Orides Fontela

SPEECH

All
will be difficult to say:
the real word
is never easy.

All will be hard:
pitiless light
excessive living too
conscious of being.

All will be
able to wound. Will be
agressively real.
So real it rends us.

There is no pity in signs
nor even in love: being
is excessively lucid
and word is dense and wounds us.

(All words are cruelty.)

[Trans. Chris Daniels]

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