Aguirre, Δέκα σχεδόν ποιήματα

Η εθνική μας συνείδηση δεν αναπαύεται με ξενόγλωσσες δημοσιεύσεις. Ωστόσο, εδώ κι εκεί, μπορεί και να κάνουμε μιαν εξαίρεση.


Είναι λαμπρό. Είναι εμπνευσμένο.

Σωστά λοιπόν λένε πως στη λογοτεχνία η ειλικρίνεια είναι πηγή πρωτοτυπίας. Κι αυτό το ποίημα στραφταλίζει τόσο λαμπρά επειδή είναι ειλικρινές.

15 Νοε 2020



Our ethnic conciousness finds no comfort in other languages. Nevertheless, from time to time we may make an exception


It's brilliant. It's inspired.

Rightly they say that in literature honesty is a source of originality. And this poem is so brilliantly sparking because it is honest.



Angela AGUIRRE


Ten failed poems


One

I fear that my legacy will be an unfinished poem

Like the ones that fill my notebook

I do not want to look back at my live and see

That it could have been so much more

Than it turned out to be


Two

My life is a series of almosts

I fear that i will never know greatness

That i will not be able to stay around long enough

To even become good enough to be great at anything


Three

I often feel like I do not belong

Like a concert in a library

A red dress at a funeral

I am a magnet for wide eyed looks

People will not always tell you when your different is showing but

their eyes will

Brows raised in confusion

It is more polite to say "You are one of a kind"

Than to try understanding why

They will say you are unique

Claim variety is the spice of life

Laughed at often and dismiss the moment because

It feels too much like a turtleneck in the summertime

These compliments will always feel

more like insults


Four

I am in a perpetual state of barely getting by

Of trying to catch up

Ironic that someone so fullspeed ahead can so easely get left behind


Five

When people tell me I am amazing

I do not believe them

I smile and give thanks and hope not to be discoverd

I am a fraud

If only they knew that my accomplishments

feel a lot more like accidents

As if the universe sometimes makes mistakes in my favor like

a glitch in the solar system, a data error

Someone somewhere must have spelled my name wrong

I hope no-one notices


Six

The best of intentions with the worst execution

I am what happens when a brilliant idea meets a terrible mistake


Seven

My life must look a lot like the fourth of july

Upon arrival I light the sky bright loud and temporary

I am a beautifull explosion but

only for a moment

A shortlived spectacle

A pyrotechnic poet

I have always wished I were more fireplace

than firework


Eight

I have a love-hate relationship with the pillbottle

I am now at 60mg of Adderall a day

When I don't take it I feel useless

But when I do the dry mouth plagues me

And I am less myself

But I guess that is a good thing

People say they see the difference

That I am more pleasant and agreable

Sometimes I wonder if I am medicated

to make everyone else's live easier


Nine

I wish my life were easier

Wish I wasn't such a problem

Such a series of unfortunate events

There are only so many apologies you get

until "I'm sorry" is no longer enough


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Έγινα τόσων χρονών για να συνειδητοποιήσω πως όλα αυτά δεν είναι παρά χαρακτηριστικά /αυτού στην εξουσία του οποίου είναι ο άνθρωπος/.



Angela Aguirre at a TEDx talk at California State, LA, 2017


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