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NINETY-SIX,
SEPTEMBER 1, 2003
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"M'sica
maestro!
Vicente Huidobro
"AH,
por Dios! Un golpe de batuta que ponga
t?rmino a
la frase musical
de la desesperaci?n, al
matin?e de
la soledad, a la orquesta de la
rabia en el desvencijado
domingo de
toda la vida.
Sobre
la tumba no dejan de pasar los ej?rcitos... "Claro!
Los gobiernos pasan pero la polic?a queda - Me parece
haber o?do decir en alguna parte.
Pero
"al que rueda de una pared a otra de su cuarto
qu?
remedio le queda? Las alas zumbonas de
la soledad no se
apartan de su o?do as? se vuelva a uno y otro lado. El
tiempo tiene su propio peso
insoportable, el coraz?n late
como un perro.
Por
"ltimo, queda el recurso de los actos heroicos " el
hero'smo es desesperado - salir a la calle y disparar el
rev?lver sobre la multitud dar?a que hablar a los
incontables moralistas de la bolsa o la vida.
Quedan
el derecho a contradecirse y el derecho a
marcharse.
O
bailar con un hacha en el parlamento (homenaje a los
pol'ticos: esos monos del hombre).
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Music maestro? (Vicente Huidobro)
Oh,
for God's sake! The strike of a baton that would put an
end to the musical measures of despair, the matinee of
solitude, the orchestra of rage on the ramshackle Sunday
of a lifetime. "
The armies
continue to
traverse the graves .
. . Of
course! governments fall
but the police
endure " I seem
to have heard somewhere.
But
what's the alternative for he who bounces off the walls
of his room? The buzzing wings of solitude won't retreat
from his ears no matter how much he turns his head from
one side to another. Time carries its own unbearable
weight, the heart yelps like a dog.
Heroic acts remain as a last
resort " heroism is desperate "
going out in the street and firing a revolver into the crowd
would give the countless moralists demanding your money
or your life something to talk about.
Left with the right to
contradict oneself and the
right to get
out.
Or to dance with a hatchet in
the parliament (homage to the
politicians: those apes of men).
Translated: Cindy Schuster ##
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