11.21.2011

Contra la policía / Miguel James

Against the Police

My entire Oeuvre is against the police
If I write a Love poem it’s against the police
And if I sing the nakedness of bodies I sing against the police
And if I make this Earth a metaphor I make a metaphor against the police
If I speak wildly in my poems I speak against the police
And if I manage to create a poem it’s against the police
I haven’t written a single word, a verse, a stanza that isn’t against the police
All my prose is against the police
My entire Oeuvre
Including this poem
My whole Oeuvre
Is against the police.




Kentakes, poemas para la reina y otras obras maestras (2003)




{ Miguel James, Mi novia Ítala come flores y otras novias, Mérida: Ediciones Mucuglifo, 2007 }

4 comments:

. said...

Amigo, copié el poema en mi blog. Saludos.

http://sunrecords.blogspot.com/2011/11/miguel-james-contra-la-policia.html

richard lopez said...

very nice!

Guillermo Parra said...

Hi Richard. Yeah! Miguel James is fantastic. I'll be translating more of him over the next few days.

Guillermo Parra said...

Saludos, Rodrigo. Miguel James es uno de los grandes secretos de Venezuela.