Poem
Valeria Tentoni
I WAS ABOUT TO WRITE A HATE POEM
but I laid down in bed for a whileI didn’t answer the phone.
I thought about it:
it said things that had to be said
all the lines that came seemed brilliant to me
they went well together, moved well,
the words were sharks smeared with oil in my head,
appearing, one after the other, dictated by a supernova
I said to myself yes, I have to get up now
and I’ll write these definitive lines of vengeance
and anger and pain and revulsion and vengeance
and everything will be all right then, the poem
will heal me, it will remain there
like a smoldering scar,
it will open this way for me. I’ll get up then, and the poem,
or if not that at least I’ll get up.
But I fell asleep.
ESTABA POR ESCRIBIR UN POEMA DE ODIO
ESTABA POR ESCRIBIR UN POEMA DE ODIO
pero me tiré un poco en la camano atendí el teléfono.
Pensé el asunto:
decía cosas que tenían que ser dichas
todos los versos que se me ocurrían me parecían brillantes
encajaban bien, se movían bien,
las palabras eran tiburones embadurnados con aceite en mi cabeza,
aparecían, una detrás de la otra, dictadas por una supernova
me decía sí, ahora me voy a levantar
y voy a escribir esas líneas definitivas de venganza
y bronca y dolor y repulsión y venganza
y todo va a estar bien después, el poema
va a curarme, va a quedar ahí
como una cicatriz humeante,
va a hacer por mí ese camino. Me voy a levantar y el poema
o si no es eso por lo menos levantarme.
Pero me quedé dormida.
From: Antitierra
Publisher: Libros del Pez Espiral, Santiago de Chile
Publisher: Libros del Pez Espiral, Santiago de Chile
Poems
Poems of Valeria Tentoni
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I WAS ABOUT TO WRITE A HATE POEM
but I laid down in bed for a whileI didn’t answer the phone.
I thought about it:
it said things that had to be said
all the lines that came seemed brilliant to me
they went well together, moved well,
the words were sharks smeared with oil in my head,
appearing, one after the other, dictated by a supernova
I said to myself yes, I have to get up now
and I’ll write these definitive lines of vengeance
and anger and pain and revulsion and vengeance
and everything will be all right then, the poem
will heal me, it will remain there
like a smoldering scar,
it will open this way for me. I’ll get up then, and the poem,
or if not that at least I’ll get up.
But I fell asleep.
From: Antitierra
I WAS ABOUT TO WRITE A HATE POEM
but I laid down in bed for a whileI didn’t answer the phone.
I thought about it:
it said things that had to be said
all the lines that came seemed brilliant to me
they went well together, moved well,
the words were sharks smeared with oil in my head,
appearing, one after the other, dictated by a supernova
I said to myself yes, I have to get up now
and I’ll write these definitive lines of vengeance
and anger and pain and revulsion and vengeance
and everything will be all right then, the poem
will heal me, it will remain there
like a smoldering scar,
it will open this way for me. I’ll get up then, and the poem,
or if not that at least I’ll get up.
But I fell asleep.
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