11.01.2016

¿Poesía? / Armando Rojas Guardia

Poetry?

I speak (pompous, satisfied poem).

But next door
their radios also speak
and the commercials
speak
and the AP speaks from the newspaper
and the Minister of Culture
speaks.

We would have to
unspeak (ourselves).

Today is the only function of poetry.




{ Armando Rojas Guardia, Yo que supe de la vieja herida, Caracas: Monte Ávila Editores, 1985 }

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