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Life in Times of Corona
Sorry Poetry

Sorry, the poems are as dull as the crisis
like crises always are particularly this 1 once

Xanadu (Ofgabitofame)

Go outside to change my mood
reedit my text for final reading

Put on my gloves
fasten the mouth cap

Everything is indeed closed
but (able to) find some comfort

In front of railway station
in the evening sun

Desolated hardly any travelers
growing cold when night falls

Letters already print my mind
and give the relief sought for

Saving three coffees
and two tram rides

Back to basics
like spiritual retreat

Is that the moral
of the nationalist story

That closed borders
replaces animosity

By fear of touch and
feeling to close to others

Life ain’t that bad
provided that health

Will be surviving
chilly escape

Which one may never know now
for sure in these days of coro-na.

 

 

Sin embargo, antes de llegar al verso final ya había comprendido que no saldría jamás de ese cuarto, pues estaba previsto que la ciudad de los espejos (o los espejismos) sería arrasada por el viento y desterrada de la memoria de los hombres en el instante en que ....
(from Gabito 1967 Cien años de soledad)

Gabito is Gabriel García Márquez.

English trans from 1970

Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when ....
(from Gabito/Gregory Rabassa 1970 100 Years of Solitude)

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