REBEL – CHAPTER III – BEAUTY – ENGLISH

REBEL – CHAPTER III – BEAUTY – ENGLISH - RAFAEL LUDICANTI

 

1.

 

I had started to think,

but thinking was

no longer

enough.

 

It was necessary

to be there,

to touch

her.

 

Knowing how to

treat that woman

to make her

disappear

from my dreams.

 

2.

 

I think we're all

wrong, and

since I'm not

right,

I'm not sure

about that.

 

Classifying

unclassifiable

things

like horses

in the steppes

during a magical gallop.

 

3.

 

To be proud of ourselves

we only have

one life.

 

Same mistakes:

why not now?

 

But attempts

to do better

do more

damage.

 

4.

 

Watch the eyes

around you.

 

They are universes

of relative

truths.

 

A spontaneous

manifestation

of hypnosis.

 

5.

 

I was hurt so badly

that the guilt is

taking a new

impulse.

 

I feel it inside me

like the cracks in crystals.

 

There are things

that are so

unforgettable

that they

end up

happening again.

 

6.

 

I'm leaving.

 

We are no longer

the same.

 

My self distances itself

from what I love,

I have less of

what I want most.

 

I'm like that, but I hate it.

 

I'm leaving

but I wanted to go

without me.

 

7.

 

I won't look back.

 

I'm going to leave

riding my death

to beg peace

to the Gods.

 

But I'm not going

to cry

only because

the mission was

not accomplished.

 

8.

 

I am so helpless,

overwhelmed

only by my

sense of the

world, that I

would Pierce

my eyes

if I hadn't already

pierced them.

 

Jugular throbbing

as if love was

trying to

escape her.

 

The only person

in the world

I don't love

is me.

 

9.

 

Seven rifles

pointed at

our heads.

 

We really desserve

exemplar

punishment.

 

"I told the truth

by lying in court

because I know

what a crime is."

she said.

 

The sentence is never involuntary.

 

10.

 

Since I was born,

I have preserved

myself

from the faith

in the collective conscience,

sometimes it feels

like someone

is crying

beside me.

 

11.

 

It doesn't matter

if we're side by side

if the best

we can

to do with our

anguish

is to treat it

as if, in addition

to being incurable,

it were of no importance.

 

12.

 

Newspapers on

the asphalt

shoes on high

voltage cables

tickets exchanged

for expired

non-perishable food.

 

Ending hunger

is the problem

of the President

of the Republic.

 

13.

 

Irreverent as

a blank page

I correctly intuited

that it would

be introspective

if it assaulted

a heart

when life

had passed.

 

14.

 

Vanity doesn't matter,

only beauty matters.

 

Nihilists are

the prophets

who don't

give a shit.

 

Do not believe

those who

believe that

dogs are not

like humans.

 

15.

 

I am certainly honored

to prove my Worth

as patti smith said.

 

I'm not armed

with razor

blades

and I'm not

afraid of the gallows.

 

Talking bad about

friends

behind

their back

is not loyalty.