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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