Friday
Tuesday
The useless dawn finds me in a deserted street- corner; I have outlived the night. Nights are proud waves; darkblue topheavy waves laden with all the hues of deep spoil, laden with things unlikely and desirable. Nights have a habit of mysterious gifts and refusals, of things half given away, half withheld, of joys with a dark hemisphere. Nights act that way, I tell you. The surge, that night, left me the customary shreds and odd ends: some hated friends to chat with, music for dreams, and the smoking of bitter ashes. The things my hungry heart has no use for. The big wave brought you. Words, any words, your laughter; and you so lazily and incessantly beautiful. We talked and you have forgotten the words. The shattering dawn finds me in a deserted street of my city. Your profile turned away, the sounds that go to make your name, the lilt of your laughter: these are the illustrious toys you have left me. I turn them over in the dawn, I lose them, I find them; I tell them to the few stray dogs and to the few stray stars of the dawn. Your dark rich life ... I must get at you, somehow; I put away those illustrious toys you have left me, I want your hidden look, your real smile -- that lonely, mocking smile your cool mirror knows.
Jorge Luis Borges
Saturday
favourite
all the music during all these years
the music in the middle of the night
in a room that stays in darkness, except for the light that comes from a screen
the books
so many books read by two
maybe in the same language or not
probably at the same time, but not in the same space
some poets, dead, surely
some writers, dead, surely too
some musicians, dead and alive
("all the best ones are dead": someone would say)
the love for the bass
there is always a bass in between
some cats,
stray cats of ocurse
that is what we are.
and nothing else
the music in the middle of the night
in a room that stays in darkness, except for the light that comes from a screen
the books
so many books read by two
maybe in the same language or not
probably at the same time, but not in the same space
some poets, dead, surely
some writers, dead, surely too
some musicians, dead and alive
("all the best ones are dead": someone would say)
the love for the bass
there is always a bass in between
some cats,
stray cats of ocurse
that is what we are.
and nothing else
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