Monday, September 28, 2009

A date with the pavement

Light... no control... the floor... restrained tears...
FEAR, HELPLESSNESS, SHAME, SELF-COMPASSION
pain... loneliness... stupidity... life-long flash-backs...
my photo, your canvas, her picture, our movie, his book.

Are you ok?, she says... thick Canadian accent
I... I am not sure, I say with my thick "Latin" accent
I did not look at her, I will never remember her face,
your voice is still in my head.

I did not accept her help, rode my bike once again
pain, tears, anger, self-blame, clumsiness, 
What the fuck am I doing with my life?
I pretended to ask myself, 
waiting to hear a "you've done everything right" 
one of those kinds of answers that are full of shit

The water from the shower mixes up with my salty tears
the pain is there, it will remain here
I like the physical pain better, it hurts 
but at least I know it will go away.

Big-time reality check:
The reality struck you right on your face, Mariele
your elbow protected you from the pavement
but whether you like it or not
it was the pavement what made you feel alive again.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Find Me

Phonecall at 5am... what time zone am I in again?
tears that don't stop; the weakness that has always been there
your mind, your heart, your hands, 
my feet, my stomach, my airless lungs.
Can't breath, can't think, maybe I should not speak.
No money to escape, "responsibilities" to fulfill, 
a long-expired unofficial promise that keeps me here.
My dried sentiments are exploding, absent thoughts, non-existent words.

HOW THE FUCK DID I END UP BEING HERE?
I cannot see you and it is obvious that I cannot see myself. 
My clumsiness made me lose my Auryn,
I have no army to fight The nothing
there is no Atreju, no Fuchur... just The nothing. 
I cannot hear the oracle and I can't wake up from this Ende-like reality
that has invaded my destroyed dreams.
I should sleep to see if someone rebuilds the hope
that we shared for so long; but I have been long gone;
do you remember how long ago?
Je suis perdue, tu n'arrives pas 
c'est quoi ton histoire?
3am international call
foreign nostalgia
domestic romanticism 
internationally-displaced love.

Friday, September 11, 2009

Plesse do not stop time

The same excuse comes up, Mariele, you go out for a cigarette. Can I smoke outside?, You say because you have to ask so no one would see your tears... everyone thinks they have more reasons to own those tears, even you... you who "have been there since the beginning". Many have more to say than you do, don't they? Then you cry, you cry because there won't be anything... again... this is the life you chose but you never thought it would hurt, did you?  Tears in solitude... solitude that you thought you were so used to it;  you were never by yourself, were you? But you pretend that you are so good in saying good bye, I will see you again, I will miss you, I was, You were. I was not, You were not, WE WERE and I COULD NOT EXIST WITHOUT YOU THAT IS THE FUCKING TRUTH, you constructed me in the person I am today and I am happy YOU did.  After four years I am glad it wasn't someone else. Will I cry? Yes. Will I be happy for you? Yes. I am not pretending; this is me... naked, there is no fancy dresses, no make up, no politics, finally there is no rhetoric, no catchy discourses, no words, no psychological excuses... this is the same girl trying to survive four years ago with no intention to be heard but desperate to hear what you had to say... the one who needed someone who could count on.... 
I will be alone and I will overcome not because I am too strong but because I know that if I want to see you again I know what has to be done. This is the life I chose, the one of  not setting roots, we made a mistake we started loving the blossoms of something that could not grow during several freezing winters, at least I know that our plant grows in the dessert, it doesn't needs water, it feeds from hibiscus tea.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

No es una cuestión de borrachera

Quisiera que no me molestara estar callada
excuse ME; yo NO puedo estar contenta sintiendome ausente
si yo me saboteo sola que sea mi problema
si sos vos a quien le gusta estropear mi vida
no me importa que tanto entiendas mi dilema
aquí habrá más que una pelea.
Yo vine acá por mi ¿viste?
y sacrifique el tiempo con la gente
que en verdad me importa
que en verdad tengo que darle bola
mis hermanas sin tener la misma sangre
its not that I think I am so much better
I just don't care if you are so much less
who am I to judge your decissions?
I am not judging, I am not, I will not,
I am just trying to survive in this agony
that I did not choose
but you do not care
whether I got here by myself or not
you just need those words... those acts... those...
caprichos así lo digo yo en español
la perseverancia es una cosa, es no aceptar un no
y trabajar por un sí
I know you will not understand what I mean.
Tu sólo DEBES tener todo
tenemos personalidades muy fuertes dijiste
NO if I had it you... you would be fine
y mi puto hígado no estaría lleno de bilis
and I could give you the self esstem you so fucking need
pero no la tengo, ni la tendré, así que mi hígado se llenará
de bilis mientras tu buscas tus mil y unas noches
para que despiertes sin saber dónde perdiste todo
yo perdí lo mío el día que TÚ lo arruinaste....
ojalá aún funcione para que la pueda recuperar
disculpá pero yo no me lleno de 5 mill y tres noches
yo no, yo me llenó de una canción de reggeaton, de leer un blog,
de la arena del desierto, de discusiones coherentes...
de más que amistad, me lleno de saber que no soy
tan como tú me dijiste.... no one is terrified of me
me gusta al menos mentirme que respetan tal cual soy.
Can you see yourself? you said
No, no puedo no tengo un espejo enfrente de mi....
mis espejos los dejé colgados en Canadá.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

El Reino de Tláloc es un Matriarcado

Simpre decía que no quería tener hijos
mi excusa justificaba el miedo al posible fracaso
mis multiples sueños no estaban para lugares fijos
y las familias 'disfuncionales' comprobaban my egoismo
Cuando escogí este camino que piso
por el que seguidamente me caigo, corro y maldigo
no te pregunté si estabas de acuerdo, no pregunte qué sentías
te enseñe un papel con cifras y presupuestos
lleno de sueños que mataban todos los sentimientos.
Como toda la vida me apoyaste sin jugar al antagonismo
y como es de costumbre yo lo justifique con mis 'logros',
con comparaciones innecesarias donde es en verdad todo narcisimo 
No tardé mucho para regresar derrotada, perdida y la cabeza baja.
No soy yo la hija pródiga, no soy yo la futura celebridad, no.
Sé que no hable por varios años, se que guarde todo
y aunque pretendo saber tu inquietud
no tengo la menor idea de tu preocupación
Yo viví en mi mundo de polly pockets, el barco de vapor, barbies
contradecido por la incomprención por parte de las amistades, 
la clase superficial y normativa, la escuela marista, el materialismo mexicano, 
todos casi siempre vencidos por la familia perfecta
De pronto decidí encerrarme en Camus, Fuentes, Allende y García Márquez
mis plumas, mis cuadernos,
 mis realidades paralelas en las historias de mi cabeza.
Si no hubiera sido por tu apoyo, que yo creí incompredido... 
esas altas y bajas me hubieran consumido, 
si no hubiera sido el deseo por tu ejemplo a sobrepasar...
nunca hubiera tenido el coraje para hacer lo que estoy haciendo.
No se si llamarlo adolescencia, pero viendolo hoy conscientemente años después,
yo soy feliz, no por lo material, no por un novio, 
no por un lugar en su 'so(u)ciedad'
porque tu me diste un arma que la gente nunca tiene, 
siempre podemos regresar a casa, sin ninguna pregunta, sin ningun juicio.
podemos regresar sabiendo que nos equivocamos,
para que nos abraces y comenzar de nuevo.
Yo por fín he sobrepasado lo que mi lenguaje político me permite llamarle
'casi una década de terrorismo psicológico' que hoy lo veo y doy gracias de haber salido
no lo pude hacer sin ti, sin tu apoyo,
sin tu progresismo, sin tu gran capacidad de entendimiento;
pudiste adoptar la actitud de las vecinas, 
de las mamas maristas,  de los padres de familia
gracias por no hacerlo, gracias por enseñarme eso,
 si soy algo feminista tu me enseñaste a serlo
Yo no quería tener hijos, 
me daba miedo que vivieran 
las 'tristezas y las injusticias'
de este mundo. 
Yo no quería que mis hijos vieran
como fui yo y soy parte del elítismo discriminanción y explotación
como dejé que el mundo siguiera contaminandose
cómo puedo ser tan hipocrita y tan inconsistente.
Y de pronto te ví a ti cuidando a Ella
a la arquitecta de todo este progreso, de toda esta emanticipación
y aún hoy me salen lagrimas de recordarlo, 
sin embargo no tengo palabras para describirlo.
Como tú, yo no pude tener un mejor ejemplo maternal
como tú al final del día solo hay una mujer en quién confiar
como tú yo tengo un alto estadard que superar.
para mi también tienes un lugar difícil de explicar.
Y quizá fue ahí, en ese momento, cuando me sequé las lagrimas
que entendí, quiero tener hijos, no por ser mamá,
sino para que en verdad tengan lo que tuve yo
para que me escuchen diciendo que te voy a 'cuidar'
sabiendo que eres tú la que siempre me a cuidado a mi.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

On est toutes la Malinche

Stop pretending, it fucking took you one comment.
Don't lie, deep inside you know it was a matter of stupid pride
like always, you say you don't care but sure you do
I recognize that predictable face,
that arrogant smile, there is no humility
no... it is you, it is me and my never-obsolete self-preservation laws

You are starting to feel something else don't you?
You felt it that night
No breakfast? No movie? No coffee?
Je te téléphone quand je finis
11 heures le soir... rien
you know you are walking around because you are mad.

That is why you are running
you are feeling, you can't concentrate, you need that edge
Same feeling every time, toujours la même histoire
Paris... tu es vraiment hypocrite!
Buenos Aires... siempre lo más fácil
Mexico... no, simplemente no.

Otra vez ese vacio en el estómago
El sol ya entra por la ventana del sótano,
tú sigues aquí Mariele, sentada en la misma mesa de la biblioteca
sin leer, sin concentrarte, sin hablar,
con solo ganas de tomar todos los libros...
¡todos!, tirarlos al piso correr entre ellos y
de pronto del piso tomar uno que diga
"Toma de Decisiones 101."
Una hora entera ha pasado sin que si quiera saques tu libro
piensas en él... como cada vez que escribes...
sientes un escalofrio... ¡Vete Mariele, empaca y como siempre vete!
Si sentiste de nuevo esa insatisfacción,
hace ya 7 (¡mierda 7!) años que encontraste la solución.

Time is passing and you cannot write 
You look across your room, see those green hills?
 those were the ones you were wearing,
when you gave him that good-bye kiss
now look to the floor, 
you didn't think those red bulls were here for so long
It was like that, lying on your naked mattress,
for who cares? is not like you need the red sheets 
Air France, Toronto-Paris, Confirm your flight
green hills, empty red bulls, no red sheets. 
Then you looked at that wall of yours,
pictures of your past, most of my real friends are not even there,
you look to the other one, maybe it was your obsession with art.
What the fuck Mariele just decide!
it doesn't matter if in January you said 'never again'
just take a decision and that's your closure.

Alo, c'est quoi la Malinche?
And you smile, you just smile full of happiness
La Maliché... C'est pas facile a comprendre
Alors tu veux prendre un verre et comme ca tu m'explique? 
Your Air France session has expired please log-in again
I'm sorry I have to finish writing my essay
yeah Mariele exactly the one you have not even started
  
Suspiras... como si más aire te fuera a ayudar,
an other hour has passed
quisieras ser el angel azul de la pintura de Chagall
'I'm going to start making decisions that you might not like'
he smiled, 'I think you've been doing that for quite a while'

¿Qué decidiste?, podemos irnos a Grecia por dos semanas
Alors tu pars en Argentine?
We should go to Dominican for a week
Tu sabes que quieres, quieres sentarte a ver caricaturas
todos los tomos de Charlie Hebdo,
leer a Marquez, leer Fuentes uno que otro cuento de Cortazar
quieres estar haciendo nada para pensar en todo
1am el espejo... I don't want to end like that
el boleto más barato, ahí vas...

Monday, April 13, 2009

Prochain Arrêt... Lycée Daudet

Believe it or not almost five years have passed
I never thought I would be so fucking fast
August 29, we were so young 
2004 I guess we were also strong.
I was not afraid back then, 
at least we did not have the "responsibilities" we have today,
you said let's go to France, I just said When?
I did not even care if I didn't speak French.
Bienvenue, moi Je suis Emmanuelle
Rumy ¿qué dice?
Vous mangez tout?
No, Eva n'aime pas les legumes!!
I think it's almost 10am
That means il faut prendre un café
ask if anyone is going chez le boulanger
Rumy me traes un palmier.
Our afternoons drinking café viennois
sitting in La place de la Comedie
looking at the people who walked by
fumándonos un "gar" tras otro "gar"
Thursday is almost here, 
¿ya sabemos a dónde vamos a ir?
Ryan air says...
Ce weekend... on'y va en Italie
I see the elevator chez Espace Langue
going up by the time we just opened the door
I still hear your voice saying we should wait, 
while I give you that "we-are-taking-the-stairs" face.
Te debo dos euros Rumy, tu pagaste en Monoprix
Shit! I just lost my debit!
No Rumy tu pagaste antes el croque monsieur,
Merde! That was my stupid train!
We hear the Andean music while we are waiting for the tram
Polygone plays the music from La Star Academie every time
We are going to the Australian tonight
On peut prendre L'Amigo à Port Marianne
I can still feel the excitement of braking the rules,
I can still hear Danielle saying fermez la goule!
I will never forget our cigarettes at the window's edge
ni las bolsas de plastico para protejer tus pies.
Now that we think we are all grown up
I look back and maybe it was that little town were we belonged
I think today I am as happy as I was back then,
I'm sure you know what type of happiness I'm trying to explain
You often said that it was a trip to the beach what changed me
I can tell you it was that fall without hesitating
That is why you have an intrinsic place in my heart
one that was perfectly constructed by my mind
You are the only one who has not questioned
the random decisions I have made
because you always believed I was doing it for a better end
your advice and support got me here
una servilleta de la desti me hace seguir.
We need to go back,
be roommates again,
pretend the years have not passed
share une tarte aux pommes
and each one have un café au lait
comme ca j'oublierais toutes mes défaites.
We will go back, we are still young
on est aussi plus forte
soon we will be sitting back in Antigone