terra incognita

by Roberto Lavidez

illness

enflames 

desire for  

justice

purifying

the world

in bloodshed

and slaughter

as bird clings

to its perch

in the grip

of disorder

struck

by storms

of intolerance

and despair

in the growing

darkness of

sun and air

a saint

immersed

in boiling water

sinking 

all equality

and all inequality

need for penance

a need for death

singing among

the outcast

and bogus

alms-seekers

who lay at

church doors

toward ignominy

excess

of possessive

and curious love

for the purpose

of mere pleasure

indulging in

the bizarre

from the abysses

of terra incognita

through terrestrial

vanity

and obsession 

of riches

dug 

from the earth

unquestionable 

errors

piled in 

the niches

arrive at a 

probable truth 

enclosed

in the mire

jeopardizing

the very order

of cosmos

everything

disappears

into the void

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floating space

by Roberto Lavidez

anyone

has the right

to be wrong

in view of

the devastation

of the earth

historicity of

all discourse

amid hiatuses

and ruptures

breakdowns

and failures

where manipulation

of the real appears

uncovering

a conspiracy

of the powers

a hierarchical order

on  impulses

and tendencies

overthrowing

the infrastructure

of the body

made of glass

endlessly

broken up

and restored

once the pill

has been

swallowed

a utopian idea

of the asylum

loaded with

cannonballs

make men

indifferent

as it had

made things

indistinguishable

a sort of

decentering

of the gaze

disappearing

of disappearance

forgetting

of forgetting

a floating space

without ties

outside of humanity

and all possible

communication

the irrationality

of madness

an irreversible

turning point

an absence

in the heart

of all presence

generating

antihumanism

in the thematics

of death

subdued by the

ecclesiastical power

orchestrated by

a conductor of

the entire subtlety

of pulverizing

ego

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smug ecstasies

by Roberto Lavidez

dreams

populated

with fragments

of experience

hinting

at a pipeline

to profundity

contriving

to eliminate

the residues

in smug ecstasies

of knowingness

nourished by

permanent anguish

attacked

as castles

in the air

to equivocate

seems churlish

following the

train of thought

a deep reservoir

of subversive truth

in an atmosphere

of unrelieved

moral squalor

this bold linking

of cleverness

and stupidity

praise and blame

simultaneously

clear and crazed

a saturnalia

of rough justice

producing a

lasting hangover

of sliced eyeballs

and soft watches

the endless journey

of a sleeping mind

somehow managed

to hold itself together

into poisoned oblivion

and the surrounding

miasma confronting

a genuine threat

beyond a formidable

inbuilt capacity

to gloss over its

own consequences

it is quite possible

that the end

of history

is in the offing

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clumsy scribblings

by Roberto Lavidez

a series of aimless

ramblings rendering

fearful passions and

morbid emotions

searching

through the

darkened places

going down

to the world

of the dead

behind the mask

of calm hid

tremendous rage

fulminates

with bombast

of wrath

doors flung open

as if by a storm

entering a most

perilous adventure

to show the wonders

of the deep

the ways and the

histories of the gods

cynicism and boredom

come sneaking in

eavesdropping

behind doors

and curtains

between the conquerors

and the conquered

the answer prowls

around the question

it proves nothing

against the heavens

the coming eternal

justification

of our temporality

to love meant

to tyrannize

quivering with

the fever of life

after outbursts of

vanity and complacency

clumsy scribblings

on pillars by senseless

childish hands

no smallest area

left untouched

the good has lured

us into evil

seized by a profound

indifference

showing the wonders

of the deep to an unknown

and an unexpected guest

looking on oneself as

something alien

singing songs 

slaves sing 

in their hopeless labor

-  then silence

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the clash

by Roberto Lavidez

clash of thesis and

antithesis leading to

a jarring ride on the

cobblestone paths

synthesis bouncing

with the shifting

angles of light

shielding eyes from

the blinding sun

high in the sky

dizzying array of

images flickered

on the premise of

restoring law and

order by having

the right people

doing the right thing

dialogue dashed

amid mutual

recriminations

overwhelmed with 

the weight of existence

growing number

turning up in

trash cans and

road sides

or vanished

without explanation

result of historical

patterns of repression

inflicting substantial

casualties

with inner turmoil

nightmares and

mood swings

slipping into

fever-fed dream

spreading into

the air like a

twinkling burst

of fireworks

exhumed unreadables

by Roberto Lavidez

life is fundamentally

absurd through

the eyes of a

worldly expatriate

led into a thick

morass of vanity

or intimations

of mortality

through a fog

of approximate

translation

omnipresent sun

plays out its

fateful role

emerging from

the desert starving

and dehydrated

exposing a requisite

number of images

suddenly vanish

for no apparent

reason

unreadables

indecently exhumed

filled with the

disgruntled progeny

of defeated peoples

bringing new facts

to an old case that

would have grown

and thrived

in the darkness

turning reason into

a weapon

to decipher the

encrypted messages

embodying the

ineffectual fantastic

wish for justice

and retribution

from a steady

current of moral

concern and

political insight

become slaves

to a vision of

human life

we live in growing

fear that we shall

forget the past

born on a land

without ancestors

and without

memory but

a nightmarish

world of heat

violence and horror

might have been

looking for

a candy store

but finding

dynamite instead

stockpiled

in a match factory

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on the fringes

by Roberto Lavidez

an exotic aura

of mystery

surrounds

nihilists with

aversion to

order

well endowed

with heartless

cruelty

a harbinger

of social implosion

and collapse

addicts of ideology

on the fringes of

derangement

seeing beauty

in instruments

of death

fascinated with

weapon invention

abandoning

the last vestiges

of plausibility

insensitive towards

human suffering

the inevitable life

and death struggle

evading the various

encirclements

searching for

words with more

eloquent sarcasm

to counter any

twinges of conscience

and then they

sing mournful

songs expressing

the bitterness

of their heart

©robertolavidez2013