pulse of life
by Roberto Lavidez
it is present
but invisible
inaudible
a somewhat
differently
clothed
imperialism
of global
modalities
a time
devoid of
emancipation
narratives
to perceive
all too clearly
the difference
between
freedom
and slavery
we have
become
the new
endangered
species
with all things
stratified
and stagnant
only the cast
of characters
is altered
to fit new
circumstances
enclosed by
the waters
and the
passage
of time
positioned
to receive
contradictory
messages
the dispensation
of rewards
and eternal
condemnation
all the
destruction
bloodshed
famines and
pestilences
endured
the slavery
of some
came to be
considered
necessary
to the
freedom
of others
quickening
the pulse
of life
the mixture
of kindness
and cruelty
so prevalent
throughout
temporalizing
and spatializing
regimes
that write
the maps of
world history
imposing itself
with predictable
and schematic
obviousness
a chronicle
of marvelous
reality
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thinking the
unthought
by Roberto Lavidez
man
forgets
himself
because
he exists
entirely
for the
moment
an endless
present or
permanent
temporal
fusion of
past and
future in
the now
so that
he should
part with
its past
cheerfully
imbued
with the
necessity of
thinking the
unthought
falling
outside
the scope
of intentions
like a
presupposition
that
conditions us
but that
we are
unable
to grasp
it is a
drawing life
from
the dead
plucking
redemption
from the
jaws of
defeat
like a worm
that eats
its way
forwards
to penetrate
each atom
to get down
to the depth
of matter
to develop
a framework
in which
some
restitution
reparation
can be
achieved
seeking
to move
beyond
the here
and now
of physical
reality
to give an
astonishing
sense of
weightlessness
with regard
to the gravity
of history
denied in
the culture
of anecdote
and nostalgic
order
we live in
a disenchanted
world
reduced to
a background
which always
appears
the same
oddly
tangential
to its most
pressing
concerns
whereby
meaning
expresses
itself
in the
dream
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the real
question
by Roberto
Lavidez
one must
conduct
a careful
study
of the
whole
intelligible
realm
we
who are
together
exiles in
hatred and
despair
must talk
things over
rather than
merely obey
in silence
the important
thing
is to live
and survive
through
stubbornness
and endurance
that we
haven’t become
cowards
or cannibals
to find
the courage
to denounce
its own errors
the real
question
is not how
to die
separately
but how
to live
together
with the
emphasis
on the
temporality
of the world
each day
more
oppressive
than the last
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the stone
by Roberto Lavidez
the point
of departure
is the stone
a unified
origin and
a shared
end with
blood
in other
words
it never
ends
the variety
of different
things
existing in
the universe
they are
bound to be
problematic
without
justifying
its excesses
metaphors
of our own
loneliness
a loneliness
in motion
darkening an
atmosphere
from which
we thought
the posion
had been
drained
things both
fall apart
and become
unknowable
they are
beyond both
thinking
and being
like a
desert track
that a gust
of wind
could erase
we don’t
overcome
the alienation
in our life
we cannot
add useless
words to a
set of facts
we know that
in the end
we all lose
the stone
should be
able to speak
for itself
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wherever Che
exists
by Roberto Lavidez
the horizon
of the
conceivable
hovered
closely
over the
horizon of
the possible
in a fragile
history of
competition
under the
corporatist
state
fighting
against
imperialism
wherever
it exists
to find
a tactical
means of
achieving
relative
superiority
public
must not
be daunted
but must
defend
what is
most sacred
domesticate
the interior
world’s
uncontrollable
forces
where
public
officials are
motivated by
corruption
and personal
interests
tasting
the fruits
of power
after
prolonged
abstinence
a period
that had
smothered
the spirit
of inquiry
and had
silenced
the voice
of reason
all the rights
of man
have a moral
limitation
facing a
radical and
pragmatic
redefinition
which could
eclipse to
a political
gospel of
a fully
romantic
resistance
where
the only
alternative
will be
death or
victory
a formula
that provides
comfort
and cure to
Che’s pain
abundantly
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conceptualizing the
non-conceptualizable
by Roberto Lavidez
the place
man assigns
himself is at
the center of
the universe
he is on
the way out
towards an
understanding
of the quasi-
stability of
some of our
knowledge
opening up
the splitting of
the unconscious
in order finally
to embrace
the rigor of
overcoming
the self
the eternal
mystery of
the world is its
comprehensibility
knowing that
every aspect
of human life
including survival
depends on
cognition
the non-
conceptualizable
the gratuitous
blankness or
whiteness is
conceptualized
in a certain
vestigial
existentialism
what is
important now
may be different
from what was
important in
the early days
of performing
our pantomime
philosophy
when there was
no conflict
between
certainty on
some issues
and ignorance
on others
it is now
a question
of conceptual
deduction
focus is on
the connection
of words to
other words
intersecting
with the statue
that we bring
to life
not to the world
satisfied only
by weak
mechanisms
opinionated
and deluded
by definition
saving truth
through the
sacrifice of the
unthinkable
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mysterious
realities
by Roberto Lavidez
the picture
is complicated
by mysterious
realities
there are far
too many
unknowns
and there is
no way
around it
the risks of
degenerating into
high-sounding
gibberish are
considerable
strained
analogues
are in a state
of arrested
development
that left it
utterly incapable
of making sense
denial
avoidance
and magical
thinking
aren’t new
in the greater
scheme of
things
mixed with
pretentious
restatement
of the obvious
the ability
to rewrite
expectation
is overcome
by the
billowing
tedium
it probably
doesn't seem
serious enough
but the living
membrane
we so
mercilessly
destroy is
existence
itself
it’s the dose
of ignorance
that makes
the poison
we constantly
make the effort
to obscure the
stark realities
refusing to meet
the real enemy
and they are
us
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olive green
Fidelismo
By Roberto
Lavidez
the history
is littered
with countless
ideas and
schemes in
kaleidoscopic
convergences
and divergences
rectifying all
the shoddiness
and mediocrity
the Pyrrhic
character of
such sad and
fraudulent
accomplishments
of imperialism
the country
should be
the bulwark
of liberty
having a
boundless
faith in the
consciousness
of human
beings
and not a
shameful
link in the
chain of
despotism
rejecting
the claims
of pseudo-
leftist
bourgeois
intellectuals
and all
functionaries
systematically
resorting to
deliberate
conscious lies
the people
should be
the source
of all power
maintaining
a high spirit
of chivalry
throughout
the struggle
ordinary
citizens
captivated
by the
irrefutable
truths of
Marxist
literature
could say
the state
is myself
though their
revolution is
not red but
olive green
wielding
simple but
implacable
logic
in conflict
with all
that is
absurd and
contradictory
with the right
of insurrection
in the face
of tyranny or
betrayal of the
liberal cause
of the
revolutionary
movement
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epistemic uncertainty
by Roberto Lavidez
the truth
travels
the way of
the serpent
throwing off
moronic
conventions
the soporific
security of
four walls
that create
a chowder
of epistemic
uncertainty
where reason
and rationality
cannot be used
to differentiate
between
good and
bad ideas
words fold
over words
disjointed
going nowhere
everyone had
practiced
the art of
diatribe
rather than
of predication
underpinned by
a world-view
not too far
from despair
there are
judgments
being made
diagnosis
discourses
interpolations
verdicts
in the
crushing
silence
of immense
blocks
of stone
quantum
instability
leaking into
the visible
realm
reacting
from a
loftier height
of vanity
narcissism and
hypersensitivity
the combination
of fate and
human fallibility
littered with
cultures that
have navigated
themselves
to extinction
a constant
reminder
of history
the abnegation
of the here
and now
as if meaning
was being
sucked out
of existence
everything
had gone
through
on the quiet
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blind domination
by Roberto Lavidez
from beyond
the barrier
of time past
culture itself
is in complicity
with blind
domination
capable of
inspiring love
and terror
allowing
immediate
consciousness
to unfurl
in the end
the whole
rationality
of the world
the memory
of nature
rather than
nature itself
it was as if
a tide had
suddenly
gone out
and in its
absence
the seabed
was revealed
for the
first time
each moment
is saturated
in the past
and presages
the future
full of
intensity
profound
thought
and deep
inner passion
tied up with
lovelessness
extremely
vulnerable
to rifts
rivalries and
hierarchies
of all kinds
perpetuated
behind
its facade of
universality
a transcendental
explanation
brought about
an immediate
unburdening
as if it were
a seamless
whole
existing in
a reality
contiguous
with life
only to
succumb to
the teleology
of assimilation
slipping in
through the
back door
of cultural
discourse
and current
episodes in
an unstable
chain of
subjugations
seldom
controlled
by the wishes
of individual
thinkers
delving into
the study
of the soul
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sorting out
the fictions
by Roberto
Lavidez
the golden rule
is that there are
no golden rules
standing amid
the surging
murmur
of life’s
restless sea
in the midst
of the
upward
thrust of
goodness
there is the
downward
pull of evil
creating
friction
based on
the lives of
others and
one’s own
imagination
embedding it
with vivid
details that
it would be
difficult
to sort out
the fictions
far beyond
the grasp of
any individual
the power
to stand alone
is worth
acquiring at
the expense
of much
sorrowful
solitude
the welding
together of
many disparate
elements
far more veneer
than substance
would seem
to exacerbate
the cycle
all dream-bubbles
must eventually
burst at a final
wakeful touch
allegory reduced
to the desperation
of mixed metaphor
pushing the laws
of probability
to their limits
which may
turn out to be
quite different
from our current
expectations
unrequited
interludes
had churned
into a full-blown
embarrassing
obsession
there is
something
wistful and
a little pathetic
in all this
to follow
equally fallacious
argument to
equally absurd
conclusions
through false
virtues
with which
people kidded
themselves
enforcing
if necessary
the unwritten
rules of the
shotgun
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