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El Sistema Respiratorio
En tu arduo trabajo bajo el azote de ese astro delirante que arroja su oscilante furia hacia todos nosotros recuerda, de vez en cuando, contraer el diafragma hacia tu centro y expandir esos globos desgastados mientras dejas fluir hacia ellos la densa invisibilidad de la vida. Entre túneles oscuros navega esa parte de la vida fría, seca y rodeada de la decadencia del mundo moderno. Debe pasar por filtros viscosos, húmedos y salados que la purifican antes de llegar a su destino, el cual es el motor o la voluntad de algo que se halla en guerra con la extinción. Pero su destino no está al final del túnel y así como Dante en su comedia medieval, esa esencia vital se adentra en cavernas espaciosas habitadas desde los márgenes por guerreros, productores y comerciantes. La presencia de esa esencia mística causa tensión en las cavernas a tal punto que solo puede ser aliviada por el flujo de ríos rojos, como en los tiempos de Moisés, que corren adyacentes a las cavernas. Estos ríos arrebatan la esencia de ese lugar lúgubre, la montan en góndolas y la transportan hacia muelles donde no cause tanta tensión su presencia. Ahí, en ese muelle del que los poetas no pueden zarpar, la densa invisibilidad de la vida coopera para manifestarse de forma visible en ti.
Una vez que llega a su destino esta esencia invisible, ¿que regresa por esos caminos circulares? El diafragma se relaja, la tensión en las cavernas se reduce, y las góndolas ahora cargan con esa otra parte invisible de la vida que deriva de la nuestra. Esa vida que no nos pertenece toma su lugar en las góndolas para transformarse en el regulador de esos ríos que nunca desembocan en ninguna parte y solo continúan con su eterno retorno. Ese ente regulador se encarga de, como si fuera arte de magia, controlar el volumen y la velocidad de todo lo que fluye por esos ríos. Una vez de vuelta en los muelles de las cavernas, ese ente vuelve a su forma original y atraviesa las cavernas para viajar por esos mismos túneles de donde saldrá húmedo, cálido y buscando vida más organizada que la suya. Quizás tendrá la misma suerte que su homóloga y encontrará algún organismo donde pueda manifestarse de forma visible. No puede ser más que ese otro organismo inmóvil con el que compartimos este mundo en términos de absoluta reciprocidad y codependencia. Recuerda respirar pues…
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Letter From A Surrealist To A Dreamer. (Lo que aprendí de Bolaño)
Morpheus’ servant whom I ask to never stop supplying the God of Dreams with the labor of expanding His kingdom. Dear friend of this ever-elusive soul that seems to always drift away from the company of good, old friends, and land with new, rare acquaintances that it casually meets on the way. In the act of writing this letter the chaotic rivers flowing through my mind ooze happiness for I am finally reaching out to you after many years. I am well-aware of your situation. In the worst-case scenario, I’d be honored to receive such an artist in this humble, but never artless nor heartless, place that I share with two other fellow artists. The place is small, however, in combination with the dwellers who live on the same floor, we host the best parties that Mexico City puts on.
Important to mention, our guests are carefully selected. Even though some so called intellectuals have had the pleasure to join us, you’ll never hear about us in the high spheres of Mexican society. We have kept the movement as a clandestine experiment, something of which Breton would be proud. The parties are burning poetry. We have empty frames we found in dumpsters (and never used because the paint is too expensive) hanging from the ceiling and distributed throughout the living room. The guests wear ornaments and amulets of all sorts and walk or dance behind the frames while my roommates observe and instill in their heads more eternities than Christ. Or ephemeralities; sorry, I get these two confused. They are selfish painters. Their work is so ephemerous one can never obtain a snapshot of it to reveal a technique employed or how the catharsis was evoked. It’s like dark science. It resembles a chemical reaction in which the reagents and the products are the same thing. However, there is a transition state on the mechanism that shines and burns. A flickering dynamic flame that will keep on thriving and flickering as long as there is something that needs to flourish. If this state was to last longer or shorter, not only its mysticism would be lost, but we’d all be lost. Catharsis theory is a joke though.
Even if my reception arranged for you in this hypothetical scenario was a success, I’d still be worried about the necessity for you to adapt in this contaminated lake full of stacked, overwhelmed fishes trapped in six-pack rings that is Mexico City. You would’ve had been sent to this semi-sterile land from which your roots sucked in its first nutrients. You’d be back now after they mutilated the dream, the petals, and left only a few discolored, dried, and thirsty roots. You are a tragic end that justified the tragic means during the struggles of the 20th century. Let me change that. Not a tragic end, a tragic return, a tragic reconciliation, and a tragic reconstruction of the infinite evil. Or maybe it’s not evil, but I’m damn sure it is a tragedy disguised as a comedy for the conscious mind. “Let us go back to the Greeks!”. “Pick up the classics once again for God’s sake!”. Crying out loud with open lungs they demand more than the dream after it spread in a smooth, scattered way just like the struggles did in 1989. And in 1973. And in 1968. Return. Reconciliation. Reconstruction. Return, return, and return. Yet, you still dream given the probabilities for this hypothesis to occur. And while you dream, I live. I too, at nights, think about Ulysses’ journey though.
A logician and a mathematician are also among the guests to our parties. Although, they gave up their respective careers a long time ago. As I was walking by the gardens of Chapultepec’s forest I found them playing a match of chess. They play chess as a pure mechanism to keep their minds lucid and active. It is worth noting that they don’t care about the king’s fate anymore. They have a problem with sovereignty. As I was passing by, I absentmindedly looked at their cemetery of pieces to find by surprise two kings resting on the corpse of a horse. I thought of this as a very poetic stance, and I decided to approach them without disturbing the notoriously bizarre match. The match had the purpose of saving the queen. The logician told me that the queen didn’t resist abrupt changes as aggressively as the kings do. The flow of the game encourages the queen’s movements and transformations, while the king causes sacrifices for the sake of stagnation. The mathematician told me that given enough freedom, a queen can encompass the whole board. We don’t need to get rid of all the pieces (except the kings), he explained. They only have to open the way and allow the queen’s free movement. This was not some misogynistic crap; they tried to explain why the queen is the only piece worth keeping on the board. One of them is a fan of Aristotle, while the other is a fan of Kant. They both hate Plato, but I’ll let you choose who is who. Keep the queen in your chessboard though.
I’m glad, if everything goes well, that you are to become an engineer. Good name to disguise your art. Mexican artists, especially writers like me, have to yell across the Atlantic to receive their so wanted status and recognition. All of this humiliation is in vain. You are right above us, on the other side of the border, and I bet you don’t even know crap about this beautiful nook full of empty promises. Do you know who governs here? The right? The left? What does that even mean here? Have you ever read Carlos Monsiváis? Have you ever watched Luis Buñuel’s movies? Did you know the Aztecs invented pozole and the original recipe contained human flesh? I don’t mean any disrespect. I’m not saying this because you are supposed to know your culture. I’m trying to make a point about the idiosyncrasy of Mexican writers. You are supposed to know you culture though.
As for me, I have a resilient spirit which has grown fond of anonymity. Now I’m focused on this weightless movement, but when I was younger other songs I’d sing. Have you ever wondered how many legal moves are possible on a chess match? There are more possible moves than atoms in the universe I know that. You can do the math. But how many possible arrangements of the pieces are lost after every move? What if after a certain move the queen loses the chance to gain the freedom that the mathematician was referring to? The sort of freedom given up by my generation. Political leaders armed themselves with young lads that were looking for the first cause worth wasting their energy, both physically and mentally. They took their youth away with the lie that the queen needed them to open the way. Millions of juvenile fighters led into the abyss by leaders who were as repressive and stagnant as the kings holding power on the opposite end. The sad part is that their queen had already lost the chance of encompassing the board many moves ago. Don’t fall for these false prophets. Don’t sacrifice your principles to defend them as I defended those who took away my ability to dream. This is why I depend on you now to create my surreality. Your fight has a different context though.
I tell you to keep on dreaming, so I can keep on living. Morpheus needs of people like you because the disillusionment in this universal surreality is producing more and more nightmares by the minute. Keep on dreaming given any outcome because if you stop dreaming one day the monsters in my nightmares will catch up to me and destroy me. Always remember how everything is so ephemerous because now I seem to forget it as soon as I write it. Remember how the queen is the only one worth keeping on the board, and if you do it the king will just be one flexible pawn. However, if I die and my body surprisingly rises from the death, something similar to me will keep on writing something similar to fundamentally sterile prose. If I die, something similar might happen to you eventually so pay attention. Perhaps even in hell I will be more comfortable advising infinite Dantes wandering in their little dark comedies. Yes! Even in hell emotions can’t cease. I will not have God, whose existence would be confirmed only by this damn lounge I’d find myself in, but I will have a river. I will not have paper, but I will have eternity. I will not have memory, but I will have delirium. A queen might wink from divine eternity, I will wake up once again, and another Dreamer will receive this letter.
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Un ejemplo Americano sobre como tratar a los demás.
Americans love Mexican food. We consume nachos, tacos, burritos, tortas, enchiladas, tamales and anything resembling Mexican in enormous quantities. We love Mexican beverages, happily knocking back huge amounts of tequila, mezcal and Mexican beer every year. We love Mexican people—as we sure…
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Búsqueda
Voy a tu búsqueda como el detective calculador que ata hilos desde las sombras y descubre patrones o ciclos para de ahí penetrar en la visible (y nunca suficiente) verdad de su caso. Llevo un tiempo desgarrador ocupando un mismo espacio y trasladándome a no sé dónde solo con mis ilusiones, mi nostalgia y mi sistema de valores. ¿Y a que le doy valor? ¿Qué cosa tiene el suficiente capital simbólico como para aferrarse a la vida, añadirse a mi sistema de valores, reproducirse con variantes y moverse con tentáculos en mis pensamientos y en aquellos pertenecientes a mis confidentes? No digo que tenga un nivel de influencia envidiable para inculcar o hasta instruir sobre símbolos que en mi mente se han esforzado por sobrevivir, pero si tengo amigos que me escuchan y algo se han de llevar. Y ellos mismos usan esa herramienta que cuantifica cualquier cosa que pueda ser valorada. Un amigo cristiano me escucha divagar sobre la teoría de la evolución sabiendo que nunca seremos capaces de expresarnos como quisiéramos (al menos en este tema) y que ni yo ni él vamos a valorar lo dicho con el sistema de valores del otro. A lo mucho aspiramos a digerirlo con cierta objetividad y añadirlo a nuestra red. Eso pasa y tiene sus consecuencias, conforme vamos expandiendo nuestro sistema de valores y aprendiendo más sobre nuestras posesiones y de cómo se relacionan en nuestra ontología, en nuestro mundo hecho de imágenes y palabras, les vamos quitando una etiqueta caducada y les vamos poniendo una de mayor o menor valor adquirido. Esa etiqueta termina siendo solo una ilusión y al final aprender se convierte en la capacidad de quitar y/o cambiar etiquetas para que algo sobreviva. Yo al menos aspiro a darle a mi amigo una etiqueta extra.
A veces llegamos a apostar posesiones para obtener cosas de categorías distintas (hasta las categorías de valor inicialmente se valorizan, lo cuál es muy conveniente ya que cada quien intercambia y apuesta dependiendo de esa valorización inicial). Y como debe de ser ya obvio, lo material es solo una categoría más en nuestra red autónoma de valores y no siempre es lo que se acaba apostando. La apuesta puede ser renunciar a lo material por el nunca seguro ni atrapable amor; o al revés. Por otro lado la apuesta puede ser el abandono de la razón (algo, limitado, que fue de gran valor para los griegos idealistas) por la experiencia de vivir expresándose auténticamente y con la posibilidad, muy alta, de abrirse demasiado y acabar siendo abusado (algo de gran valor en los poetas); o al revés. Al final la reciprocidad entre poetas e idealistas (¿No son lo mismo? No) puede dar como resultado algún símbolo que perdure en nuestra memoria y que sirva de algo. Yo apuesto por tu búsqueda. No apuesto por encontrarte porque pecaría de idealista. Pero tampoco abandono la apuesta y manejo hacia el delirio, ni que fuera poeta. Apuesto, como revuelta, por tan siquiera acercarme y sentir esa flama que florece crueldad y piedad para después regresar a la Tierra a probar mieles que te rosen a través de mis sentidos. Talvez nunca hemos logrado crear algo que te roce, mucho menos que te acaricie, pero la búsqueda que han embarcado muchos no tiene el fin de transformarte ni moldearte conforme a nuestros caprichos. Porque, en primer lugar, ¿en qué te transformaríamos? Yo solo busco explorarte y divagar por donde sea que vayas dejando huellas y cabos sueltos. Y lo que apuesto es todo lo que tengo. Todo mi tiempo, todos mis momentos de reflexión, todo mi capital lo invierto en algo que nunca va a ser seguro. Y aún así lo hago porque eres lo único que me da consuelo. Voy a por ti como han ido muchos otros detectives. Y por eso estudio y analizo la forma en que se acercaron a tu caso. Los disuadiste y hasta llegaste a desviarlos de tu rastro, pero tu suspiro se puede escuchar en lo que dejaron vivo (o pudriéndose, ya el tiempo lo dirá). Y ese suspiro que me causa alivio, eso sutil, es mi labor reproducirlo y amplificarlo en estos tiempos de tanto cinismo y resignación.
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