"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them"
Marilyn Monroe

Die Braut

Hanna Höch, 1927

"...A wedding, after all, is a ritual. But is there something beyond the ritual at all? There isn't... It's a great shame that we melancholiacs don't value rituals. I'm having a tough time at parties myself. Now we'll all have fun, fun, fun. Perhaps because melancholiacs set the stakes higher than at just a few beers and some music. And there's more of a party if we have coloured festoons. It seems so phony. Rituals are, you know. But if rituals are worth nothing, that goes for everything, you know..."

Comments on Melancholia. Lars von Trier

A.

Lluvia

 

heavy weather
heavy heart
if it rains
I cry

El esfuerzo

"...y si sospechamos lo decadente de nuestro estado
¿cómo nos rehabilitaremos?".



Me caigo y me levanto. La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos. Julio Cortázar.

Sueño

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore--

And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat?

Or crust and sugar over--

like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags

like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Dream Deferred. Langston Hughes

Agua.

El bosque se duerme y sueña,

el río no duerme, canta.

Por entre las sombras verdes

el agua sonora pasa

dejando en la orilla oscura

manojos de espuma blanca.

Llenos los ojos de estrellas,

en el fondo de una barca,

yo voy como una emoción

por la música del agua;

y llevo el río en los labios

y llevo el bosque en el alma.

Nocturno. Conrado Nalé Roxlo