Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts

Friday, April 22, 2016

human status for all



















human status for all:
birds,
oceans,
mountains,
uranium, 
rivers,
deserts,
worms,
jaguares,
bears,
fish,
whales,
wind,
soil,
waters,
migrants,
hummingbirds,
butterflies,
snakes,
insects,
bacteria,
germs,
shells,
mammals,
amphibians,
bipeds,
quadripeds,
all animals,
insects,
dogs,
coyotes,
wolves,
plants,
cats...

Animal status for all:
humans,
whites,
blacks,
browns,
yellows,
greens,
teas, republicans, democrats,
communists,
anarchists,
our languages
transmen, transwomen, queers, straights, curved,
the border patrol
the police
the homeless,
the rich,
the technocrats,
the evil bankers,
the corporativists...

On earth day,
all power to the animal people,
the web of life,
All power to the natural world without us...


poem & photograph: arnoldogarcía
Detail of mural on MacArthur Boulevard (near Mills College) in Oakland, California.

Sunday, January 25, 2015

what is lost | arnoldo garcía


I cannot take back
what I lost
what I lost
now belongs to another
If I take back
what I lost
I will have to take it away
from another I
I cannot take back
what I lost
what I lost
is only found in my memory
a body that needs another
to be found
to be whole
to be un-lost
without having to take back
from another
who is just
another I
Another I
who is lost
And cannot take me back
without taking away from me
what is lost...


Sunday, June 30, 2013

the noise of the noiseless


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I am the noise of the noiseless
I am the sex of the sexless
I am the orgasm of the orgasmless
I am the leg of the legless
I am the god of the godless
I am the mouth of the mouthless
I am the nose of the noseless
I am the eye of the eyeless
the blind of the blindless
the heart of the heartless
the seed of the seedless
the son of the sonless
the love of the loveless
O I am the voice of the voiceless (more or less)
the tonsil of the tonsilless
the silly of the silliest
the path of the pathless
the apathy of the apathyless

O I am the aim of the aimless
the scorn of the scornless
I am the land of the landless
I am the migrant of the migrantless
I am the ink of the inkless
the paper of the paperless
the documented of the documentedless
the undocumented of the undocumentedless
the illegal of the illegalless
the human of the inhumanless
the male of the maleless
the man of the manless
the erect of the erectless
the secret army of the proletarian armyless
the mess of the messless
the shadow of the unshadowed
the punk of the punkless
the shit of the shitless
the wit of the witless
the brains of the brainless
the more of the less
the more or less-less
I am the hope of the hopeless
the care of the careless
the cruelity of the cruel-less
the top of the topless
the bottom of the bottomless pit
i am the stink of the stinkless
the skunk of the skunkless
the music of the musicless
the mute of the muteless
the karma of the karmaless
the caramel of the appleless
I am the passion of the passionless
the hatred of the hateless
I am the body of the bodiless
hear me well, more or less, voiceless
for I am the sign of the signless
the deaf of the deafless
the dog of the dogless
I am the tattoo for the tattooless
I am the skin of the skinless
the nudity of the nudeless
the breast upon which of the breastless suckle
the lips of the lipless
the hip of the hipsterless
the style of the stylishless
the unpublished of the unpublishedness
the queer of the straightless
the long-play of the shortstopless
the grand slam of the hungerless
the lust of the lustless
the kiss of death of the lipless
the laughter of the laughless
the happiness of the sadless
the fucked up one of the unfucked ones
the hipster with double hip replacementless
the admonisher of the admonishless
the hand of the handless
O I am more or less human
more or less understood
more or less loveable
more or less
given an lifeless or two
I am the weeroh of the grasshoppers counting the heat of the sun's rhythms
I am the voice of the suffocating dreamless
I am the body entering the bodyless
I am the possession of the dispossessed
I am the tenderness of the hardenedless
I am the contradiction of the dictionless
I am the field, the hoe, the migrant, the whore, the shore, the mostless
I am the holy of the holyless
I am the sacred of the profaneless
the sin of the sinless
the hell of the hell-less
the purgatory of the constipatedless
I am the color of the colorblindness
the healer of the healless
the shoe of the shoeless
the scar across the back of the spineless
I am the cacophony of the cacophonyless
the cacao of the chocolateless
the poetry of the poetless
the saliva of the drymouthedness
I am the spit of the spitless
the smile of the sweet revengeless
I am the humanfan, unfolding,
the crack of the crackless
the drug of your manic choiceless
the vice of the viceless
the voice of the choiceless
the coitus of the handless
the leper of the leopardless
the assassin of the unassailableless
the bullet of the clueless
the shadow of the sunless
the wrinkle in time of the timeless
the space of the spaceless
the nectar of the flowerless
the loneliness of the solitudeless
I am O I am
the nothing of the nothingness
the synthesis of antithesis
the anti-matter of the matter-of-fact-less
the chingon of the chingonless
the puta of the putaless
the horn of africa for the buffaloless
the aztlan of your landless desire for land
the spontaneity of the masses for the massless
the community of the lostless
the soul of the soulless
the thought of the thoughtless
the vile of the vileless
the war of the warless
the peace of the peaceless
the weapon of the unarmedless
the word of the wordless
the voice of the viciousless
the viciousness of the speakerless
the democracy of the democratless
the notes of the noteless
the compost of the dungless
the fire of the fireless
I am O I am forever walking for the walkless
I am the job of the jobless
I am the revolution for the revolutionless
I am the justice for the injustless
I am the vision of the sightless
I am the rotting teeth of the teethless
I am the almighty for the mightyless
I am a world traveller for the localless
I am the commonest manifesto for the manifestoless
I am the listener for those who are never listened to the earless
the glue for the glueless
I am O I am the center for the centerless
I am the ballet for the clubfootedless
I am the drunk for the teetotalerless
the dictator of the dictatorshipless
I am the spoiled fruit of the fruitless
I am the soiled of the soiledless
I am the alibi of the guiltyless
the sorcerer of the witchless
the baying of the bitchless
the sixth sun of the sunless
the distant thunder of the rainless
the traitor of the complacentless
the missive of the illiterateless
the missile of the armyless
the doomsday of the presidential bunkerless
I am the cost of bad schooling and good mannerismsless,
I am a curandera of the healthless
I am the inexhaustible panting of the pantless
the butt of the jokeless
the glass eye of the glassless
I am the rage of your voicelessness
I am by all accounts a ventriloquist of the woodenless
I am a stand-up communist of the proletarian revolutionary punchline of march
a noise among the noisyness
a nose among the nosyness
The nooses for the counterrevolutionaries
I am the representation of the representationless
the loss of the lossless
more or less...

*

poem & painting by arnoldo garcía
"El poets," 25"x22" (2011, mixed media)

Thursday, April 25, 2013

[Poema 25] besos dobles | double moon





the primacy of matter over thought


Of thought over matter
Of my imagination of you
Over me
My thoughts are matter
The primacy of thoughts over thoughts
Your body is matter
My thought collides with you
The primacy of tenderness over all.

*

me rindo a tu cuerpo
mis ojos se hunden
siento tu dormir desdoblarse
en mis pensares
tenerte entre mis brazos
nutriría tenerte en mis pensamientos
te enredas, subes viña sobre
células eléctricas
te plasmas en mi orientación
intimista
eres una luz sexual
que se tensa bajo mis cabellos
desordenados
tu con tus cuerpos espontáneos
para mí
tu pechos pletóricos
tu vientre clandestino
listos para
futuras rebeliones
futuros amores
tus manos tuyas
tus pies sobre la tierra de mi ternura
incrucificable naturaleza
que me subyuga con su ternura terrestre

*

Ya basta de besos
Enough, my mother would say
Enough of kissing
Enough of tears and fists
Enough of separation
Enough of darkness
In your hands
Enough of portable wounds
Enough of death
Enough she says
Enough of why, why
Enough of kisses
And now
There is no way to close the sky
With her broad lips
Her hair shaking
From the “enough, enough!”
And she falls
Into her arms, enough…!

*

Brown clouds 
Brown earth
Brown moon
Brown mother
Brown moon
Brow fields
Brown sounds
Brown eagle
Brown tongue
Brown horizons
Brown dreams
Brown tears
Brown mountains
Brown brown
Brown all around
Brown clouds
Brown rains
Brown Buddha
Brown sex
Brown flowers
Brown jazz
Brown cúmbias
Brown orgasms
Brown bursting in colors
Brown blacks
Brown whites
Brown cosmos
Brown pianos
Brown music
Brown inks
Brown skins
Brown cries
Brown nukes
Brown wars
Brown warriors
Brown peace
Brown shelters
Brown saxophones
Brown dogs
Brown screeches
Brown breathing
Brown dreams
Brown blues
Brown future brown…
Brown in your senses
Brown woman

* 

Yo llevo alguien en mí
Que me quiere matar
Es algo terrible
Y no sabe nada más
Que quitarme la vida
No es mío,
Lo heredé
Fue transmitido
Fue una llaga obsequiada
Una herida helada
Con la que nací
Con la que crecí
Con la que lucho todos los días
Para sobrevivir
Y cada paso, cada sonrisa
Cada sombra de esperanza
Me cuesta
Me voltea las manos
Me las arruga en puño
Me las azota
Me golpean por dentro
Me surgen de mí saxofones, flautas,
Guitarras tiernas, hijas mías,
Todo lo que es ternura,
Memorias, cariño y lluvias,
Todo
Y me ahorca por dentro
Esta bestia
Esta bestia
Esta bestia
Que se traga mi esperanza
Y se roba mis mejores
anocheceres de otoño
Hace resaltar las tumbas de mis queridos

Soy captivo dentro de un ser
Que me estrangula con sus pensamientos
Y tú me sobas con tus palabras tus pulmones rasposos
Espero tus manos tu cuerpo tus sentidos tu locura
Para salvarme de esta bestia que me traga por dentro….

*

César Vallejo
escribiendo
unas que otras
notas
sobre
poesía
y
revolución
mientras su estómago
gruñe
y él muere
de hambre
a causa
de las dos.

*

La lucha
siempre
hace
mi corazón
temblar
más recio,
más fuerte
más seguro
igual a cuando estoy
en tus brazos
en tu memoria
en la lengua de tus lenguajes

*

The weapon of criticism
cannot, of course, replace
criticism by weapon,
material force
must be overthrown by a material force;
but poetry,
too,
becomes
a material force,
as soon as
it grips your heart…

*

Ella es mi jardinera.
Mi cuerpo su tierra.
Su sonrisa es siempre nueva,
dispara por el aire su olor
de cilantro recien cortado.
Toda la alegría
que va acumulando
estalla en su trabajo
fornido por sus manos.
Maíz digno, frijoles verdes
enredados en el viento y el cielo,
tomates verdemente sonrientes,
flores con sus cabezas
girando alrededor
viendo a todo,
la calabaza
que descansa
bajo sus flores y sus hojas
todo el día engordando y
chile verde ennegreciéndose
picantemente aguantando
el perfume solidario de la albaca.
Ella estira malezas
y tienta hojas y frutas
con la misma ternura
del despertar
¿Cómo se llama esta
jardinera,
comandante
del cultuvo de la tierra?


Friday, April 12, 2013

[Poema 12] Preguntas del ser | 1980

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Soy clase social o indio,
soy guitarra eléctrica o caracol lleno de pulmones.
Soy tierra
o soy mentira.
Soy viento
o aire acondicionado.
Soy mexicano
o soy humano.
Soy amante
o amenaza.
Soy voz alta
o voz baja.
Soy vida o
soy hombre.
Soy terror
o soy ternura.
Soy muerte
o soy mujer.
Soy hijo
o soy miedo.
Soy vecino
o vencedor.
Soy negro
o soy rojo.
Soy nuevo
o soy viejo.
Soy vidrio
o soy piedra.
Soy obrero
o soy campesino.
Soy música
o soy ruido.
Soy multitudes
o soledades
Soy danzante emplumado
o migrante
desplazado.
Soy ola, onda
o soy desbaratado.
Soy arete
u oído.
Soy tiempo
o espacio,
Soy proletario
o poemario.
Soy revolución
o evolución.
Soy negación de la negación
o síntesis.
Soy montaña
o soy lluvia.
Soy cadera
o soy cadena.
Soy labios
o soy besos?

Sunday, August 08, 2010

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Philosophical Materialism

I have gone mad, lost my mind in a mall.

I have gone from nothingness to everythingism:
I need to buy everything
CDs, shoes, blouses, shirts, underwear, designer jeans
earrings, perfumes, lotions, vacation homes, maids

I have gone from idealism to materialism
turned the world into a store
turned my ideas into a thrift shop
turned my heart into an auction
turned my body into an wishful-thinking six-figure salary
I am what I own
I am worth something because I own, I buy, I shop for the very best

What is primary?
My idea of a sale; can I buy it; can I own it; can I take it home; can I make it mine
What is secondary?
Whether I can beat out the other shopper.
What is tertiary?
whether i need it or not, i have it.

The thing determines my being
my being is a reflection of the things I can buy
the thing has become a thing-for-my-self

What is primary?
Materialism, own, own, own, property, things, people in my service
Matter determines ideas
Ideas are in the stores, I look for sales, I shop therefore I am.