Tuesday, November 14, 2006


I can hardly wait
I can hardly wait
I can hardly wait
I can hardly wait

It's been so long
I've lost my taste
Say angel come
Say lick my face
Let fall your dress
I'll play the part
I'll open this mouth wide
Eat your heart

I can hardly wait
I can hardly wait
I can hardly wait
I can hardly wait

Lips cracked dry
Tongue blue burst
Say angel come
Say lick my thirst
It's been so long
I've lost my taste
Here RomeoM
ake my water's break

In my glass coffin
I'm waiting
In my glass coffin
I'm waiting

P.J.Harvey, I Can Hardly Wait

Saturday, November 11, 2006


"-¿No?
--No. No es tu culpa.
--No es tu culpa, eso es lo único que escucho, no es tu culpa, es una enfermedad, no es tu culpa. Ya sé que no es mi culpa. Me lo decís tanto que estoy empezando a pensar que sí es mi culpa.
--No es tu culpa.
--YA LO SE.
--Pero lo permitís.
(Silencio)
--¿O no?
--No hay droga sobre la tierra que pueda darle sentido a la vida.
--Vos sos la que permite este estado de desesperación absurda.
(Silencio)
--Sos vos quien lo permite.
(Silencio)
--No voy a ser capaz de pensar. No voy a ser capaz de trabajar.
--Nada va a interferir tanto con tu trabajo como el suicidio.
(Silencio)
--Soñé que iba al doctor y me daba ocho minutos de vida. Y había estado sentada en la puta sala de espera como media hora.
(Un largo silencio)
--Está bien, hagámoslo, hagámoslo con las drogas, hagamos la lobotomía química, bajémosle la cortina a las funciones más elevadas de mi cerebro y a lo mejor voy a ser un poquito más capaz de vivir. Hagámoslo"

Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psicosis
Pic by Esther G.

Friday, November 10, 2006






No necesito nada más que esta lapicera
prestada por el mozo
ni otro sobre de azúcar para el café
bramando en la resaca
tampoco el pago de una cerveza octava.

Guardo intacto
el coraje de hacer un paga Dios
como en los setenta
por las farmacias de turno
cuando la poesía anfetamínica
se compraba sin receta.

Viajo solo en medio de la huelga
entre panzas vacías
con razón vociferantes
y ningún encontronazo
junto al musculoso estibador
mientras dura la espera
en la protesta augusta
que hasta cortó la calle
con su semáforo
chorreando lágrimas de sangre.

Masacre sin piedad
para los mustios habitantes
de bairestremens.com.
Mientras leo en cerebros
de los otros viajeros.
Ese, de anteojos negros,
va a llegar tardísimo a su cita
con el andrólogo.
El que viaja a su lado
sólo piensa en robar
la corona de oro de la Virgen del Once
pero también
el busto de bronce de algún prócer
para revenderlo
enseguida
a peso plomo,vapuleo.

Así nace esta queja
sobre mi cuaderno Avon
en pleno verano
cuando el hospital de poetas
parece aniquilado
aunque nunca existiera la cura
de sus males
ni siquiera un cuarto gratis y fresco
donde no morir de pie.

Ahora,
destrabada la marcha
con las vitrinas de El Molino
destrozadas a huevazos
es cuando el maldito patrullero
se sube a la vereda
y como a la estatua de Santa Claus
me alumbran
entre dátiles
aunque igual nada vieron.
Mayor fue el miedo
de volverte invisible.

A distraerse ahora
con tu milonga hacia la autopista
Tacos de punta baratos hundidos en la brea
hirviendo aún más que el cuerpo
del que paga
y al finalizar la faena
regresar leyendo esos versos abyectos que has escrito.

Soy el que cree en la avenida Corrientes
acunadora del tango y de Tanguito
que se incendia en el río
justo cerca de la Casa Rosada
ese postre fucsia envenenado
en los cachetes.

Confundo palomas con empleados
de oficina
usan la misma gris corbata
que les impide el vuelo.
Soy quien cantara a Safo
además de encerar los dedos
de la hidra de Lesbos
con ungüentos de acero
pero ahora
ni consigo colarmee
n los recitales de Gal, Chavela
o La Felipe.

Igual
como siempre
el buen clima regresa
tras la huelga a lo lejos
cada vez más ajena.
A causa de ella
me pasé de parada
pero sigo escribiendo.

preferible el asco bien narrado
a la culpa de sobrevivir triunfales.
Sin tener cómo,dónde,cuándo
a quién decirlo.

Fernando Noy, Peso Plomo

Tuesday, November 07, 2006



"Sí", pensó. "Entre la pena y la nada, elijo la pena."

William Faulkner, Las palmeras salvajes

Sunday, November 05, 2006


"--Todo está hecho y terminado, Holly, y ahora en el pasado. Debes guardar las imágenes y los olores y los sonidos en el estante de más atrás del cerebro.
--¿Cómo puedo hacer eso?
Le doy la explicación de cómo pensar en el cerebro como algo que vive dentro de una gran habitación con muchos armarios y estantes y cajas. Y el trabajo consiste en seleccionar una caja, o un estante, de un rincón alejado, para mantener en él todos los recuerdos desagradables. Luego le cuelgas una etiqueta, la de las cosas pasadas, y sólo lo abres cuando quieres. "

Kitty Fitzgerald, Pigtopia
Art bt Laurie Lipton

Friday, November 03, 2006


"Pero cuando se trata de la vida, ¿quién nos ampara? Pues cada uno es cada uno. Y cada vida tiene que ser amparada por esa propia vida de cada uno. Cada uno de nosotros: es con lo que contamos. Como doña María Rita siempre fue una persona común, le parecía que morir no era una cosa normal. Morir era sorprendente. Hablaba y hasta pensaba en la muerte, pero en el fondo era escéptica e incrédula. Pensaba que se moría cuando ocurría un accidente o alguien mataba a alguien. La vieja tenía poca experiencia. A veces tenía taquicardia: bacanal del corazón. Pero sólo eso, y le sucedía desde joven. En su primer beso, por ejemplo, el corazón se desgobernó. Y fue una cosa buena, en el límite con lo malo. Algo que recordaba de su pasado, no como hechos sino como vida: una sensación de vegetación en sombra, hierbas, samambayas, culandrillos, frescor verde. Cuando sentía eso otra vez, sonreía".

Clarice Lispector, La partida del tren

Thursday, November 02, 2006


Vivir Sola

Aunque por odiosa casualidad hallara un pelo sobre mi pan con miel, de todos modos se trataría de mi propio pelo.

Katherine Mansfield, Diario

Wednesday, November 01, 2006


"El insomnio es la única forma de heroísmo compatible con la cama"

E.M. Cioran, Silogismos de la amargura

Tuesday, October 31, 2006


There was a girl who flew the world from a lonely shore
Through southern snow to Heathrow to understand the law
There was a boy who loved the noise of the underground
He left the coast and overdosed on that London sound

He said,"I don't care if you're black or blue,
me and the stars stay up for you
I don't care who's wrong or right
and I don't care for the U.K. tonight so stay, stay"

And then one day she moved away from those garden walls
She left some flowers, he smoked for hours
She understood the law

Suede, Black or Blue

Sunday, October 29, 2006


I, having loved ever since I was a child a few things, never having
wavered
In these affections; never through shyness in the houses of the
rich or in the presence of clergymen having denied these
loves;
Never when worked upon by cynics like chiropractors having
grunted or clicked a vertebra to the discredit of those loves;
Never when anxious to land a job having diminished them by a
conniving smile; or when befuddled by drink
Jeered at them through heartache or lazily fondled the fingers of
their alert enemies; declare

That I shall love you always.
No matter what party is in power;
No matter what temporarily expedient combination of allied
interests wins the war;
Shall love you always.


Edna St. Vincent Millay, Modern Declaration

Saturday, October 28, 2006


"Don't you know it babe
I'm only half a body
Without your embrace"

Shakira, Your Embrace
art by hasama

Friday, October 27, 2006


Oh the werewolf, oh the werewolf
Comes stepping along
He don’t even break the branches where he’s gone
Once I saw him in the moonlight, when the bats were a flying
I saw the werewolf, and the werewolf was crying

Cryin’ nobody knows, nobody knows, body knows
How I loved the man, as I teared off his clothes
Cryin’ nobody know, nobody knows my pain
When I see that it’s risen; that fool moon again

For the werewolf, for the werewolf has sympathy
For the werewolf, somebody like you and me.
And only he goes to me, man this little flute I play
All through the night, until the light of day, and we are doomed to play

For the werewolf, for the werewolf, has sympathy
For the werewolf, somebody like you and me

Cat Power's cover of The Werewolf Song by Michael Hurley

More here: http://www.showstudio.com/project/dontbothertoknock/15218/16454

Monday, October 23, 2006


Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head,
so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name,
like tears, soft, salt, on my lips, the sound of its bright syllables
like a charm, like a spell.

Falling in love
is glamorous hell; the crouched, parched heart
like a tiger ready to kill; a flame's fierce licks under the skin.
Into my life, larger than life, beautiful, you strolled in.
hid in my ordinary days, in the long grass of routine,
in my camouflage rooms. You sprawled in my gaze,
staring back from anyone's face, from the shape of a cloud,
from the pining, earth-struck moon which gapes at me

and I open the bedroom door. The curtains stir. There you are
on the bed, like a gift, like a touchable dream.

Carol Ann Duffy, You

Thursday, October 19, 2006


That crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling She knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.

No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound,
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
Where the bales and the baskets lay
No common intelligible sound
But sang, ‘O sea-starved, hungry sea.’

W.B.Yeats, A Crazed Girl

Wednesday, October 18, 2006


"My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race"

J.G. Ballard, Crash

Monday, October 16, 2006


I scare myself to death
That's why I keep on running
Before I've arrived
I can see myself comming

Sunday, October 15, 2006


"Lucy was frightened, frightened near to death. Her voice choked, she could not breathe, her limbs went numb. This is not happening, she said to herself as the men forced her down; it is just a dream, a nightmare. While the men, for their part, drank up her fear, revelled in it, did all they could to hurt her, to menace her, to heighten her terror. Call your dogs! they said to her. Go on, call your dogs! No dogs? Then let us show you dogs!
You don't understand, you weren't there, says Bev Shaw. Well, she is mistaken. Lucy's intuition is right after all: he does understand; he can, if he concentrates, if he loses himself, be there, be the men, inhabit them, fill them with the ghost of himself. The question is, does he have it in him to be the woman?".

Friday, October 13, 2006


"...Indudablemente había muchos médicos, pensé, que, aun teniendo una mentalidad plenamente científica, no eran otra cosa que hombres de negocios y hablaban y actuaban como tales; mi padre, sin embargo, no era de esos. Para mí, dijo, debía de ser una continua tristeza acompañarlo, y por ello vacilaba casi siempre en llevarme con él a sus visitas, porque siempre resultaba que todo lo que él veia, tocaba o atendía era enfermizo y triste; se tratase de lo que se tratase, se movía en un mundo enfermo, entre gentes y personas enfermas; incluso cuando ese mundo pretendía o simulaba estar sano, estaba en realidad enfermo, y las gentes y las personas, incluso las pretendidamente sanas, estaban enfermas siempre. El estaba acostumbrado, dijo, pero a mi podía transtornarme e inducirme a reflexiones perjudiciales; precisamente yo, en su opinión, tendía siempre a dejarme transtornar por todo y por todos, de una forma que me hacía daño. Y lo mismo le ocurría a mi hermana, de un modo mucho más peligroso aún. No obstante, era un error, creía él, negarse a aceptar la evidencia de que todo era enfermizo y triste --dijo "realmente enfermizo y triste-- y, por esa razón, tarde o temprano "se sentía tentado" a llevarnos a mi o mi hermana en sus visitas. "Siempre hay un riesgo", dijo.

Thomas Bernhard, Transtorno
Art by Helnwein

Thursday, October 12, 2006


"Besides some very vivid memories, including the one of the overwhelming desire I felt the day I helped her move, all Sumire left behind were several long letters... I read the letters so many times I nearly had them memorized. Every time I read them, I felt like Sumire and I were together again. This warmed my heart more than anything else could. Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it's sucked back into darkness behind and vanishes. But if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just barely, for a few moments"

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

Tuesday, October 10, 2006


Wake up Maggie I think I got something to say to you
Its late september and I really should be back at school
I know I keep you amused but I feel Im being used
Oh Maggie I couldnt have tried any more
You lured me away from home just to save you from being alone
You stole my heart and that's what really hurt

The morning sun when it's in your face really shows your age
But that don't worry me none in my eyes you're everything
I laughed at all of your jokes my love you didnt need to coax
Oh, Maggie I couldnt have tried any more
You lured me away from home, just to save you from being alone
You stole my soul and that's a pain I can do without

All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand
But you turned into a lover and
Mother what a lover, you wore me out
All you did was wreck my bed
And in the morning kick me in the head
Oh Maggie I couldn't have tried anymore
You lured me away from home cause you didnt want to be alone
You stole my heart I couldnt leave you if I tried

I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school
Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool
Or find myself a rock and roll band that needs a helpin hand
Oh Maggie I wish I'd never seen your face
You made a first-class fool out of me
But I'm as blind as a fool can be
You stole my heart but I love you anyway

Maggie I wish I'd never seen your face
Ill get on back home one of these days

Rod Stewart, Maggie
And the goddess Anita Pallenberg

"...-- ¿Y quién la pueda ver si aquí no hay nadie? He recorrido el pueblo y no he visto a nadie.
--Eso cree usted: pero todavía hay algunos. ¿Dígame si Filomeno no vive, si Dorotea, Si Melquiades, si Prudencio, el viejo, si Sóstenes y todos ésos no viven? Lo que acontece es que se la pasan encerrados. De día no sé qué harán; pero las noches se las pasan en su encierro. Aquí esas horas están llenas de espantos. Si usted viera el gentío de ánimas que andan sueltas por la calle. En cuanto oscurece comienzan a salir. Y a nadie le gusta verlas. Son tantas, y nosotros tan poquitos, que ya ni la lucha le hacemos para rezar porque salgan de sus penas. No ajustarían nuestras oraciones para todos. Si acaso les tocaría un pedazo de Padrenuestro. Y eso no les puede servir de nada. Luego están nuestros pecados de por medio. Ninguno de los que todavía vivimos está en gracia de Dios. Nadie podrá alzar sus ojos al cielo sin sentirlos sucios de vergüenza..."

Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo

Monday, October 09, 2006


But if I live and should you die for Ireland
Let not your dying thoughts be just of me
But say a prayer to God for our dearest island
I know He'll hear and help to set her free

And I will take your pike and place my dearest
And strike a blow, though weak the blow may be
Twill help the cause to which your heart was nearest
Oh Danny Boy, Oh, Danny boy
I love you so.

Sinead O'Connor's original third verse added to Danny Boy

Sunday, October 08, 2006


"... What do you believe?
I know how to answer it now. What I believe is that we will kill each other, that we will hurt each other. We will destroy our neighbours and we will exile them. We will sell our children as whores. We will murder and rape and punish one another. We will keep warring and we will keep hating and we will believe that we are just and righteous and faithful. We will keep killing and selling one another and we will believe that we are just and fair and good. We will pursue pleasures and destroy one another in these pursuits. We will abandon our children. We will do all this in the name of God and in the name of our nature. We will create poverty and illness and we will create obscene wealth and the depravities that arise from it. We will think ourselves just and righteous, faithful and sane. We will hate and kill and piss and shit on one another. We will continue to do so. We will create Armageddon. In the name of God or in the name of justice or, simply, because we can. This is what I believe".

Christos Tsiolkas, Dead Europe
Art by Odd Nerdrum

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Wednesday, October 04, 2006


"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."

William Faulkner, As I Lie Dying

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

I've got to tell you
how I love you always
I think of it on grey
mornings with death

in my mouth the tea
is never hot enough
then and the cigarette
dry the maroon robe
chills me I need you
and look out the window
at the noiseless snow



At night on the dock
the buses glow like
clouds and I am lonely
thinking of flutes
I miss you always
when I go to the beach
the sand is wet with
tears that seem mine
although I never weep
and hold you in my
heart with a very real
humor you'd be proud of
the parking lot is
crowded and I stand
rattling my keys the car
is empty as a bicycle
what are you doing now
where did you eat your
lunch and were there
lots of anchovies it
is difficult to think
of you without me in
the sentence you depress
me when you are alone
Last night the stars
were numerous and today
snow is their calling
card I'll not be cordial
there is nothing that
distracts me music is
only a crossword puzzle
do you know how it is
when you are the only
passenger if there is a
place further from me
I beg you do not go
Frank O' Hara, Morning
art by Margaret Keane

Monday, October 02, 2006





"To Mason, a particular sort of male beauty is everything. It doesn't exist in the world, but certain young actors and rock stars come reasonably close. Hence his art, which collages together extraordinary scraps of human matter, each body part carefully ripped from a photo or magazine, then glued down on a white sheet of paper and aligned with complementary fragments in painstakingly casual, Frankenstein-ish constellations. It's instinctive stuff. He can explain it in theoretical terms, but it's completely obsessive. Luckily for him, obsessive gay art is very trendy at the moment, so he makes a decent living. But his art's just about his own loneliness, period, whether collectors and critics understand that or not. He's building imaginary lovers, friends, sons, younger brothers, slaves, gods. It's a vaguely creepy thing, and it means a fucking ton to him, unlike his actual friends and acquaintances"

Dennis Cooper, Guide

Sunday, October 01, 2006


"...Take this longing from my tongue
All the useless things these hands have done
Let me see your beauty broken down
Like you would do for one you loved..."

Leonard Cohen, Take This Longing

Friday, September 29, 2006



"Con el amor debe existir la necesidad de preocuparse, en todo momento. El amor no es una póliza de seguros. El amor es tensión. En una relación lo que yo valoro es la tensión constante, en el sentido de no tener nunca la ilusión de entender a la otra persona. Cuando te enamoras, crees haber descubierto el ave del paraíso, la persona mágica del Otro Mundo. De pronto, ves a un ser humano en toda su extraoridanaria magia. Y sabes que nunca podrás entenderlo, que nunca podrás dar algo por supuesto. Es eternamente imprevisible... y tú lo eres para él, si te ama. Y ésa es la tensión. Eso es lo que esperas que nunca acabe".

Chrsitopher Isherwood en la revista Gay Sunshine, 1973

Wednesday, September 27, 2006


"... Estaba reconcentrada. No había nadie por las inmediaciones, todo estaba tranquilo y podía pensar un poco. Extrajo del bolsillo de sus shorts el paquete de cigarrillos que había comprado la noche anterior. Aspiró el humo lentamente. El cigarrillo le daba tal sensación de ebriedad que le parecía tener la cabeza pesada y como desprendida de los hombros. Pero tenía que terminarlo.
'M.K.' Eso figuraría escrito en todas sus cosas cuando tuviera diecisiete años y fuera famosa. Volvería a su casa en un automóvil Packard rojo y blanco con sus iniciales en las portezuelas. Tendría las letras 'M.K.' bordadas en rojo en sus pañuelos y ropa interior. Tal vez sería una gran inventora. Inventaría minúsculas radios del tamaño de un guisante, que la gente portaría encima y se aplicaría a los oídos. También máquinas para volar, que las personas se ajustarían a sus espaldas como mochilas, y con las que se moverían rápidamente por todo el mundo. Después de eso, sería ella la primera en construir un gran túnel que cruzaría la tierra hasta la China, y en el que la gente podría bajar en grandes globos. Esas eran las primeras cosas que inventaría. Todo estaba planeado".

Carson McCullers, El corazón es un cazador solitario
Pic Sally Mann

Monday, September 25, 2006


"Según mi experiencia, las emociones no pueden describirse con una sola palabra. 'Tristeza', 'alegría', 'remordimiento', esos términos no me dicen nada. La mejor prueba de que el lenguaje es patriarcal quizá sea que simplifica demasiado los sentimientos. Me gustaría tener a mi disposición emociones híbridas, complejas, construcciones germánicas encadenadas, como 'la felicidad presente en la desgracia'. O esta otra: 'la decepción de acostarse con las propias fantasías'. Me gustaría mostrar la relación entre 'el presentimiento de la muerte suscitado por los ancianos de la familia' y 'el odio por los espejos que se inicia en la madurez'. Me gustaría hablar de 'la tristeza inspirada por los restaurantes malogrados', así como de 'la emoción de conseguir una habitación con minibar'".

Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Pic Robert Mapplethorpe

Sunday, September 24, 2006


"My head tells me it's time to make a change
But my heart is telling me I love ya
but you're strange".

Bob Dylan, Abandoned Love

Friday, September 22, 2006


His name was Perry
He had a learning difficulty
His father was a very mean man
His father burned his skin
His father send him to his death
He was ten years old
He was ten years old
He was ten years old

Her name was Naomi
Beautiful round face, so ashamed
Told me how to please a man
After school in the back of a bus
She was doing it every day
She was eleven years old
She was eleven years old
She was eleven years old

Her name was Sheryl
Black hair, like an electric space
She would pretty paint my face
She was a very good friend
Her father would come to her in the night
She was twelve years old
She was twelve years old
She was twelve years old

His name was Donovan
He was a very good friend
The cards were stacked against him
He was selling cocaine
The last time I saw him
He was thirteen years old
He was thirteen years old
He was thirteen years old

His name was Charles
He said he was in love with me
We were both fourteen
Then I had to move away
Then he begin to smoke crack
Then he had to sell ass
I don't know where he is
I don't know where they are

Cat Power, Names
Pic by Evgueny Mokhorev

Wednesday, September 20, 2006


"Todo lo cotidiano resulta aborrecible,
sólo hay un lugar para vivir, el imposible"

Reinaldo Arenas, Autoepitafio

Tuesday, September 19, 2006


"She craves a hole that she can go in
A sheltered cave that I have never seen
Not in my life, and not even in my dreams"

Will Oldham, Wolf Among Wolves

"La mezcla de arrogancia e inseguridad es tan volátil como la tan pregonada del alcohol y la gasolina. La diferencia es que con la primera hay un gran fuego interno que suele acabar con una implosión autodestructiva".

Maya Angelou, Gather Together In My Name
Pic Nan Goldin

Friday, September 15, 2006


Cigarettes and chocolate milk
These are just a couple of my cravings
Everything it seems I like is a little bit stronger
A little bit thicker, a little bit harmful for me

If I should buy jellybeans
Have to eat them all in just one sitting
Everything it seems I like is a little bit sweeter
A little bit fatter, a little bit harmful for me

And then theres those other things
Which for several reasons we won't mention
Everything about ¡em is a little bit stranger, a little bit harder
A little bit deadly
It isnt very smart
Tends to make one part
So brokenhearted

Sitting here remembering
always been a shoe made for the city
Go ahead accuse me of just singing about places
With scrappy boys faces have general run of the town
Playing with prodigal sons
Takes a lot of sentimental valiums
Cant expect the world to be your raggedy Andy
While running on empty you little old doll with a frown

You got to keep in the game
Retaining mystique while facing forward
I suggest a reading of lesson in tightropes
Or surfing your high hopes or Adios Kansas

It isnt very smart
Tends to make one part
So brokenhearted

Still there's not a show on my back
Holes or a friendly intervention
I'm just a little bit heiress, a little bit irish
A little bit tower of pisa
Whenever I see ya
So please be kind if Im a mess

Rufus Wainwright, Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk

Thursday, September 14, 2006


The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Elizabeth Bishop, One Art

Wednesday, September 13, 2006


"He liked the funeral laments, specially the one in which a mother asks her dead daughter how Death, called Haros, received her. The daughter replies, 'I hold him on my knees. He rests against my chest. If he is hungry, he eats from my body, and if he is thirsty, he drinks from my two eyes".

Edmund White, Skinned Alive

Tuesday, September 12, 2006


"...Human relationships are as vast as deserts: they demand all daring".

Patrick White, Voss

Monday, September 11, 2006


"Se miraron largamente, y en aquel momento todo volvió a ser como antes, como si nunca se hubieran separado; pero ella no se ofreció a entrar en la oscuridad con él, ni él se lo pidió.
--Un día --dijo Strange, encontraré el hechizo para ahuyentar la oscuridad. Y ese día volveré a tu lado.
--Sí. Ese día. Te esperaré".

Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell

Sunday, September 10, 2006


I hold you in my arms
as the band plays
What are those words whispered baby
just as you turn away
I saw you last night
out on the edge of town
I wanna read your mind
To know just what I've got in this new thing I've found

So tell me what I see
when I look in your eyes
Is that you baby
or just a brilliant disguise

I heard somebody call your name
from underneath our willow
I saw something tucked in shame
underneath your pillow
Well I've tried so hard baby
but I just can't see
What a woman like you
is doing with me

So tell me who I see
when I look in your eyes
Is that you baby
or just a brilliant disguise

Now look at me baby
struggling to do everything right
And then it all falls apart
when out go the lights
I'm just a lonely pilgrim
I walk this world in wealth
I want to know if it's you I don't trust
'cause I damn sure don't trust myself

Now you play the loving woman
I'll play the faithful man
But just don't look too close
into the palm of my hand
We stood at the alter
the gypsy swore our future was right
But come the wee wee hours
Well maybe baby the gypsy lied

So when you look at me
you better look hard and look twice
Is that me baby
or just a brilliant disguise

Tonight our bed is cold
I'm lost in the darkness of our love
God have mercy on the man
Who doubts what he's sure of

Bruce Springsteen, Brilliant Disguise
Pic by Nan Goldin

Saturday, September 09, 2006


Desde el primer dia supe que te amaba,
y llora en secreto mi alma enamorada,
tu amor vagabundo no me da respiro,
porque se que nunca, nunca seras mío.

Bebí tu veneno y caí en la trampa,
dicen que lo tuyo no es mas que un azar,
que para mi tienes solo sufrimiento
que voy a caer en lo profundo del infierno.

Y no me importa nada por que no quiero nada,
tan solo quiero sentir lo que pide el corazon
y no me importa nada , por que no quiero nada
y aprendere cómo duele el alma con un adiós.

Porque tengo el corazón valiente,
voy a quererte , voy a quererte
porque tengo el corazón valiente,
prefiero amarte
después perderte

Gilda, Corazón valiente

Wednesday, September 06, 2006


Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.

The room is turning slowly away from the moon.
This is pleasurable.
Or shall I cross that out and say it is sad?
In one of the tenses I singing
an impossible song of desire that you cannot hear.

La lala la. See?
I close my eyes and imagine the dark hills I would have to cross
to reach you. For I am in love with you
and this is what it is like

or what it is like in words.

Carol Ann Duffy, Words, Wide Night

Friday, September 01, 2006




"...--Aceptando la noción de presencia, quiero decir que ciertas ficciones, principalmente Conan Doyle, Stevenson, pero muchos otros también, establecieron una matriz más poderosa que cualquier registro documental... Las presencias que ellos crearon, o "figuras", si lo preferís, como el Golem del Rabino Loew, se excedieron, y demasiado rápido como para limitarse a las convenciones de esa ficción. Se escaparon hacia la corriente del tiempo, al éter. Se escaparon hacia el laberinto. Alcanzaron una vida independiente.
'Los escritores eran médiums. Lo ponían en palabras, le daban forma a una estructura de energía que ya estaba circulando. Se montaron sobre la curva del tiempo, de modo que al escribir rechazando la reacción inhibitoria de la mente racional, fueron capaces de elaborar un texto profético...
...Rimbaud y Verlaine recorrieron el terreno. Verlaine dijo: 'En cuanto a Londres, lo hemos explorado tiempo atrás... Whitechapel, Angel, la City... no tenía misterios para nosotros". Decía que la City poseía "la atmósfera de un local de máquinas, del interior de un corazón. Encuentras allí a todos tus héroes".
'Y ésta es la pura verdad. Están allí como guías. Los poetas que nacen y mueren a las viejas puertas de la ciudad.
'Chaucer, Keats. Milton, nacido bajo el signo de The Spread Eagle, su padre tenía otro local, The Rose. Y están allí en las efigies de madera, las fachadas Moloch. Es el recinto más oscuramente codificado del mundo occidental. Magia maligna, vudú pre-consciente.
"En aquel momento, el mejor momento para ellos, el momento de su vida, Rimbaud y Verlaine pasaban los días en ese inhumano y acalorado acoplamiento sexual, una 'alineación total', oculta en intención y consecuencia. La voluntad de Rimbaud y el voluntario sacrificio de Verlaine, a contramarcha, en espiral, intercambiándose, animus y anima, leyendo los sueños del otro, escenas de vértebras de víbora, hélices dobles, dolor. Los actos negros. Como Crowley y Victor Neuberg en sus ineptas mutaciones. Estaban llenos de ojos dentro de sí mismos."

Iain Sinclair, White Chappell, trazos rojos