Artificio para sobrevivir / Emilio Adolfo Westphalen

Survival Artifice

– Prevent the sunrise – shut the night’s innumerable doors and windows – don’t leave a single crack through which the sun might leak – annul all vestiges that Apollo’s chariot once crossed the firmament. – He who expressed this idea – does he intend to put a black mask without any openings on our face? – does he forget the inescapable alternation of light and darkness – the recurring schedule – the eclipses punctual for the occasion? – Of course – he answers. But what does language serve if it doesn’t insinuate (invoke) the impossible.
         All of you, look at this: the sun fell in the (fictional) trap set for it by words. There is no sun – there is no light – nor do we need the night.
         –(Close your fists – squeeze your eyelids shut.)





{ Emilio Adolfo Westphalen | Peru, 1911-2001 }