Friday, December 20, 2019

No me pongas la cancion que me gusta (o la sensacion de constante aclaramiento)

 Digamos que eres un muchacho, que una noche azul de neblina sales a la ciudad. para encontrar diariamente lo inencontrable. Digamos que los vidrios burilados y el aserrín de los bares te llaman a la quietud. Y vas solo, infinitamente solo. Pero llevas contigo una flor que es extraña. La flor de lo que jamás fue tuyo: muchas veces el Amor es lejano. 

 Luis Hernandez



      Debí haberme dado cuenta con lo del ratoncillo . Rascaba todas las noches el laton del horno, detrás de la cocina, probablemente porque ahi estaba mas calentito. Estaba anidando. Compraste una de esas trampas Tomahawk que sirven para que el animalito caiga indemne. Lo atrapaste y lo llevaste al otro lado del rio. Por supuesto, a los dos o tres dias tenias otro ratoncillo en la cocina (o tal vez el mismo). Luego te encontré dandole el biberon a unos gatitos que los vecinos se habian encontrado. Cada gesto era tan inútil y a la vez tan diligente. Insondable al pragmatismo. Resoluto e ingenuo. Pequeños actos de fé que estas noches de lluvia copiosa me hacen el camino de vuelta a casa màs duro.




       Llueve otra vez . Como casi todas las noches que hablamos. Vuelvo esta noche a casa empapado, magullado y vulversé. No  hay ningun mensaje  solicitando informacion sobre si llegue bien, o si voy a recordar lo acordado- La noche es azul de neblina o de tormenta . Soy disciplinado y el mañana no existe y nuestros mundos corren paralelos pero no se van a volver a entrecruzar mas que para lo estrictamente necesario. No tengo tiempo mas que para las cosas buenas, porque vivo en un tiempo prestado, y tengo dos o tres misiones mas en la vida que estaria muy bien completar -vamos... Pero no puedo dejar de atravesar una sola noche de  lluvia sin querer ser ese raton aunque sea una vez más. Y eso es y será la lluvia para mi ahora, de ahora en adelante. Hasta el ultimo dia.



Wednesday, August 7, 2019

at Syd´s

           
 there is a crack in everything/
   that´s how the light gets in/

                                 L. Cohen

     Can´t really tell one from another. Can´t exactly guess when did he leave the band. Can´t even say I particularly like him among the others. I just showed up at his home this morning. His voice was kind and mellow. He was basically muttering about some records he wanted to show me and could not find. Room and floor where made out of wood. Old TV. High ceiling. A heavy turntable covered in some kind of powder- I could hear some mockingbirds out there. Could have been a shed or we just were in a cabin in the middle of a forest. There was another man in the room, almost like a projection. A man in his sixties, bald, sweeping in circles on a perfectly clean floor, mumbling something about some furry animals and a pict. Then Syd showed up with the record.



Saturday, April 20, 2019

Tiger and Spider


            Then Spider approached the den and found a nonchalant Mister Tiger licking his paws

- Cheers, Tiger mon ami, what are you up to these days? I thought you might be busy with your killings.

Mister Tiger smirked

-  I do not need to hunt each and every day, Anansi. Now I recall you don´t mention that in any of your songs.You call me friend although you don´t praise my virtues, for nature shaped me as a hunter and a killer, just like you -or most of your versions- but not as evil.

Anansi rubbed three of his legs against each other, as stroked by a sudden itch.

- I just sang about your preference for cubs and defenseless animals.

- And yet I would not stalk you. Although I have deep respect for your poisonous nature, you could not hurt me, defenseless Spidey. But word to the wise, listen to this.

Mister Spider does n´t have eardrums, but sensitive hairs covering  his eight legs. Thus, all of them became pointy and ready to listen to what Mister Tiger wanted to say:

- I long for sweet meat, which means  I hunt for those who do not see me coming. Fear is not my friend, since the taste of fear is not proper for a good digestion, at least in my case. Otherwise I would not need any camouflage. Be fair, Spider, and think about your own way to hunt and kill, with your many eyes and your  hairy legs. Who is then, the lord of the new tales, but the fear and the terror, shaped as an arachnid? I just unveiled your ultimate scam: negative advertising. Now go, write a hit -one which tells the truth, for once-  and let me take my nap.

And off went Spider to live among us.