(excerpt) The Petrifying Petrified, Octavio Paz
We
have dug up Rage
The amphitheatre of the genital sun is a dungheap
The fountain of lunar water is a dungheap
The lovers’ park is a dungheap
The library is a nest of killer rats
The university is a muck full of frogs
The altar is Chanfalla’s swindle
The eggheads are stained with ink
The doctors dispute in a den of thieves
The businessmen
With fast hands and slow thoughts
Negotiate in the graveyard
The dialecticians exalt subtlety of the rope
The casuists sprinkle thugs with holy water
Nursing violence with dogmatic milk
The fixed idea gets drunk with its opposite
The juggling ideologist
Sharpener of sophisms
In his house of truncated quotations and assignations
Plots Edens for industrious eunuchs
Forest of gallows paradise of cages
Stained images
Spit on the origins
Suture jailers present leeches
Affront the living body of time
We have dug up Rage
Hemos desenterrado a la Ira
El anfiteatro del sol genital es un muladar
La fuente del agua lunar es un muladar
El parquet de los enamoradores es un muladar
La biblioteca es una madriguera de ratas feroces
La universidad es el charco de las ranas
El altar es la tramoya de Chanfalla
Los cerebros estan manchados de tinta
Los doctores discuten en la ladronera
Los hombres de negocios
Manos rapidas pensamientoes lentos
Ofician en el santuario
Los dialectocis exaltan la sutileza de la soga
Los casuistas hisopean a los sayones
Amamantan a la violencia con leche dogmatica
La idea fija se emborracha con el contra
El ideologo cubiletero
Afilador de sofismas
En su casa de citas truncadas
Trama edenes para eunucos aplicados
Bosque de patibulos paraiso de jualas
Imagines manchadas
Escupieron sobre el origin
Carcaleros del futuro sanguijuelas del presente
Afrentaron el cuerpo vivo del tiempo
Hemos desenterrado a la Ira.