- "The Soul That Suffered From Being Its Body" by césar vallejo
translated by clayton eshleman
You suffer from an endocrine glad, it's obvious,
or, perhaps,
suffer from me, from my tacit, stark sagacity. ___ / :) "it's obvious"
You endure the diaphanous anthropoid, over there, nearby,
where the tenebrous darkness is.
You revolve around the sun, grabbing on to your soul,
extending your corporal Juans
and adjusting your collar; that's obvious.
You know what aches you,
what leaps on your rump,
what descends through you by rope to the ground. ___ /m.
You, poor man, you live; don't deny it,
if you die; don't deny it,
if you die from your age, ay, and from your epoch.
And, even if you cry, you drink,
and, even if you bleed, you nourish your hybrid eyetooth,
your wistful candle and your private parts.
You suffer, you endure and again you suffer horribly,
miserable ape,
Darwin's lad,
bailiff spying on me, most atrocious microbe.
And you know this so well,
that you ignore it, bursting into tears.
You, then, were born; that
too is obvious at a distance, poor devil and shut up,
and you put up with the street fate gave you
and you question your navel: where? how?
- My friend, you are completely,
up to your hair, in the year thirty-eight,
Nicolas or Santiago, someone or other,
either with yourself or with your abortion or with
me
and captive in your enormous freedom, ___ /y
dragged on by your autonomous Hercules ...
But if you calculate on your fingers up to two,
it's worse; don't deny it, little brother.
You say no? You say yes, but no?
Poor ape! ... Gimme your paw! ... No. Your hand, I meant.
To your health! Keep suffering!
tenebrous. autrocious. autonomous.
bailiff /like a sexton, flaubert, swing rope bells
mind body duality / no duality!
/wait. 'in the year 38.' 1938. but he died that year? this in book Human Poems was published: ? '1939' posthmsly then ? and so did he he did write this poem the year that he died..
and what of "Black Stone Lying" ?
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