Tuesday, May 15, 2007
SOLPORES (II)
As veces coincidia co pai antes de sair da casa cara o Ateneo e iste lle preguntaba:
- Raquelita, ayudastes a hacer la compra hoy?
- Si papa, lo notastes?
- Lo note, nena, lo note. Lo notamos todos.
E baixaba os escalons fumando unha Faria convencido, debaixo do fondo do caixon do ultimo moble do seu subconscente, de que a Raquelita non era su filla. E non erraba neses subliminais devagares. Xeneticamente falando, a Raquelita fora o producto dunha fin de semana na que a nai, daquela ainda unha recen casada a meio consumar, farta de finxir que a infertilidade do seu matrimonio era culpa sua e famenta de enxendro, decidiu presentarse na Corunha na casa dunha madama de putas caras. Era o ultimo dia da Semana Santa do 1900, e moitos dos clientes levaban dias acumulando ganas de vacia-los baixos. A nai da Raquelita petou nunha casa rica detras da praza de Maria Pita. Abriu a madama, que saiu pola porta de servicio ao outro lado do corredor:
- Que se lle ofrece a senhora?
- Quero facer un trato con vostede.
- E logo?
- Quero pasa-la fin de semana con tantos homes coma me poda mandar. Este e o enderezo, no hotel Real.
- Carinho, ben desesperadinha estas –riu a vella. Eu nin sequera te conhezo.
- Importalle que pase? Son so cinco minutos.
A nai da Raquelita entrou nunha cocinha impoluta, onde nada se cocinhara en anos. Ao fondo abrianse as portas verdes do balcon i entraba un vento de lonxa perfumado de mexilons e acedias.
Monday, April 30, 2007
SOLPORES (I)
A Raquelita medrou nun barrio ben de Ourense, cando uns poucos ainda a chamaban a Atenas de Galicia, mais pola tendencia dos seus mozos a buscarse as partes duras baixo a Ponte romana que polo amor das suas xentes pola filosofia e as letras. Digo “medrou,” certamente, mais e unha probe eleccion de verba, porque a Raquelita medrar, o que se di medrar, non medrou mais ca dous ous tres pes cara arriba e para de contar. Deixou, eso si, unha melena longa esbararlle polo delgado corpo embaixo, un corpo case esquelete sen mais cor ca unha purpura sobor das palpebras e un par de xeraneos esbaidos nas meixelas. Co pelo rizo e fino e a brancura pantasma do seu corpinho miudo, a Raquelita parecia, espida, unha chiribia pasada.
Non era fea de cara a Raquelita, sen embargo. Tinha uns ollos azul verdoso ponteados de brillos claros e escuros, que cambiaban de lugar con cada palpebrar coma as areas a beira do mar da Toxa. E os beizos eran ben cheos, en forma de sagrado corazon de Xesus. Sentada nos cafes do Paseo cos seus tules e as suas organzas, a nena espertaba a curiosidade deses homes que gostan das mulleres accesorias (a muller chaveiro, a muller reloxio suizo, a muller xemelgo) e mais dun se tinha sentado sen permiso en fronte dela para pedirlle se poderia acompanhala a sua casa do ganchete.
Ela sempre declinaba as invitacions e seguia a sorbe-lo chocolate da Ibense, a mirada perdida nas palmeiras do Parque de San Lazaro. Aquelas tardes primaveirales remataban sempre cunha Raquelita aterida caminhando soa cara a sua casa, mentres as pombas grises se retiraban a dormir nos platanos da Alameda.
Monday, April 2, 2007
SENTADO EN UN ARBOL
Espero a la muerte
No hay nada que hacer
Tan solo mecerse
Sentado en sus ramas
El tiempo se adhiere
Mi cuerpo robot
Rezuma su aceite
Sentado en mi arbol
Ayer era viernes
Me cuerpo cadaver
Quiso estremecerse
Decia hace tiempo:
"La vida es Hermosa,"
"El amor es un juego,"
"Los dias son olas."
Pero era tan solo
Un burro, un imberbe
Hablando a las nubes,
estupidamente
Te vienes conmigo
O te quedas luchando?
A que andas perdida?
Subete a mi arbol.
de purpura y mierda.
Me mueres.
Te mato.
Morimos?
Muramos!
Pupilas, silencio,
Y un fundido en blanco
Sunday, April 1, 2007
COSTURAS
Sunday, March 18, 2007
ULTIMOS SEGUNDOS
Sus ojos se cerraron y un ejercito de anemonas desfilo por sus retinas. Luego fueron los fuegos artificiales de una noche de verano los que iluminaron el interior de sus senos frontales, reverberaron bajo sus parpados hinchados y huyeron en sombras de color navegando bajo sus mejillas. Oscuridad total, y luego un punto de luz que crecio hasta convertirse en una avalancha que se difumino en ochos, no, en cintas de Moebius conectadas la una a la otra. Se borraron agitadamente,
Saturday, February 24, 2007
AIRBAGS
AMNESIA
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
34 BAJO CERO
Y, como les digo, no olviden visitarme en invierno para deslizarse por la piel de esta pantera blanca llamada Chicago.
Veran que gusto.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT
if the clock stops at midnight
and your moans wake up the birds
sleep on the branches
of my nude trees.
Not your fault
that I lock up my poor body into your arms,
so deep,
and breathe the hidden essence
of your chest, . .
your belly button .
and your outskirts.
It's not your fault,
nor it is mine,
nor it is anybody's
that there's no one here to stop these avalanches.
"How short is life!"
we'll think in our last bed.
That moment will arrive
so fast.
But I won't think of you:
you'll be the ashes of the shadow of a feeling.
Yet today, having chosen to leave you and your intersections
to save my machine-gunned heart --scavenger--
I only think of your infinite legs,
of your abysmal eyes,
mahogany wood burning on your back,
melting on me,
as we play chess in an ocean of green sheets.
And it's not your fault.
TRON
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
SOBRE "EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO"
(c) RRC, Ink. 2007
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
MR. VISHNU EN CHICAGO (Fragmento)
(c) 2007 RRC, Ink.
WHY I LIKED "CHILDREN OF MEN"
In a nutshell: generalized war has made the world go to hell and only the U.K. resists as an enclosed society (irony, anyone?), isolated from these horrors. Life in the island is no picnic, either. For some undisclosed reason, women can’t have children. Terrorism is rampant. Refugees from all nations are rounded and sent to lawless concentration camps. Ray of hope: as the train goes by our main character sees written on a wall: “The last one to die, please turn off the light” Thank God, the human race has not lost the sense of humor. In the middle of this chaos, a refugee woman is pregnant, something the world has not seen in 18 years. What to do? There is a lot of running, an overtly graphic birth and a ruthless bombing. And then there is the ending scene. That’s, pretty much, it.
There is a slight déjà vu all over the movie. In one of its most terrifying moments (and there are quite a few) the director takes us inside one of the concentration camps where we see handcuffed, caged refugees blinded with hoods and displayed in the same positions as the tortured Abu Ghraib prisoners we saw in the press. But terror inflicted by those who should be protecting us is not the only reference to the monsters du jour of western societies: the fear of immigration and the prospects of a society collapsing under the weight of its elderly are present too. That should be plenty to scare the pants out of the viewer. Alas, the director adds visual terror to the psychological one, and along with our pants go our underpants.
Not to spoil the movie to anyone, but only a few characters survive. The one representing good vibe, peace to the world and all that jazz (an old hippy played by Michael Caine who lives surrounded by marihuana plants in a beautiful, hidden house in London’s outskirts) is cruelly shot. The terrorists (the homini lupii in this story) are blown to pieces. Only the state seems to persist, in a torture-based, militarized version of it. But there’s hope for the survival of men (yes, other than puns and irony), in the form of that only baby. Yet, in light of the physical and political state of planet Earth, maybe we should all take our suicide pill already (there is one available, Quietus brand, with a darkly humorous slogan: “You decide when” ) . Actually, the hopeless future depicted in the movie leaves us thinking at the end: what was the point of all this, really? And more importantly: who cares?
Overall, this is a movie who will make you live the rest of your day (or your week) as if there were no tomorrow. For that, and for the couple of glimpses of London in its deathbed (such tired splendor), I liked this film.
© RRC, Ink. 2007
Monday, January 15, 2007
ARRIBA EL TELON
America the Beautiful
se desperto sin bragas
del lado equivicado de la cama.
Tomo su codeina,
maldijo las persianas
y vio el dinero brillando en la mesilla.
America the beautiful
lloro y penso despacio
en esta cuenta atras tan miserable.
Ni siquiera se acordo de su cliente.
Solo quiere besarme en la mejilla
y abrazarme, dulce spooning, lentamente.
Yo ame
a America the Beautiful
tan hondo, que quemaron mis entrañas
sus suspiros y vomite incansablemente
por semanas pintadas de amarillo.
Yo lo ame
y ella lavo mis pies aquella noche
y desaparecio por la manana.
Lo he visto removiendo la basura
del Sheraton, y he torcido la mirada.
America the beautiful
del lado equivocado de la cama.
Abraza sus almohadas,
relee sus agendas
en busca de clientes.
Queria aparecer en las revistas
--me lo dijo entre orgasmos y susurros--
y yo le dibuje constelaciones
y llene su cama de petalos y esperma.
Oh, America the beautiful,
your eyes a million lights,
queen of Manhattan!
El tiempo que le quede
lo pasare amandola,
callado.
Y el cielo se enrojece, lentamente.
© 2007 RRC, Ink.