May those who lack the courage to remain silent transcend in their own way.
May we find the way to share what is necessary.
May my best poems be lost among lost pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to discover new paths.
I want to find new mysteries.
May nothing be revealed
in anything.
May every movement of yours be yours.
Let\u2019s discover notes, silences.
Let\u2019s break all forms, all matter, all materials. The drawings from our elementary school years.
Let\u2019s begin with the ABC of Opening our Emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SHOW YOURSELF, damn it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just like that, without fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Imagine a tazo, the kind that came in Doritos bags.
That illusion, the short span of recess.
But you found what you had always wanted.
The golden tazo.
You knew happiness at eleven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everything else has been learning to settle.
And you\u2019ve done it very well.
Look at you now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When you say you are happy
with the calm of turning off the TV before
sleeping and knowing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
that no tornado (like me)
will invade your ground.
Your income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comfort for many,
remedy for so many
fools who believe in you
because they don\u2019t know you deceive them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You lie while showing that our minds and miseries die mysteriously while no one shows
ning\u00fan tipo de inter\u00e9s m\u00e1s por menester que por motriz agravio no conceden moribunda muestra de morosa muerte, y misericordiosa mentira.
Monstrous morning that at dawn grants us the miracle of mystery.
Be each one of the crickets that won\u2019t let me sleep.
Wake me.
Alternately, someday I will wake you
only
so
you can hate me
justly.
Because I know you will hate me
because you love me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s a guarantee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We will move statues.
Mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We will colonize
decolonization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All of academia, with its slow dawns, will be the playgrounds of the children we will never have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We will weave together
not a past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nor a huipil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nor a tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We will weave presents as green as this one.
As aquatic.
Because it only takes stepping slightly away from the surface,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to smell
open spaces<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yes,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
it\u2019s true that all your insinuations are enough for me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have never asked for more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leaves rise and sound slowly without asking permission, but your intentions\u2014yes.
Learn not to ask permission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every rhythm has to
break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or it isn\u2019t rhythm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you believe in something, it\u2019s because it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s not about discovering<\/p>\n\n\n\n
paper airplanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or little handprints.
Small on the glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(We already said the children we love belong to others. The future is not ours.)
It\u2019s about knowing that a broken toy is better than no toy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What do you feel when no one invites you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All dance is mathematics in its purest state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dance is poetry.
Dance is prosaic homage.
Dance is elegy.
And elegies dance without the drums that are the only beloved dance.
But you don\u2019t want to listen to us, and that\u2019s why you don\u2019t do it\u2014because you\u2019ve always done it.
Because you don\u2019t need to hear the GPS voice telling you to turn left.
Because your whole body is to the left.
But your fears invade you on the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And today, only today, there is a bubbling of deep and silent water.
Today there are painted stones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Absolute rule of what is established.
No means no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even if you want to replicate that
which keeps you alert
in the nights
without meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No means no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because clarity<\/p>\n\n\n\n
opens space<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to poetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Every forest that burns
is just another forest.
And every silenced song
is a minimal silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No one knows what they don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But fear is afraid of itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the beach shines, shines,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
slow,
soft,
without your company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n