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Thursday, May 11, 2023

ALL SOULS (ALMA SE TIENE A VECES, NOTHING'S A GIFT?)

ALL SOULS (ALMA SE TIENE A VECES)


Everything the dead predicted has turned out completely different. Or a little bit different — which is to say, completely different.

 

Alma se tiene a veces.
Nadie la posee sin pausa
Y para siempre.
Día tras día,
Año tras año
Pueden transcurrir sin ella.
A veces solo en el arrobo
Y los miedos de la infancia
Anida por más tiempo.
A veces nada más en el asombro
De haber envejecido.

Wisława Szymborska [vi’swava ʂɨm’bɔrska] (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012)


Everything the dead predicted has turned out completely different. Or a little bit different — which is to say, completely different.

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan...I'm drowning in debts up to my ears.
I'll have to pay for myself
with my self,
give up my life for my life.

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