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one for Sherwood Anderson
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sometimes I forget about him and his peculiar
innocence, almost idiotic, awkward and mawkish,
he liked walking over bridges and through cornfields.
tonight I think about him, the way the lines were,
one felt space between his lines, air
and he told it so the lines remained
carved there
something like Van Gogh.
he took his time
looking about
sometimes running to save something
leaving everything to save something,
then at other times giving it all away.
he didn’t understand Hemingway’s neon tattoo,
found Faulkner much too clever.
he was a midwestern hick
he took his time.
he was as far away from Fitzgerald as he was
from Paris.
he told stories and left the meaning open
and sometimes he told meaningless stories
because that was the way it was.
he told the same story again and again
and he never wrote a story that was unreadable.
and nobody ever talks about his life or
his death.
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uno para Sherwood Anderson
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a veces me olvido de él y de su peculiar
inocencia, casi estúpida, torpe y empalagosa,
le gustaba caminar sobre los puentes y atravesar
los campos de maíz.
esta noche pienso en él, en la forma de sus renglones,
uno sentía espacio entre sus líneas, aire
y él lo contaba de tal manera que los renglones
quedaban grabados allí
algo así como Van Gogh.
se tomaba su tiempo
mirando a su alrededor
a veces corriendo para salvar algo
dejándolo todo para salvar algo,
y luego otras veces dándolo todo.
no entendía el tatuaje de neón de Hemingway,
encontraba a Faulkner demasiado inteligente.
era un cateto del medio oeste
se tomaba su tiempo.
estaba tan lejos de Fitzgerald como lo estaba
de París.
contaba historias y dejaba el significado abierto
y, a veces, contaba historias sin significado
porque eran de esa forma.
contaba la misma historia una y otra vez
y nunca escribió una historia que fuera ilegible.
y ya nadie habla de su vida o
de su muerte.
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Charles Bukowski
The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
Canongate Books
Published in USA in 2007, HarperCollins, NY
Published in Great Britain in 2010, Canongate Books, Edimburg
Dangling in the Tournefortia
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