"Años más tarde, cuando trataba de recordar cómo era en la realidad la doncella idealizada por la alquimia de la poesía, no lograba distinguirla de los atardeceres desgarrados de aquellos tiempos. Aún cuando la atisbaba sin ser visto, por aquellos días de ansiedad en que esperaba la respuesta a su primer carta, la veía transfigurada en la reverberveración de las dos de la tarde, bajo la llovizna de azhares de los almendros, donde siempre era abril en cualquier tiempo del año..."
"Ausencia Santander lo volteó al derecho y al revés con su sabiduría de perro viejo, lo paró de cabeza, lo subió y lo bajó, lo volvió a parir como nuevo, le hizo trizas sus virtuosismos teóricos, y le enseñó lo único que tenía que aprender para el amor: que a la vida no la enseña nadie..."
"Con ella aprendió Florentino Ariza lo que ya había padecido muchas veces sin saberlo, que se puede estar enamorado de varias personas a la vez, y de todas con el mismo dolor, sin traicionar a ninguna. Solitario en el muelle, se había dicho con un golpe de rabia: El corazón tiene más cuartos que un hotel de putas..."
(García Marquez)
3.1.09
Se siente raro e inconcluso el volver a empezar. Sabe que todo esto es sólo un estado más, controlado por la mente... Pero la suya es particularmente incontrolable, así como la mismísima gravedad o la lejana señora Luna. Demasiado confuso para su inexperto entendimiento, ya no aguanta, y prefiere abandonarse en la abstinencia. Desear es ahora una circunstancia de la carne, siempre débil. Y el amor, un efímero instinto de supervivencia.
29.12.08
Maybe Someday
Maybe someday you'll be satisfied
When you've lost everything you'll have nothing left to hide.
Maybe someday you'll find out everybody's somebody's fool,
Maybe then you'll realize what it would have taken to keep me cool.
Maybe someday when you're by yourself alone
You'll know the love that I had for you was never my own.
Through hostile cities and unfriendly towns,
Thirty pieces of silver, no money down.
Maybe someday, you will understand
That something for nothing is everybody's plan.
Maybe someday you'll remember what you felt
When there was blood on the moon in the cotton belt.
I guess I was too off the handle, not sentimental enough.
Maybe someday, you'll believe me when I say
That I wanted you, baby, in every kind of way.
Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do
For not breakin' down no bedroom door to get at you.
Always was a sucker for the right cross.
Never wanted to go home 'til the last cent was lost.
Maybe someday you will look back and see
That I made it so easy for you to follow me.
Maybe someday there'll be nothing to tell.
I'm just as happy as you, baby, I just can't say it so well.
Never slumbered or slept or waited for lightning to strike.
There's no excuse for you to say that we don't think alike.
You said you were going' to Frisco, stay a couple of months.
I always liked San Francisco, I was there for a party once.
Maybe someday you'll see that it's true
There was no greater love than what I had for you.
BOB DYLAN
When you've lost everything you'll have nothing left to hide.
Maybe someday you'll find out everybody's somebody's fool,
Maybe then you'll realize what it would have taken to keep me cool.
Maybe someday when you're by yourself alone
You'll know the love that I had for you was never my own.
Through hostile cities and unfriendly towns,
Thirty pieces of silver, no money down.
Maybe someday, you will understand
That something for nothing is everybody's plan.
Maybe someday you'll remember what you felt
When there was blood on the moon in the cotton belt.
I guess I was too off the handle, not sentimental enough.
Maybe someday, you'll believe me when I say
That I wanted you, baby, in every kind of way.
Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do
For not breakin' down no bedroom door to get at you.
Always was a sucker for the right cross.
Never wanted to go home 'til the last cent was lost.
Maybe someday you will look back and see
That I made it so easy for you to follow me.
Maybe someday there'll be nothing to tell.
I'm just as happy as you, baby, I just can't say it so well.
Never slumbered or slept or waited for lightning to strike.
There's no excuse for you to say that we don't think alike.
You said you were going' to Frisco, stay a couple of months.
I always liked San Francisco, I was there for a party once.
Maybe someday you'll see that it's true
There was no greater love than what I had for you.
BOB DYLAN
26.12.08
A Good Year
Max- I would like a lifetime spent with a suspicious irrational godness. Some short-tempered jealousy on the side. I'd also like a bottle of wine that tastes like you... and a glass that's never empty- He kisses her- Forgive my lips... they find joy in the most unusual places.
Fanny- You remembered what I whispered to you... when we were kids in the poool?
Max- It appears that you do too.
Fanny- You remembered what I whispered to you... when we were kids in the poool?
Max- It appears that you do too.
He walks along the embankment, he appears tiny against the vast expanse of river...
"I don't depend on nobody, nobody depends on me... (pause) My life's my own."
And the song beggins...
What is all about Alfie?
It is just for the moment we live?
What's all about, when you sort it out, Alfie?
Are we ment to take more than who give?
Or are we ment to love, Alfie?...
"I don't depend on nobody, nobody depends on me... (pause) My life's my own."
And the song beggins...
What is all about Alfie?
It is just for the moment we live?
What's all about, when you sort it out, Alfie?
Are we ment to take more than who give?
Or are we ment to love, Alfie?...
22.12.08
Luz
Un rayo de sol atardecer se deslizó despacio desde detrás de una nube para acariciarla. Se estremeció al contacto del calor para no ser descortés, aunque en realidad sólo sentía escalofríos. Hecha un ovillo a los pies del roble, cerró los ojos para no opacar la inmensidad del paisaje con dolores ajenos a ese instante. La dureza del asfalto estaba lejos ahora, kilómetros luz de distancia, y ella comprendía que de nada servía ocultar sus sentimientos en el verde campo. Respiró profundamente, como succionando toda la basura que tenía en su interior, y la expulsó sonoramente. No era tan fácil desintoxicar un alma para poder responderle al calor del sol. La naturaleza la envolvía pacientemente, remendando su corazón destrozado por la ausencia. Al fin se sentía regresando en sí misma. Todavía con los ojos cerrados, observó las escenas de sus recuerdos en las que aparecía él, y fue infeliz por última vez, procurrando borrarlas para siempre de los archivos de su mente. El viento también parecía unirse a la tarea, susurrándole sonidos de aliento con voz de grillo. No había motivos para seguir lastimándose en su nombre cuando todo alrededor era paz y vida. Se tragó una lágrima al sonreir. Su propio yo estaba de vuelta, animado y listo para disfrutar el atardecer. Abrió los ojos, una sopa de estrellas se cocinaba en el horizonte, cuando una fugaz bajó a revolverla y en su destello se leyó el deseo concedido de poder olvidarlo.
12.12.08
11.12.08
9.12.08
I dig my toes into the sand
The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds
Strewn across a blue blanket
I lean against the wind
Pretend that I am weightless
And in this moment I am happy...
But I wish you were here...
I lay my head onto the sand
The sky resembles a backlit canopy
With holes punched in it
I'm counting UFOs
I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy...
How I wish you were here...
The world's a roller coaster
And I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care
But my hands are busy in the air saying:
I wish you were here...
.
The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds
Strewn across a blue blanket
I lean against the wind
Pretend that I am weightless
And in this moment I am happy...
But I wish you were here...
I lay my head onto the sand
The sky resembles a backlit canopy
With holes punched in it
I'm counting UFOs
I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy...
How I wish you were here...
The world's a roller coaster
And I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care
But my hands are busy in the air saying:
I wish you were here...
.
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