Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch
Chord Planting

Monday, March 13, 2023

Retrovisor - Wing Mirror (Reprise)

Joel "Him"


It is not a claim to correct this term, but the digression about it is a claim that it is nothing more than a curious object.

A look back in the life of the human being -my human being- gives me an idea that I want to share that comes in handy while I see the mirror that says Joel, a wise old man, also silently hysterical, who did not admit the doubt. And I would like to believe but they have awarded me -or rather I want to believe that they did-, a genuine skepticism although obstinate in cafeteria discussions.


I am facing the computer on which I write and if I lose my gaze I find the silhouette of someone who, in Plato's time or rather he said: “what happens behind me is reality. The shadows that I see reflected are only a distorted image of that one”. How visually dissonant the world is when I observe it at 130 km/h, a speed already too fast to live.


Could it be some kind of time machine to hear the same sound twice? A question without marital status but if it is citizen enough for this thought, which is already retrograde, is updated at every moment. But I consider stopping. Although if I don't retro-dact I don't retro-regress if it's about concluding. I feed myself back in the same way that the medium by which the vibrations emitted by a naked body that is manipulated does. Do I resonate? Glare? Yes. And perhaps because I frequently go to the past consciously and unconsciously or what do I know about the conflict that ponders my human tendency. The planet consistently resonates with its guests, but its dedication to the notes that rock it is evident by the way it manifests itself. I have seen how some crystals explode exposed to a soprano aria that equals the frequency in which that glass is. Everything has its special tuning and foolishness reaches such an extent that it decodes it for its approval, causing the reckless effect.


I'm on a highway that has the sole purpose of controlling myself and I look through the mirror of the universe without getting a ticket for going with a drunk and lousy driver called with the alias of "him" who does not stop be a pronoun while freaking out and harassing the ride.


I am young but contemporary with my old age, which in turn deals with the complexity of the hypertheses that I shape, distributed in different almost disjoint groups. I regret the fact but if I remember correctly, I have not come this far by eloquence but by reflex. Only something got in the way of something we left behind that when I realized it, watching it through the tiny TV*, I went back in time causing its death. If the one in front is also doing the same, he may harm us. “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear”.


The word or prefix Retro implies an action of going back in time and therefore I would rather say, Reviewer.



Illustrated by Willington Giraldo 

Published by El Clavo Magazine




* The word TELE it comes from Greek root that it means FAR AWAY 

Sunday, March 12, 2023

The Real Virus (Reprise)

We all have the virus. We have the disease. In some it is already terminal and in others barely symptomatic. We feel depending on the social sphere in which we find ourselves. The program was "reset". We are back in Colonial times. But as a tangent in the space-time line, history cannot be repeated. It is the turn of Others. As with Animal Farm, another administration must be given way. You already had your turn. The game is like that. By turns. So in ten or twenty years it returns to the same, it is the turn of the next. In glíglico language: áblansé figlios di buda garças límala asno Evohé!, Evohe!


It happens in all areas of knowledge. Intelligence is not synonymous with well-being. Going through the academy is not synonymous with education. And so with everything. A patriot is not synonymous with a nationalist. A feminist is not synonymous with a woman, a pan-sexual is not a fagot, a song is not art, as perhaps a shoe hanging on a fence is.


The Comanche chief wants to talk. But if he feels threatened he can't just go for the jugular. Or what are you waiting for? The virus right? There is. But what is that about? What virus are we talking about? It is an endemic virus of the region (the West) product of segregation, classism, which even splashes to Art. Observe the skins of the musicians of a symphony orchestra. Or in the film industry who is the stellar. Or Painting, what is it but all the scrambled colors. Black. Like the abyss of Being.


It's the virus. That in each cardinal point of the continent it has its nuances until it reaches the most basic of the basics in daily life. "Lend me grandma for the preferential row." "Put this piece in the wrong way, it's already too late." "Show your aunt's stratum one receipts to the university so that your tuition is low." We all have. Year. You are not. Sorry. I do. Every chance I get I try to hack into that system. I am the worst citizen there is. It's the good thing about being introspective. You realize what a bad person you are. There I discovered my pathological symptoms. Symptoms that in a sneeze of the System were transmitted to me in order to return the favor that it does me. Through each experience with communities, in one or another romance (pan-chromo-sexual), chizga and borolombo (musical slang expressions) know what a bad person I am. I admit it. Now, there are still virgin humans who are just kindness. But remember, Kindness is not synonymous with turning the other cheek as the Gospel says. Even, there is nothing more warlike than the gospel. Elementary history. People go to homilies speech to look at shoes, glans, vulvas and only listen to the part in which the priest says "take and drink from it, all of you, because this is the chalice of my blood, which will be spilled for all of you". BLOOD. And people leave blessed, SPARTA!


In all those occupational psychological tests that they now do even to order food, I always lie trying to portray myself as a person with a clean conscience. In those that are online, a notice appears that says: “Your answers are not valid since in option A. If you see the possibility of stealing without being seen, you marked that you would not do it or at least that you did not think about it. He's not being entirely honest. This will not affect your request in the application”. Psychology shows that it is natural for the human being to have motions of this type. Now, if we have weapons, what would happen?


The Kingdom of New Granada, the name that this land bears, since Colombia barely glimpses a tritone –it lacks a sharp ninth, flat thirteen, clusters– (bah! bullshit musical terminology) now receives The Vaccine. It is a colossal sized cock that will go through every sphincter if necessary. And remember that there are several doses. The host cell is what feeds the virus. THE GUEST. It's the one that hurts. The virus without it cannot feed and replicate. Each citizen is that guest.


Regarding conspiracy theories and molecular... The Social Media. They are like a catwalk of ideas. All of them have silicones. In the more local groups (internet or physical) the ideas are more real. Human. Natural. We are resentful. I clarify, I am the resentful one. No you sorry. I want to give a bullet to what moves. Touch my puree and you'll see. I break your hand. Sorry for the barbarism and bad vibes in these words, they will still be lost in this ocean of opinions.


I am also the worst of professionals for not writing when it's time but for pleasure. A professional artist must do the same even when he doesn't feel like it. Even when he knows that he is paid by someone who is not of his creed or political faction. I don't know what I will live on, but I am definitely an orthodox relativist smug. Un-fabricant. I still don't know what I dis-manufacture but at least I found a catalogue. I saw it on the table like a manual. Who left it? It's a mystery. What is meant is that I must learn to be a “nice people”. Sign up for the parish. oh! but i was already there. And also with the Rosicrucians. And with the Witnesses. And with the quantum Presbyterians. Everything is virused.


That little worm in the brain is the real enemy. Not the neighbor, not the Shaman. On the other hand, the "indigenous malice" screwed us over and we also desecrated those who were first with the mere term. The ancestors. It couldn't be more disrespectful. Sorry. I. You are not. We will continue in conflict if we do not give up the turn. Yield. For those who drive, they will realize something as elementary as that. But we don't even do it. Pardon. You do. I don't. I don't give in. I am putting the cock-tip, the trunk until I get into it with a trailer and everything. Let the Other get in as he can. You already enjoyed folks. Now let others enjoy. It doesn't matter if the cycle repeats itself. The question here is by turns. Respect the line. Let eat. Let drink. Let yourselves be vaccinated too and I'll release the patent. Thank you for your music. Let the new follow. The concert started. HOLY GRAIL!  



Dedicated to every single colombian “nice people” of my city during the lockdown. All of us we know they who we are talking about.