Beyond and closer. (fragment) Ernesto Cardenal. |
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Mr. Cummings business and his fascinating product catalog Finnish Lahti 20 mm anti-tank canyons bazookas: "the perfect weapon"... International Armaments Corporation (INTERARMS) or rather the Death Supplier Corp. he bought Soviet Egypt-captured weapons to Israel to sell them to Latin Americans in the United States, sold weapons to Figueres' Costa Rica as well as Figueres' enemy, Somoza he armed FRG with Holland's MGs, bought for a million Franco's old weapons and sold 500.000 FN rifles to an Argentinean gorilla, 27 vampires to Trujillo bought to Sweden. Mr. Cummings business. Weapons to invade Cuba, to support Somoza, to kill black in Africa, for the CIA, uninidentifiable origin. Mr. Cummings business friend of Franco, Somoza, the Sha. These have been prosperous years for his firm. 97 United States wars since Pearl Harbor. Mr. Cummings sole business "Death Merchant" but a retailing death merchant: More respectable firms they have the Monopoly. As for the peace projects "highly sceptical." A yankee soldier, in a campaign field, with camisole, smoking with half-close eyes: it is Humphrey Bogart, of course. Poet Aratos who San Pablo mentioned in the Aerophag was inspired by Pythagoras (men belong to God's race according to Pythagoras). The whole universe musical harmony. Everything is number and harmony in the music and in the stars. Or waves as we understand now, melodious waves, the Hertzian waves, the light waves, the sea waves and those of the atoms. The color of a flower they are the light waves ehich that flower doesn't absorb . And the girls beauty are also waves The scent of the flower it is its song. Vibration of its atoms. The harmonious conformation of the rose atoms it is its scent. Of diffuse and formless gassy states the condensed and complex solidity . Of randomized atoms undefinided clouds the structural symmetry and developed form. Mass and light relationship: the mass creates pressure which produces heat which generates light. The sky turning round. And therefore the matter, the whole matter is not but clouds, forms in mutation, or spheres their unequal steps and in uniform proportion so same. The cosmos, as a circle for the omahas. Clay blue pot for the jíbaros. The sky for the Mayan a turtle shell. And Plotino felt it as a single tense rope which touched in an end the other one also receives the movement and another rope touched there is a same harmony and if the vibration passes from one lyre to another one, by sympathy, there is a also single harmony in the universe. Suddenly the first notes, and it leaves a boldface, moving all the movable of its body boldface, moving all the movable of their body toward May stick every bit a color and a boy comes closer, comes closer, with contortions as those of a snake injected with alcohol backwards to forwards, forwards and backwards and she flirts with devotion and rejection, rejection and devotion, and now the others already enters the fray Mayo-Yaaaa! The quick movements of the body are the quick movements of the music. At the center of the circles which are full with fire and of the other further circles which are full with night, impelling the union of the female with the male and the male with the female: so this way God for Parmenides. For what Shawn, the dancer, also said not being able to imagine God without rhythms. " ...His infinite Rhythmic Being" Those who answer to the spring days lengthening or their reduction in autumn. "Earth, sun, stars, so orderer seasons... Is it not easy to prove that the gods exist, dear guest?" Being for the nuer tribes one and many at the same time. As the bird it leaves the egg, the zuñi say. The first men didn't walk erect They had a tale. When the world was still new and fresh. Of an age without hyenas the Sumerians spoke. They have looked for in their canoes in the lakes the algonquines another world islands where there is not hunger neither war (they say they have seen them). The Pygmy remember the great tree that united the sky and the earth. "We have lost the sky" the ojiwas sing. The 4 seasons in their regular order, without confusion, nothing damaged the man and the man didn't damage anything, but the universe order was alterated the Chinese say. Let us give a case a great wheat crop. The abundance is not more food for all but hunger. Overproduction decreases production and the firings are sales decrease and for the unemployments and more factories stop until shortage increases the production again and there is overproduction again and crisis and again the turn... unless overproduction is weapon-like and there is war because the cycle is broken in this way thus, there is not truly overproduction. And they thrive this way in the war. Getty made his first million in the World War I. When finishing the war a Texan one with more oil than the Axis: Hunt (that Germany, Italy and Japan all together). D.K. Ludwing ships welder when beginning the war had already a fleet, the world's fifth fleet when finishing the war. War basic functions? Boys died in the trenches so that Republic Iron increased from 3 millions to 148 millions boys died in the trenches so that Anaconda Copper increased from 12 millions to 58 millions boys died in the trenches so that International Nickel increased from 4 millions to 74 millions. |
You'll hear talk on wars and rumours of wars in the radio. They'll end when monopolies end. They ruin adversaries without hate them. Natural, like heat or rain. ...the rest like animals. Irrelevant the one who said this or where or when. (In Mexico for instance, they were sold in
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"Cántico
Cósmico" Ernesto Cardenal ITESO, 1991; Cantiga 6, pp. 55-71 |
Most recent revision: November 24, 2004. |
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