boring when you're 97. I feel bad. I wish i could keep her entertained all the time, but i have work to do also. And things to do, and people to talk to, and books to read, and TVs to watch, and places to drive to, and dreams to dream, and life to live.
I guess life is busy when you're 30.
Grandma is visiting this week. She forgets things all the time.
Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's frustrating.
I wish i could crawl inside her past and grab her memories and save them
from time and age. I'd like to see where she's been, who she's talked to, why she cried and when, when was she the happiest. She doesn't smile much
in pictures. Never has. But she smiles with people.
She lost her sister at a young age. Lost her boyfriend and then her father.
Lost an unborn child. Lost her husband. Lost 3 siblings. And i wonder how many friends and other relatives. Maybe that is the reason why her smile doesn't like the camera. But she smiles for me, and with me, when my patience feels like sticking around.
Grandma is visiting; and i love her.
And i want to throw a big 100 year birthday party for her in May 2010.
And i want her family to be together, because i know that that's all
she's ever wanted. But this country is big, and this planet is big.
Grandma is visiting; and i love her.
But sometimes she drives me crazy;
and it's okay because she is 97, and forgets things,
and is stubborn and nosy and gets bored easily
and snoozes here and there.
And i love her.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Cejas Negras
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Golpe de Acentos
Me llega que no encuentro la manera de ponerle
acentos a mis vocales en esta lap top.
Me encanta el castellano, es un idioma bello, me encanta hablarlo y escribirlo...
pero recien hace poco me percarte que es mucho mas facil tipear
en ingles porque no tengo que apretar 'alt + algun numero' para tildar
alguna vocal. Y cuando reviso mis palabras, como lo estoy haciendo ahora,
las encuentro todas tristes sin sus sombreritos diagonales encima.
Lo raro es que recien ahora, despues de mas de 11 anos (ahhhh...donde estan mi enies??),
me fastidie el asunto. Parece que la ortografia me vino asi de golpe. Como la nostalgia. Como la noche. Como las canas.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Como el Agua
It was nice to talk to you last night. We used to be such close friends. Y de pronto... no sé que pasó. La vida quizá. Los aires malos, las rabias, el tiempo efervescente. Yo sé que siempre vamos a ser amigos, al menos mientras vivamos bajo el mismo cielo, porque tú no eres de keep in touch... al menos no conmigo. Pero me da un poco de nostalgia que no seamos tan close como lo éramos antes. En fin, es parte de la vida i guess, es parte de crecer, es parte de envejecer.
Lo que no sé es por qué algo me hincó cuando mencionaste el viaje ese, otra vez, al mismo sitio, con 'las amigas de las amigas'. Después de colgar, me quedé pensando con el techo a oscuras el por qué de ese gusanillo dando vueltas en mi angustia. No demoré mucho en adivinarlo, es obvio, y además, ya lo había adivinado antes, hace precisamente un año. Es la demostración de lo insignificante que fuí, que era, que soy yo en su vida. La teoría puesta en práctica. Los hechos dicen mucho más que las palabras. Conmigo nunca un viaje, a ningún lado, 2 años y nada. En cambio a penas se terminó la historia, y mientras yo pensaba en cómo seguir respirando, él no perdió ni un día en planear su viaje, como para celebrar, con sus amigos. Y eso me quemó como el fuego. Ya no me duele como hace un año, pero lamentablemente todavía no puedo decir que ya no me duele en lo absoluto. Me da pena sí, saber que no fuí nada y que en cambio él sí fue algo para mí: sueño, sueño y tiempo. Pero eso ya quedó atrás. Como siempre las historias rosas tienen sus rojos y negros, y rojos y negros fueron esos días. I laid my aching body on the bed and waited for his demons to leave my pain, and when they finally did, my own demons came back home. And slowly... i became myself again. Casi una metamorfosis. Casi un exorcismo. Casi una resurrección. Y aunque nunca se me incrustó el rencor bajo la piel, la pena did adhere to my skin, like mold. But i'll take sadness over bitterness always. El rencor perfora, arde, incendia. Un amigo, aunque él ya no lo recuerde, me dijo algo una vez que yo nunca olvido: 'no seas como el fuego, sé como el agua'.
Me alegró mucho conversar contigo anoche. Me dieron ganas de preguntarte por él, que cómo le iba, pero me dí cuenta que yo nunca he sido de jugar esos jueguitos así que no lo hice. Si de verdad me interesa saber como está, pues lo llamo y punto en vez de esconderme tras el silencio y la distancia y mandar algún weak pero sincero 'mándale saludos' que jamás le llegará. Pero no lo quiero llamar. Sé, porque lo conozco bien, que la pared indiferente del otro lado del teléfono me va a amargar el momento, y prefiero no hacerlo. Yo sé que ya estoy lista para retomar la amistad que teníamos antes, antes de cruzar esa línea, antes de todo ese cielo e infierno que inventamos. Ya estoy lista. Y trato de ser agua, siempre agua. Aunque a veces sienta que me ahogo.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
so you wanna be a writer
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.
don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious,
don't be consumed with self-love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.
when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.
there is no other way.
and there never was.
- Charles Bukowski -
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.
don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious,
don't be consumed with self-love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.
when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.
there is no other way.
and there never was.
- Charles Bukowski -
Nueva en esto
A blog. A blog ? I've never known why people write blogs. Y mas aún, why people read blogs. I guess it's like a journal, and i have a journal. No es un diario, no escribo mis vivencias del día en las páginas. Escribo... no sé, pensamientos, sentimientos más que nada, trato con los versos y con los no-versos... pero un blog? Y para qué?? No sé, pero ayer ví a mi office-mate escribiendo en el suyo y pensé 'well... i guess i can give it a try and see what happens' Y ya pe. Aquí toy. Todavía no sé bien como funciona esto... y en realidad debería estar trabajando porque tengo muchísimo que hacer, muchísimo más que siempre, pero... no me provoca, y estoy con esto del famoso blog, y me duele un poco el estómago... es el vacío. No es sólo el estómago que está vacío, pero en fin... ya habrán letras para eso después. A ver... 'save now' ? Save me now, someone.
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