Friday, March 2, 2012
Rap to a Gay Soldier,
(Escrito por graffitero en el metro de NYC)
Bitchy Monroe, the fastest tongue in the Bronx
Never meant to die in Afghanistan
Willing to fight, by her own account
Escaping from mom, brother, uncle and love
Was killed not by enemy guns
She died, shot by a fucking homophobe
A Christian there serving God.
Bitchy Monroe, the fastest tongue in the Bronx
Never meant to die in Afghanistan
Willing to fight, by her own account
Escaping from mom, brother, uncle and love
Was killed not by enemy guns
She died, shot by a fucking homophobe
A Christian there serving God.
Travestir Indicativo
Es que era de esperarse, si se atrevió a conjugar ese verbo con los estudiantes de una escuela intermedia en un barrio del Bronx donde la mitad de la población es talibangélica y la otra mitad, analfabeta, y muy dados a estar de acuerdo con cualquier idiota que les convenza sobre lo que sea. Les comen el coco con la verborrea que tienen esos lideres de barrio, y que andan buscando treparse políticamente. Esas panzas politiqueras usan cualquier tema o asunto controvertido, y le sacan provecho sin tener ni la mínima gama de principios excepto el hacer mucho dinero, salir en los periódicos o abanderarse con asuntos de tan poca importancia como fue la pelea por las banderas y el nacionalismo insulso de aquellas maricas que no se daban cuenta que el nacionalismo a la hora de la hora los usa y lo desusa sin miramientos cuando los necesita para luego, si los necesitan, pedir perdón y auto-culparse a lo Fidel, quien se achacó la culpa de la persecución y torturas de los gais en Cuba sin que nadie se lo saque en cara o lo ajusticie. Ajusticiar es lo que deben hacer con ese montón de gais pseudo-nacionalistas que no quieren aceptar el que andar defendiendo sus naciones camina sobre terreno delicado porque cuando menos se lo esperan los hetero-nacionalistas les van a dar una pata’ por el culo, como hizo Hitler con los homos en Alemania cuando estos hasta una escuadra militar formaron y luego los mandó a matar según Visconti, ¿fue Visconti?, en aquella película, Los Malditos, muy de moda por los setenta en los cines de Tribeca y SoHo, vista por medio mundo, pronosticando lo que hicieron los estadistas en la isla de los espantos, después que llegaron al poder con los votos de la mayoría de los gays. Una vez llegaron al poder, le dejaron las plataformas y las tribunas a los reverendos de pandereta, aumentando la tasa de asesinatos de hombres y mujeres liberados, parecido a lo que le pasó a los dos que dejaron de ser amigos y compañeros docentes, después de una decirle a la otra que ella venia de una colonia y la otra restallarle, y tú de una dictadura cuyo dinero venia de los prostíbulos y casinos en tu capital, y la otra decirle, que eran unos sometidos, y aquella contestarle, ustedes unos ilusos al creerse que tenían un país desarrollado con un dictador de pacotilla y una negrada de población que se creía blanca, loca trapera, contestó la que se vestía, y a mucha honra, la que travestía, todavía traviste, y usó el verbo travestir, después de aquella garata frente de los padres,y se puso a conjugar, yo travisto, tú travistes, él traviste, nosotros travestimos, vosotros trasvisteis, sin fijarse si estaba en lo correcto; antes de ambos ser botados de sus respectivos trabajos, por hablar de asuntos gais y no por haber discutido sobre luchas nacionales, xenofobia, racismo, sub-desarrollo, desarrollo, autonomías, globalización o el travestir de los países, culturas y mucho menos, conjugar verbos que pocos usan.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Grunge is Retro
It was reported in today’s Puerto Rican paper, El Nuevo Día, that young people in the islands of extremely handsome old men (nothing personal here), manipulating mamas and descendants of Kufferstein are discovering and recycling grunge: the mismatch fashion popular during the eighties. What a shock! And this early in the morning, while viewing the turquoise waters of the sea, the abstract brushes of diverse pastels in the sky and the rising sun, I had to be reminded of my multi-generational separation from those making fashion statements.
What am I to do with such news? To be forced to reflect upon aging and fashion currents is not easy, particularly when I was considered a leading force in creating fashionable trends in the very hot town facing the Caribbean Sea; that place there over there where I saw my identity crushed by the desire to eat forbidden fruits.
When grunge was in vogue I was already a middle-age man, and now grunge is retro. Since self restraint and propriety were always my guiding social pillars, I will face the disturbing news with dignity and controlled judgment. And controlled judgment will be very much needed and required when facing those youngsters wearing flannel shirts, boots, fatigue pants and whatever those “quincalleros” wear in very hot weather.
Yes, quincalleros as in quincallas, those stores quite popular before the mega ones took over the shopping centers of the world. In quincallas everything was sold: from clothes to Lladró-like figurines. And everything on top of everything is what the grungies wear. They remind me of those ladies in the Upper West side of New York who seem to choose their clothing by simply walking into their closets and letting shirts, skirts, shawls, lots of jewelry fall onto them. Take the 104 bus, the Broadway and Barbara local, and you will see lots of overly dressed matrons. If the NYC Upper West Side ladies look like Christmas Trees, the grungies look like left over woods-men.
Fashion slaves have existed for a very long time but to wear so much clothing in the Caribbean has to be a real sacrifice. Not for me. As I face from my balcony the turquoise waters of the sea, I conclude that ways must be found to regenerate myself. I will look for my “pra pra” hats, espadrilles, linen pants and shirts, and refuse to be out of fashion.
What am I to do with such news? To be forced to reflect upon aging and fashion currents is not easy, particularly when I was considered a leading force in creating fashionable trends in the very hot town facing the Caribbean Sea; that place there over there where I saw my identity crushed by the desire to eat forbidden fruits.
When grunge was in vogue I was already a middle-age man, and now grunge is retro. Since self restraint and propriety were always my guiding social pillars, I will face the disturbing news with dignity and controlled judgment. And controlled judgment will be very much needed and required when facing those youngsters wearing flannel shirts, boots, fatigue pants and whatever those “quincalleros” wear in very hot weather.
Yes, quincalleros as in quincallas, those stores quite popular before the mega ones took over the shopping centers of the world. In quincallas everything was sold: from clothes to Lladró-like figurines. And everything on top of everything is what the grungies wear. They remind me of those ladies in the Upper West side of New York who seem to choose their clothing by simply walking into their closets and letting shirts, skirts, shawls, lots of jewelry fall onto them. Take the 104 bus, the Broadway and Barbara local, and you will see lots of overly dressed matrons. If the NYC Upper West Side ladies look like Christmas Trees, the grungies look like left over woods-men.
Fashion slaves have existed for a very long time but to wear so much clothing in the Caribbean has to be a real sacrifice. Not for me. As I face from my balcony the turquoise waters of the sea, I conclude that ways must be found to regenerate myself. I will look for my “pra pra” hats, espadrilles, linen pants and shirts, and refuse to be out of fashion.
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