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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