OUT OF THE ARMS...

..."no es nada agradable ser clavado en la cruz, abandonado,

es mucho más placentero olvidar a un amor

que no funcionó

ya que finalmente

ningún amor funciona"...

 

 

 

HENRY CHARLES BUKOWSKI

 

 

OUT OF THE ARMS...

 

 

 

Out of the arms

and into the arms of another

 

I have been saved form dying on the cross

by a lady who smokes pot

writes songs and stories,

and is much kinder than the last,

much much kinder,

and the sex is just as good or better.

 

It isn't pleasant to be put on the cross and left there,

it is much more pleasant to forget a love wich didn't

work

as all love finally

doesn't work...

 

It is much more pleasant to make love

along the shore in Del Mar

in room 42, and afterwrds

sitting up in bed

drinking good wine, talking and touching

smoking

 

listening to the waves...

 

I have died too many times

believing and waiting, waiting

in a room

staring at a cracked ceilling

waiting for the phone, a letter, a knock, a sound...

going wild inside

while she danced with strangers in nightclubs...

 

out of the arms of one love

and info the arms of another

it's not pleasant to die on the cross,

it's much more pleasant to hear your name whisperend in the dark.

 

 

 

Con una temática  urbana basada en la soledad, enfado, ironía o desamor; encuentro que el mayor mérito de Ch.Bukowsky es la desnudez e inmediatez de la palabra para ahondar en conceptos que podrían ser tratados de forma menos clara. Sin demasiada pretenciosidad en la técnica, varias líneas de Bukowsky invitan a reflexionar sobre determinadas situaciones (amor/desamor, belleza/desencanto etc), que finalmente proponen más horizontes para los sentidos y el pensamiento.