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20 POEMS OF HUMAN CONDUCT AND A POET OF MULTITUDES 20 POEMAS DE CONDUCTA HUMANA Y UN POETA DE MULTITUDES
Eric Chaet
Reflections upon the world I have to live
and my role in it I often feel I need a boss to tell me what to do
but there's no one I know of I'd obey- that's
why I struggled so long to get free &
now the only boss I have is me.
It has become clear to me, yet again, that there are no proper channels,
thru which to get my work to its audience. So I put together some of my shortest poems, for the convenient use of those few
of you who have shown the most enthusiasm, who are still alive. I'd tell you not to feel obliged, but, of course, you know
you're not obliged. I'd be obliged. Eric Chaet
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Reflexiones sobre el mundo
en el que tengo que vivir y mi papel en él
A menudo siento que necesito un jefe que me diga qué hacer pero no hay nadie que
yo conozca a quien obedecería- por eso luché tanto tiempo para liberarme y ahora el único jefe
que tengo soy yo. Me
ha quedado claro, una vez más, que no hay canales adecuados para llevar mi trabajo a la audiencia. Así
que reuní algunos de mis poemas más cortos, para el uso conveniente de aquellos pocos de ustedes que han mostrado
más entusiasmo, que aún están vivos. Te diría que no te sientas obligado, pero, por supuesto,
sabes que no estás obligado. Me sentiría obligado. Eric Chaet
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A brief but very rich story
Ten years have passed of virtual
friendship with Eric Chaed during which the theme of his literary contributions has been his critical vision of the human
condition, not as a casual witness but as an integral part of human events, and how he, from the very heart of the multitudes,
sees them act in all the scenarios of human conflict, criticizes and condemns , rebukes and accuses them of indifference to
their own condition. A man of all seasons, he comes from the masses of ancient Greece and from the citizens
of the Roman empire, and was there in India, with Ghandi, seeing him walk the land. Having placed myself
as a traveling companion of many writers in the world, each one is unique from my personal point of view situated in a specific
place and dedicated to a specific cause. Not so with Eric. His trajectory is that of a citizen of the masses,
a walker of plains and solitudes, an ascetic who has made the streets his place of meditation, who works like everyone else
but who rises up and rebels against the hand that feeds him when he can no longer accept its tyranny. He asks his peers to
do the same. He has earned the right to do so as well as the right to become its judge and deliver his verdict. Eric, someone
in the crowd, with the privilege of being different. Joseph Berolo
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Una historia breve pero my rica
Diez años han transcurrido
de amistad virtual con Eric Chaed durante los cuales la temática de sus aportes literarios ha sido su visión
crítica sobre la condición humana, no como un testigo casual sino como parte integral del
acontecer humano, y cómo él, desde el seno mismo de las multitudes, las ve actuar en todos
los escenarios de la contienda humana las critica y condena, increpa y acusa de indiferencia a su propia condición.
Un hombre de todas las estaciones, viene de la gente de la antigua Grecia, citizen del Imperio romano
y estaba allí , en India, con Ghandi viéndolo caminar la tierra. Habiéndome colocado yo mismo
como compañero de andanza de muchos escritores del mundo, cada uno especial , desde mi punto de vista personal que
me hace verlo y sentirlo en un lugar específico y dedicado a una causa especifica. No
así con Eric. Él, su trayectoria es un ciudadano de las masas, un caminante de llanuras y soledades, un
asceta que ha hecho de las calles su lugar de meditación, un ser que trabaja como todos pero que se alza y se rebela contra
la mano que lo alimenta cuando ya no puede ni quiere aceptar más su tiranía; igual le pide a sus
congéneres que hagan. Él se ha ganado el derecho a hacerlo asi como el de constituirse en su juez y entregar
su veredicto. Eric,alguien más entre la multitud, con el privilegio de ser diferente. Joseph Berolo
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Boss I often feel I need a boss to tell me
what to do but there's no one I know of I'd obey- that's why I struggled so long to get free
& now the only boss I have is me. The good & wise conceal
themselves too well- amidst applause,
fraud & might prevail (&
the merely clever ride their tail)- &
now the only boss I have is me.
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Jefe A menudo siento que necesito un jefe que me diga qué hacer pero no hay nadie que yo conozca a quien obedecería- por eso luché tanto tiempo para liberarme y ahora el único jefe que tengo soy yo. Los buenos y sabios se ocultan demasiado bien- en medio de los aplausos, el fraude y la fuerza prevalecen (y los meramente astutos se aprovechan de ellos)- y ahora el único jefe que tengo soy yo.
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Those I'd Help Those I'd help will
take no help from me & give me
none- they don't believe
that they need help they're proud & deluded they need help &
give me none- & I need help.
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Aquellos a quienes ayudaría No aceptarán mi ayuday no me darán ninguna- no creen que
necesiten ayuda son orgullosos y engañados necesitan ayuda y no me dan ninguna- y yo necesito ayuda.
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Domain
& Range but my range is a line whose other end is undefined. My
domain is a line I plod on back & forth but my range is a surface tilting left, right, up, down, diagonally, curving now chaotic waves & storms, now rhythmic
& harmonious. My domain is the surface my neighbors
& rivals, predators, parasites, & those who care for me briefly or for years or more see, & believe that's me- but beneath the surface I'm surging: molten, rare, dense, magnetic, more or less- even I don't know how deep I go. People treat one another as tho they're their domains- but I see thru their shells-&, til I die,
I'm ranging. My domain is a lonely, daunted point
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Dominio y Rango Mi
dominio es un punto solitario y atemorizado pero
mi rango es una línea cuyo otro extremo es indefinido. Mi dominio es una línea Voy y vengo pero
mi alcance es una superficie inclinándose
a la izquierda, a la derecha, hacia arriba, hacia abajo, en diagonal, curvándose ahora con olas y tormentas caóticas, ahora rítmicas y armoniosas. Mi dominio es la superficie
que mis vecinos y rivales, depredadores,
parásitos, y aquellos que se preocupan por mí brevemente o durante años o más ven, y creen que eso soy yo- pero bajo la superficie estoy surgiendo: fundido, raro, denso, magnético, más o menos- ni siquiera yo sé cuán profundo llego. La gente se trata entre sí como si fueran sus dominios- pero yo veo a través de sus caparazones-y,
hasta que muera, estoy explorando.
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Argumentative People had me convinced most of my life that I was argumentative- because I refused to validate the hypocritical cover stories of tyrants great & not so great & of everyone who had adapted to roles in the destructive & unjust hierarchy- or to compete for the privilege of being paid off & left alone.
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Argumentativo
La gente me había convencido la mayor parte de mi vida de que era argumentativo- porque me negaba a validar las historias hipócritas de cobertura de tiranos grandes y no tan grandes y de todos los que se habían adaptado
a roles en la jerarquía
destructiva e injusta- o
a competir por el privilegio de
ser sobornados y dejados en paz.
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Gandhi & Chance Gandhi weighed less than 100 pounds when I was born wore garment round lower vitals of cloth he'd spun while thinking how to move people thru slag of inert idea & outrage with song & firm step along dusty roads in hot suns taking chances among desperate unknowns. By chance I found out about him & delved into his doings 3rd floor downtown Chicago Public Library traffic blaring thru Prudential Building shadow under flocks of Grant Park pigeons years after his death & still his focused life drives me tho he's dead & Woody Guthrie's dead & several unknowns of the species I've encountered who've died many times since myself & live to testify.
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Gandhi y el azar Gandhi pesaba menos de 100 libras cuando nací se cubría
su cuerpo con tela que había hilado mientras pensaba cómo mover a la gente a través
de la escoria de ideas inerte e indignación, con canto y paso firme a lo largo de caminos polvorientos
bajo soles ardientes arriesgandose entre desconocidos desesperados. Por casualidad me enteré de él y de la profundidad de sus actos años
después de su muerte. en la biblioteca pública del centro de Chicago, tercer piso con tráfico
a todo volumen a través de la sombra del Prudential Building bajo bandadas de palomas de Grant Park. Su vida enfocada
me impulsa todavía aunque él está muerto y Woody Guthrie está muerto & varias
incógnitas de la especie. me he encontrado que han muerto muchas veces desde que yo vivo para
testificar.
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A Man Swerves His Car A man swerves his car as tho to hit me where I stand on road shoulder torn between thumbing a ride east from Kansas
City & watching
a crew lay bricks on a newly-erected wood frame. At the last moment, he turns aside. He wants me more aware of death & of himself & myself if I'm going to stand in midst of world that's driving him back & forth along highways.
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Un hombre desvía
su coche Un hombre
desvía su auto para atropellarme donde estoy al borde de la carretera indeciso entre elegir un viaje hacia el este desde Kansas City o mirar a un equipo colocar ladrillos en un marco de madera recién
construido. En el último momento se da vuelta. Él me quiere más consciente de la muerte y de él y de mí
mismo. si voy a estar
en medio del mundo... eso
lo lleva de un lado a otro por las carreteras.
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Delegation
A bunch
of sparrows burst across
my path & all over
a bush as I was walking
to work wearing their
cruddy feathers again- I
don't guess they ever change. Moved
so fast, I never counted them- talked,
sang-& were off again- before
I could decipher what
language they were negotiating in- all
over the blue & clouds & sun & as nowhere to be seen as seeds before I realized they'd visited me!
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Delegación Un grupo de gorriones se cruzó mi camino mientras andaba al trabajo dejando caer de nuevo sus plumas desgastadas- supongo que nunca cambian. Se movieron tan rápido que nunca los conté- hablaron, cantaron-y se fueron de nuevo- antes de que pudiera descifrar en qué idioma estaban negociando- por todo el azul y las nubes y el sol y tan invisibles como semillas antes de darme cuenta de que me habían
visitado.
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Tide Please don't try to please me. I don't want to please you. I'm so tired of trying to please everyone. I look up-they're dissatisfied again. Please don't try to entertain me. I don't want to entertain you. I'm so tired of performing. Just don't get up & go away when nothing's
happening. Something
momentous will happen momentarily. I
can't describe it. I
have no words for it. I
don't know what flavor, pitch, or intensity it'll take. I have hopes-but I don't want to speak of them. Let's wait, & talk-after the tide turns.
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Marea Por favor, no intentes complacerme. No quiero complacerte. Estoy tan cansado de intentar
complacer a todos. Miro
hacia arriba-están insatisfechos de nuevo. Por favor, no trates de entretenerme. No quiero entretenerte. Estoy tan cansado de actuar. Solo no te levantes y te vayas
cuando no está pasando nada. Algo trascendental sucederá en un momento. No puedo
describirlo. No
tengo palabras para describirlo. No sé qué sabor, tono o intensidad tendrá. Tengo esperanzas-pero no quiero hablar de ellas. Esperemos y hablemos-después
de que cambie la marea.
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Doorman Good morning, sir, good morning, ma'am. Yes, I'm wearing a different uniform, different gloves, different hat. I've cleaned the glass of the door- I discovered a new solvent. Isn't it glorious, how the glass is so thoroughly transparent, yet
transmitting sparkle from the Sun? Yes,
you're right, it's a different door, different
frame, different hinges, too. Notice,
in fact, that the building into which
I'm ushering you is a different building
than the one you routinely enter.
Please, take a good look at your reflection in the glass- that's the last you'll see of it. It won't survive the walk across the lobby. Someone else will step out of the elevator on a different floor, different company, different industry, different agenda, different obstacles, different opportunities, different priorities, different purpose.
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Portero Buenos días, señor, buenos días,
señora. Sí,
llevo un uniforme diferente, guantes diferentes, un sombrero diferente. He limpiado el cristal de la puerta- descubrí un nuevo disolvente. ¿No es glorioso cómo el vidrio es tan completamente
transparente, pero aún así transmite el brillo del sol? Sí, tienes razón, es una puerta diferente, con un marco diferente,
con bisagras diferentes también. Anote, de hecho, que el edificio al que te estoy conduciendo es un edificio diferente al que sueles entrar. Por favor, observa bien tu reflejo en el cristal-es lo último que verás de él. No sobrevivirá el paseo por el vestíbulo. Alguien más saldrá del ascensor en un piso diferente, en una empresa diferente, en una industria diferente, con una agenda diferente, con obstáculos diferentes, con oportunidades
diferentes, con prioridades
diferentes, con un propósito diferente.
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Obscure Romans Which of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire when Rome was at war with the world & ruled by a paranoid elite that imagined itself entitled to the fruit of
others' efforts never
established reputations?- &
so were lost to history as
trees' buds, a season's seeds, stems foliage & canopy grains of wheat & barley, olives, grapes, cotton, wool generations of cattle-milk & beef- maybe feeling abandoned to cruel Fate thru civil wars or long or brief lives of grim
toil coping til they
couldn't cope any more- or
fiercely maintaining a constantly attacked integrity & delivering compassion & skillful service among the few aware enough at least of who they were & capable of accepting from them what they were capable of delivering?
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Romanos Oscuros ¿Cuál de los habitantes del Imperio
Romano, cuando Roma
estaba en guerra con el mundo y
gobernada por una élite paranoica que se imaginaba con derecho a los frutos de los esfuerzos ajenos, nunca estableció reputaciones?- y así se perdieron en la historia como los brotes de los árboles, las semillas
de una estación, los tallos el
follaje y el dosel granos
de trigo y cebada, aceitunas, uvas, algodón, lana generaciones de ganado-leche y carne- quizás sintiéndose abandonados a un destino cruel a través de guerras civiles o vidas largas
o breves de dura labranza sobreviviendo
hasta que ya no pudieron más- o manteniendo ferozmente una integridad constantemente atacada y brindando compasión y servicio hábil entre los pocos lo suficientemente conscientes
al menos de quiénes
eran y capaces de aceptar
de ellos lo que eran
capaces de ofrecer?
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I Live In an Old House I
live in an old house not
as well made as it might have been but
I'm grateful for the shelter. Before
I have to surrender it for
lack of breath or ability to pay taxes & before it falls in on me I work at shoring it up improve what I can- foundation, frame, shell, plumbing, wiring- I'm clumsy, impatient, & ignorant!- & struggle within it to create something valuable that will outlast me & this so-called civilization, crumbling all around.
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Vivo en una casa antigua Vivo en una casa antigua no tan bien construida como podría haber
sido pero estoy agradecido
por el refugio. Antes
de tener que rendirme por
falta de aliento o capacidad para pagar impuestos y antes de que se me caiga encima trabajo en reforzarlo mejorar lo que puedo- fundación, estructura, envoltura, fontanería, cableado- ¡Soy torpe, impaciente e ignorante!- y lucho dentro de él para crear algo valioso que me sobreviva y a esta llamada civilización, desmoronándose a mi alrededor.
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Empathy I dreamed of neighbors only slightly known secretly suffering their hopes thwarted- that I could do nothing for them & couldn't even prevent myself from being one of them.
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Empatia Sueño con vecinos Levement conocidos Sufriendo en secreto Sus sueños truncados- Que no puedo hacer nada por ellos Ni siquieras puedo evitar Ser uno de ellos
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My Trial I'm preparing for the trial of the rest of my
life. I'm accused of
wasting my time & talents colluding
with evil, rolling with injustice's punches rationalizing, adapting, drifting along by reflex action. I know of no defense attorney who can help me. The laws are as different from justice as red is from green, or dissonance from harmony. No judge nor jury can be expected to sympathize nor to understand the facts, precedents, or context. Whether I convince anyone of anything or not whether the laws or even the State's name changes the trial for which I'm always diligently preparing has already begun-& will continue as long
as I live.
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Mi
Juicio Me estoy preparando para el juicio del resto de mi vida. Me acusan de desperdiciar mi tiempo y talentos,
coludido con el mal, dejándome
llevar por los golpes de la injusticia, racionalizando, adaptándome, dejándome llevar por el reflejo. No conozco a ningún abogado defensor que pueda ayudarme. Las leyes son tan diferentes de la justicia como
el rojo lo es del verde,
o la disonancia de la armonía. Ningún juez ni jurado puede esperarse que simpatice ni que entienda los hechos, precedentes o contexto. Ya sea que convenza a alguien de algo o no, ya
sea que las leyes o incluso el nombre del Estado cambien, el juicio para el cual siempre me estoy preparando diligentemente ya ha comenzado-y continuará mientras viva.
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Patience Emerges Just maybe tho the prospect's bleak what I've done before I stopped exhausted will yet provide me what I need to resume & pick up speed & finish what I started.
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Surge la Paciencia Quizás, aunque
el panorama sea desalentador, lo que he hecho antes de detenerme exhausto aún me proporcionará lo que necesito para reanudar y acelerar el paso y terminar lo que comencé.
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They Won't Forgive Me There are people who are never going to forgive
me because I refused
a position that would
have paid me enough to
stay out of obvious trouble & need a few decades that
they arranged for me to occupy or
quit it the first time someone
only normally crazy & evil with
authority over me required
me to sacrifice everything & everyone else to maintain the position.
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No Me Perdonarán Hay personas que nunca me van
a perdonar porque
rechacé un puesto que
me habría pagado lo suficiente para mantenerme alejado de problemas evidentes y necesidades durante unas pocas décadas que ellos organizaron para que
yo ocupara lo
dejé la primera vez que alguien solo normalmente loco y malvado con autoridad sobre mí me exigió sacrificar todo y a todos los demás para mantener el puesto.
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Like Animals There are people who live like mice & rabbits spending most of their time arranging & sleeping in burrows hidden away from the surface's dangers- I'm a lot like that, myself. And there are people who live like ranging predators sharks, lions, tigers, eagles, hawks, snakes competing with one another & exerting all
their energy no savings
accounts, investments, pensions eat
someone or die- &
I'm a lot like them, too. There
are people, too, like domesticated animals- whether ruling hogs, chickens, dog-sled team leaders or those they lord over in yards, barns, pens, harnesses- & I've been trained to live among others- dominant & dominated-too.
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Como Animales Hay personas que viven
como ratones y conejos, pasando la mayor parte de su tiempo organizando y durmiendo en madrigueras, escondidos de los peligros de la superficie- yo soy mucho
así, también. Y hay personas que viven como depredadores errantes tiburones, leones, tigres, águilas, halcones, serpientes compitiendo entre sí y ejerciendo toda su energía sin
cuentas de ahorros, inversiones, pensiones comer a alguien o morir- y yo soy mucho como ellos, también. También hay personas, como animales
domesticados- ya
sea gobernando cerdos, gallinas, líderes de equipos de trineo tirados por perros o
aquellos a quienes dominan en patios, graneros, corrales, arneses- y he sido entrenado
para vivir entre otros- dominantes y dominados-también.
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Thinking About the Future I have to break free to think
about & affect the future today, tomorrow, the rest of the week, month, year the rest of my life, & beyond- for all those who strive with pure heart disciplining themselves so as
not to harm others &
yet, to develop & contribute what they're capable of. I have to get free of the petty expectations others
lay on me &
that I've internalized & lay on myself & also of the grand delusions- & think about & affect the future.
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Pensando en el Futuro Tengo que liberarme para pensar en el futuro
y afectarlo hoy, mañana,
el resto de la semana, mes, año el resto de mi vida, y más allá- por todos aquellos que luchan con un corazón puro disciplinándose para no hacer daño
a los demás y,
sin embargo, desarrollarse y contribuir con lo que son capaces, Tengo que liberarme de las expectativas mezquinas que otros ponen sobre mí y que he internalizado y puesto sobre mí
mismo y también
de las grandes ilusiones- y
pensar en el futuro y afectarlo. Contexto:
Tengo que liberarme de las pequeñas expectativas que otros ponen sobre mí y que he internalizado y puesto sobre mí mismo y también de las grandes ilusiones- y pensar en y afectar el futuro. .
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Ostracism From Athens, galleys propelled by 3 tiers of
slaves with oars carried
red & black vases with handles filled
with olive oil & wine &
heavily-armed foot-soldiers & orators who'd studied sophistry who proclaimed to citizens, & women, slaves, & children of islands & coastal cities all over the
Mediterranean Sea how
it would be. Each
year, 600 oligarchs casting ballots (they used shards of broken vases) voted to ostracize & expel the Athenian who most upset efficient execution of their exploitation plans.
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Ostracismo Desde Atenas,
galeras impulsadas por 3 filas de esclavos con remos llevaban jarrones rojos y negros con asas llenos de aceite de oliva y vino y soldados de infantería fuertemente armados y oradores que
habían estudiado sofística que proclamaban a los ciudadanos, y mujeres, esclavos y niños de islas y ciudades costeras de todo el Mar Mediterráneo cómo sería. Cada año, 600 oligarcas emitían
sus votos (ellos usaban
fragmentos de jarrones rotos) para
ostracizar y expulsar al ateniense que más perturbaba la ejecución eficiente de sus planes de explotación.
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What Is My Role in the World
Going To Be? What is
my role in the world going to be -til my death, from the moment it becomes up to me? How can I best serve the ones who need me?How can my work become
how I'll be free? How
can I do what I think I should dowhen belief it's impossible is near unanimity? What will I offer, & how frame the termsso those who'd reciprocate
will learn - & agree? Who,
of the billions, will I work with, & how?What will we do that's never happened til now?
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¿Cuál será
mi papel en el mundo? ¿Cuál
va a ser mi papel en el mundo - hasta mi muerte, desde el momento en que dependa de mí? ¿Cómo
puedo servir mejor a los que me necesitan? ¿Cómo puede mi trabajo convertirse en la forma en que seré libre? ¿Cómo
puedo hacer lo que creo que debo hacer cuando la creencia de que es imposible es casi unánime?
¿Qué ofreceré, y cómo enmarcaré los términos para que aquellos
que correspondan aprendan - y estén de acuerdo? ¿Con quién, de los
miles de millones, trabajaré, y cómo? ¿Qué haremos que nunca haya sucedido hasta ahora?
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Continues-- Other cycles - Continúa
Otros ciclos
I will live, whenever I am able. Even if I would, I'm not powerful enough to tyrannize but I insist on becoming who I might become --- an individual --- with some genius I must nurture
--- retarded, too ---
from birth, misunderstandings, mistakes --- a more convenient target than the reigning tyrants for the resentful among the servile & the mandarins, too. For some, I'm too much like the mandarins --- for some, I'm too much like the ones the mandarins feel they have the right to get paid for ruling. Tyrants tyrannize everyone --- mandarins, plebeians,
me --- the ecstatic
exercise of advantage --- the imperium. I have enemies of every persuasion, every coalition playing parts in & excluded from every organization --- anyone hurt --- nearly everyone --- looking for
revenge. My recurrent
troubles are universal --- not
just of this or that profession, family, neighbor, nation --- every transaction is a deadly contest for control --- more losses to cut --- or endure --- whatever might be gained. Whatever I have achieved, or will achieve will serve strangers I'll probably never know
--- as I've been served
by those living &
by those who have lived as I have lived when I managed to gather the sense & courage --- & as I will live, whenever I am able.
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Viviré cuando me sea posible Incluso si lo hiciera, no soy lo suficientemente
poderoso como para tiranizar pero
insisto en convertirme en quien podría llegar a ser --- un individuo --- con algo de genio que debo nutrir --- retrasado también --- de nacimiento, malentendidos,
errores --- un objetivo
más conveniente que los tiranos reinantes para los resentidos entre los serviles y los mandarines también. Para algunos, me parezco demasiado a los mandarines
--- sienten que tienen
derecho a recibir un pago por gobernar. Los tiranos tiranizan a todos --- mandarines, plebeyos, yo --- el ejercicio extático de la ventaja: el imperium. Tengo enemigos de todas las tendencias, de todas
las coaliciones. desempeñando
papeles dentro y excluidos de cada organización --- alguien herido --- casi todos --- buscando venganza. Mis problemas recurrentes son universales --- no sólo de tal o cual profesión,
familia, vecino, nación --- cada
transacción es una lucha mortal por el control --- más pérdidas que recortar (o soportar) lo que sea que se pueda ganar. Todo lo que he logrado o lograré servirá a extraños que probablemente
nunca conoceré --- como
me han servido los que viven y
por los que han vivido como yo he vivido cuando logré reunir el sentido y el coraje --- Y como viviré, siempre que pueda.
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Recently written, Politics the issues viewed in a previous article,
this one questioning the validity issues that make men persist in their quest to survive and dominate the world. Is the
one with the most assets & cash the most successful? Or the one who controls the most territory, troops, & firepower. Or
is the most successful the one who contributes the most? The most of what? to whom? " I'm talking
about right now, & I'm talking about all history." Eric writes. " History is piecemeal & unreliable
---what preceded history, even more so --- & the future, in which we must risk everything, the most. I'm talking
about what's ephemeral & what lasts beyond a mood, or even a lifetime, or a polity or a set of beliefs & behaviors.
Until almost this moment, I was striving to be a success --- to gain a lot of what I desired --- If I don't compete,
I'll be others' meat --- that's clear. But what about me? --- what shall I do? & why? The editor POLITICS by Eric ChaetIs the one with the most assets & cash the most successful? Or the one who controls
the most territory, troops, & firepower? Or maybe the leader of the prevailing coalition --- grudgingly supported
by the parties' other contenders?Or the one who has gained the most since starting --- whether starting with a lot, a
little, nothing or inherited debt, obligations --- despised, persecuted, used --- by parents, siblings, neighbors,
& microbes or by genes, mates, posers, off-spring, local tyrants --- by current oppressors or effects of past
oppressions --- by legislation & agents of government or of giant corporations funded by government contracts & the long-time habits of shoppers --- programmed to be others' factotum or where --- who manages not to be
obliterated day after day & year after year --- childhood, adolescence, maturity, old age --- alien were
born among contending competitors --- no property, troops, firepower, money, credit or useful connections --- or
understanding of the roles thrust into by birth in such a species, body, place, & time?Or is the most successful
the one who contributes the most? The most of what? to whom? The poor, or the affluent & dominating ones or
group? The deserving, the undeserving? Who deserves what, why? Who gets what they deserve, and who doesn't? Do you get what you earn?Entrepreneurs, managers, producers, marketers, distributors provide what they provide ---
for a price. Public officials, & kind relatives & neighbors & managers of the assets of giant philanthropies dole out benefits --- but the price is time & attention to what they require whether officially or even unaware that could be spent healing from brief or long attacks of anxiety, or setbacks --- or put to use versus inertia,
developing capacities or initiating & sustaining projects & campaigns --- all the while maintaining what
you need to survive the current set of impositions.In China, the USA, west and East Europe, & elsewhere, too governments,
whether of one party, many, or two extract resources, in various amounts, from citizens & bestow benefits to
those with various needs & wants willing & able to comply with regulations they resent --- or administer. I'm talking about right now, & I'm talking about all history.History is piecemeal & unreliable --- what preceded
history, even more so --- & the future, in which we must risk everything, the most.I'm talking about lions &
their prey the species & specimens surviving so far & those gone, of which we never were aware --- animals,
plants, fungi, bacteria, viruses financiers, bankers, producers, marketers, consumers.I'm talking about what you really
need & what you'd prefer, to not having it --- that which may delight or disappoint you that which may
liberate & empower you & that which may weaken & defeat you.I'm talking about what is advertised --- costly
campaigns engaging the attention of dozens & hundreds & thousands at consoles --- & what is learned
by word of mouth --- or study --- or what one single person finally concludes --- whether foolishly or shrewd ---
or maybe wise, I hope.I'm talking about what's ephemeral & what lasts beyond a mood, or even a lifetime, or a polity or a set of beliefs & behaviors.The bacteria that multiply like crazy in someone's lungs --- then die with their
victim --- are they successful? --- the ones that proliferated, or the last cohort --- or none? Is their frenetic
metabolism as pointless as some lifeless galaxy that forms then, after some enormous while, dissipates? Or
do galaxies compete for power among galaxies --- or to achieve life & consciousness, however temporary?What is the
meaning of the irresistible desire for meaning? What is the meaning of the struggle to survive? No one survives,
that I know of --- tho some have spoken or written of immortality --- but they're deluded, I think or speaking
of some idea or infrastructure we may create whether something good, true, noble --- or otherwise --- that doesn't
decay & dissipate with our carcasses --- or some speck, migrating through us, we never control & rarely
manage to capture attention to invest in.What is the meaning of the struggle for supremacy? Or, briefly, experiencing
supremacy? Or of the feeling of being defeated yet realizing you're still alive --- & you drag yourself
out of disturbing dreams or embrace the day as an opportunity for reason & focused, strategic action --- if
you can achieve it.Anyone who takes me for a successful person is deluded.Until almost this moment, I was striving to be a
success --- to gain a lot of what I desired --- even to gain more assets & power than those who were trying
to take advantage of me --- even before I was aware that they existed --- or how they calculated what they do.If
I don't compete, I'll be others' meat --- that's clear. But you can have most of what we're taught to struggle for. If you get it, I don't think you've succeeded --- even if, for some brief time, you rule. But what about me? ---
what shall I do? & why?
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Escrito recientemente, Política sobre los temas vistos
en un artículo anterior , este cuestiona la validez de los temas que hacen que el
hombre prevalezca en su búsqueda por sobrevivir y dominar el mundo. ¿Es el que tiene más activos y efectivo
el más exitoso? Oel que controla la mayor cantidad de territorio, tropas y potencia de fuego. ¿O es el más exitoso el
que más contribuye? ¿La mayor parte de qué? ¿A quien? "Estoy hablando del presente y de toda
la historia". Eric escribe. " La historia es fragmentaria y poco confiable ---lo que precedió a la historia,
aún más-- y el futuro, en el que debemos arriesgarlo todo, más. Estoy hablando de lo que es efímero
y lo que dura más allá de un estado de ánimo, o incluso de un vida, o una política o un conjunto
de creencias y comportamientos. Hasta casi este momento, me esforzaba por tener éxito --- para obtener mucho de lo
que deseaba --- Si no compito, no Seré carne de otros --- eso está claro. Pero ¿y yo? --- ¿qué
debo hacer? y ¿por qué? El Editor POLÍTICA por Eric Chaet¿Es el que tiene más activos y efectivo el más exitoso? ¿O el
que controla la mayor cantidad de territorio, tropas y potencia de fuego? O tal vez el líder de la coalición
predominante --- apoyado a regañadientes por los demás contendientes de los partidos?O el que más ha ganado desde que empezó ---ya sea empezando con mucho, poco, nada o deuda heredada, obligaciones --- despreciado, perseguido, usado --- por padres, hermanos, vecinos y microbios o por genes, parejas, impostores, descendencia,
tiranos locales... por
opresores actuales o efectos de opresiones pasadas --- por la legislación y agentes del gobierno o de corporaciones gigantes financiadas por contratos gubernamentales y los viejos hábitos de los compradores
--- programados
para ser factótum a costa de otros --- quien logra no ser borrado día tras día y año tras año --- en la infancia, la adolescencia, la madurez, la vejez --- alienígena que nació entre competidores
en competencia --- Sin
propiedad, tropas, potencia de fuego, dinero, crédito. o conexiones útiles --- o comprensión de los roles asumidos por haber nacido en tal especie, cuerpo, lugar y tiempo? ¿O es el más exitoso el que más
contribuye? ¿La mayor parte
de qué? ¿A quien? ¿Los
pobres, o los ricos y dominantes? ¿Los
merecedores, los no merecedores? ¿Quién
merece qué y por qué? ¿Quién
recibe lo que se merece y quién no? ¿Recibes
lo que ganas? Emprendedores, directivos, productores, comercializadores, distribuidores facilitanb lo que ofrecen, por un precio. Funcionarios públicos y amables familiares
y vecinos. y administradores
de los activos de gigantescas filantropías reparten beneficios --- pero el tiempo es oro y requiere atención ya que sufre vde ataques de ansiedad y contratiempos --- o poner en práctica frente a la inercia, desarrollando capacidades para iniciar y sostener proyectos y campañas
--- todo el tiempo manteniendo
lo que necesita para sobrevivir
al actual conjunto de imposiciones. En China, EE. UU., Europa occidental y oriental y también
en otros lugares , los gobiernos,
ya sean de un solo partido, de de muchos extraen recursos, en diversas cantidades, de los ciudadanos y otorgan beneficios a aquellos con diversas necesidades y deseos dispuestos y capaces de cumplir con las regulaciones.. Me refiero al presente y me refiero a toda la historia. La
historia es fragmentaria y poco confiable --- lo que precedió a la historia, más aún --- y el futuro, en el que debemos arriesgarlo todo, al máximo. Estoy hablando de leones y sus presas. las especies y especímenes que han sobrevivido hasta
ahora Y aquellos que se han
ido, de los cuales nunca fuimos conscientes --- animales, plantas, hongos, bacterias, virus. financieros, banqueros, productores, comercializadores, consumidores. Estoy
hablando de lo que realmente necesitas. & lo que preferirías, a no tenerlo --- aquello que puede deleitarte o decepcionarte aquello que puede liberarte y empoderarte y aquello que pueda debilitarte y derrotarte. Me refiero a lo que
se anuncia --- campañas
costosas que atraen la atención de
docenas, cientos y miles en gente --- &
lo que se aprende de boca en boca --- o estudiando --- o lo que finalmente concluye una sola persona --- ya sea tonto o astuto... o tal vez sabio, espero. Estoy hablando de lo que es efímero y lo que dura. más allá de un estado de ánimo, o incluso
de una vida, o de una política o
un conjunto de creencias y comportamientos. Las bacterias que se multiplican como locas en los pulmones de alguien
--- luego mueren con su víctima.
¿Tienen éxito? --- los
que proliferaron, o la última cohorte, ¿o ninguna? ¿Es su metabolismo frenético tan inútil, como una galaxia sin vida que se forma luego, después de un tiempo enorme, se disipa? ¿O las galaxias compiten por el poder entre galaxias? ¿O para alcanzar la vida y la conciencia,
aunque sea temporalmente? ¿Cuál es el significado del irresistible deseo de significado? ¿Cuál es el significado de la lucha por la supervivencia? Nadie
sobrevive, que yo sepa --- aunque
algunos han hablado o escrito sobre la inmortalidad --- pero creo que están engañados o hablando de alguna idea o infraestructura que podamos crear ya sea algo bueno, verdadero, noble --- o no --- que no se descomponga ni se disipe con nuestros cadáveres
--- o alguna mota, migrando
a través de nosotros, que nunca controlamos y rara vez logran captar la atención de los inversionistas. ¿Cuál
es el significado de la lucha por la supremacía? ¿O, brevemente, experimentar la supremacía? ¿ O del sentimiento de estar derrotado aún dándote cuenta de que todavía estás
vivo --- y te arrastras fuera
de sueños inquietantes o
abrazas el día como una oportunidad para la razón para tomar acción estratégica enfocada, si puedes lograrla.?'
Cualquiera
que me tome por una persona exitosa se engaña.Casi este momento, me esforzaba por tener éxito --- para ganar mucho de lo que deseaba ---Incluso para ganar más activos y poder que aquellos que intentan aprovecharse de mí ---incluso antes de darme cuenta de que existían ---o cómo calcularon lo que hacen. Si no compito, seré carne de otros, eso está claro. Pero puedes tener la mayor parte de aquello por
lo que nos enseñaron a luchar. Si lo consigues, no creo que lo hayas logrado. --- incluso si, por un breve tiempo, gobiernas. ¿Pero qué hay de mí? --- ¿Qué
debo hacer? & ¿por qué?
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NO ESCAPE FROM POLITICS by Eric Chaet There's no escape from
politics willing or
not, aware or not --- every
infant's first breath of atmosphere is accompanied by some citizen's care or inability to care already involved in the struggle for authority & power at least to become free to do what one would in the midst of others whose struggle is for more authority & power than that. So the child is guided & misguided in person, text, & telecommunicated messages. Neighborhood,
city, province, nation --- &
other nations, too --- our
politics bleed into one another & are one. When I say my time is too valuable to campaign for the privilege of arguing with other campaigners while history's patterns --- stylistically altered
--- repeat & what
is decent & wholesome is corrupted again --- til one more catastrophe ends the cycle --- I don't mean I'm not competing with the winners & losers & all those pretending they're not involved
--- while, vote or
no, they buy this not that &
trim their sails with the prevailing rhetoric & policies. I know poets are considered impotent --- but I'm hereby & always competing with what is considered so & inevitable
--- for influence,
authority, power --- so
the effects I want occur, not those opposing. You are, too --- realizing it or not --- willing or not, effective or not maybe in symbiosis with me, or against.
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NO HAY ESCAPE DE LA POLÍTICA por Eric Chaet No hay escapatoria de
la política dispuesto
o no, consciente o no --- El
primer soplo de aire de cada bebé. va acompañado de algún cuidado o descuido o incapacidad para cuidar ya involucrado en la lucha por la autoridad
y el poder. Si al menos ser libre de hacer lo que uno quisiera en medio de otros cuya lucha es por más autoridad y poder . Entonces el niño es guiado y descarriado. en persona, en los medios telecomunicados. Barrio, ciudad, provincia, nación --- Y el mundo también --- Nuestras políticas se fusionan entre sí
y son una. Cuando digo
que mi tiempo es demasiado valioso para hacer campaña por el privilegio de discutir con otros activistas mientras que los patrones de la historia ---
alterados estilísticamente --- se repiten. Y lo que es decente y saludable
se corrompe nuevamente --- Hasta
que una catástrofe más termine el ciclo --- Y todos aquellos que fingen no estar involucrados --- mientras, voten o no, compran esto y no aquello y ajustar sus velas con la retórica y
las políticas predominantes. Sé que los poetas son considerados impotentes --- pero estoy aquí y siempre compitiendo con lo que se considera inevitable --- por influencia, autoridad, poder --- para que se produzcan los efectos que quiero, no los que se oponen. Tú también lo eres, te des cuenta
o no. dispuesto o no,
efectivo o no tal vez
en simbiosis conmigo, o en contra.
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"Cuando escribo un poema, a menudo encuentro,
uno o dos días después, que hay partes que no expresé con claridad. Generalmente significa que hay un
concepto que no he aclarado en mi propia mente: es la frontera de mi pensamiento, precisamente lo que necesito aclarar, primero
para mí y luego para completar el poema. (Es así, no sólo para el poema, sino para seguir adelante con
la vida, en lugar de "retirarse", y luego prepararse para la muerte." De todos modos, me alegro de que estuvieras pensando en mí
. Espero que se encuentre bien y lo felicito por todo el trabajo que ha realizado en los últimos años, más
allá de lo que nadie hubiera esperado o exigido de usted. Sigue adelante, que estés bien. Sigue la visión de Eric sobre el costo de vida que él llama Precios. Es un viaje
a "Esto es CNN", "un viaje con Quest," una visita a Wall Street" o mirar escaparates en la Avenida
del Comercio para comprar alimentos. PRECIOS por Eric Chaet Todos están atentos a los precios --- después de un largo tiempo en el que se mantuvieron bastante firmes han estado aumentando rápidamente desde hace un tiempo --- ¿Y quién
los está cambiando? ¿La llamada "mano invisible del mercado"? --- No lo creo; es invisible. bien que lo es. ¿Los
directivos de las grandes corporaciones? ¿Los dirigentes políticos y los servidores públicos? Dudo que alguno de ellos se sienta en control --- Creo que se están adaptando frenéticamente esperando contra toda esperanza, no importa lo que hagan o engañarse a
sí mismos. Ciertamente no los pequeños empresarios del barrio. los héroes de la mitología prevalente, operadores de gasolineras, tiendas de comestibles y cafeterías locales y los supervivientes, hasta ahora, explotan pequeñas granjas lecheras. y negocios de instalación de ventanas y reparación de automóviles. No
los ensayistas de escritores,artistas, animadores. Y ciertamente no esos poetas, o animadores o los obstinadamente no alineados aunque lanzan novedades elaboradas --- No
es el mercado de Londres, Washington o Beijing. Y no son los presidentes ni los primeros ministros. Y ciertamente no son todos los comentaristas. en las redes de difusión o redes sociales. Como
en Europa, durante el colapso del Imperio Romano. o en China tras el colapso del gobierno imperial, todos se están adaptando a los demás y esperan que otros se adapten a ellos. Si tan sólo pudieran reajustarse a sí
mismos en lugar de
destrozarse con ansiedad o
dejarse llevar por la complacencia con
diversas drogas o escapes neuróticos. Cuando era niño, prestaba atención a los promedios. de hits, jonrones y carreras impulsadas de los jugadores de béisbol --- Fue un uso divertido de mi inteligencia. Esos jugadores de pelota ya están muertos. Y los nacidos en la riqueza ya son principalmente
ricos y los que nacen
en la desesperación están
principalmente desesperados. o
sumidos en una complacencia fatal --- Y hay guerras terribles aquí y allá. Y paz terrible en otros lugares con conquistadores violentos o sus descendientes viviendo del esfuerzo de quienes no pueden impedirlo. Mientras tanto, todos se ocupan de los precios
. & Soy el último
en decir que los precios no importan o lo que la gente compra, ya sea una vez o una y otra vez. Estoy atendiendo a los precios que pagamos y yo pago por lo que tenemos y yo tengo & a los otros
costos puntos ciegos
con consecuencias también. Tengo que obligarme a recordar mi cuerpo, mente y alma y los de los demás --- como un soldado frente a un enemigo que podría aprovechar cualquier fallo
en mi vigilancia. Tengo que obligarme a recordar que, si bien debo pagar los precios por lo que necesito ahora también debo pagar el precio por lograr
lo que espero. Translated
from English by Joseph Berolo
When I write a poem,
I often find, a day or two later, that there are parts I didn't quite express clearly. It usually means that there is a concept
that I haven't clarified in my own mind -- it's the frontier of my thinking, the very thing I need to get clear, first for
myself, then completing the poem. (It's so, not just for the poem, but going forward with living, rather than "retiring,"
then preparing for death. Anyway,
I'm glad you were thinking of me, & appreciate your sending the poem to me. I hope you are well, & congratulate you
on all the work you've done in recent years -- beyond what anyone would have been expecting or requiring of you. Keep on,
be well Here
is Eric´s take on the Cost of Living witch he calls Prices.. It is a trip to "This is CNN" , a journey
with Quest, a visit to Wall Street, or window shopping down Main Street to buy groceries.
PRICES by Eric Chaet Everyone is attending to prices --- after a long time in which they held pretty steady they've been rising fast for a while now --- & who is changing them? The
so-called "invisible hand of the market?" --- I don't think so, though it's invisible, all right. The managers of the
big corporations &
the top political appointees & civil servants? I doubt that any of them feel in control --- I think they're mainly frantically adjusting & hoping against hope, no matter what they
say or fooling themselves. Certainly
not the neighborhood small entrepreneurs the heroes of the prevailing mythology operators of gas stations & grocery stores & local cafes & the survivors, so far, operating small
dairy farms & window
installment & car repair businesses. Not the aggregators of writers, artists, entertainers & certainly not those writers, artists, or
entertainers though
they throw themselves elaborate celebrations --- or the stubbornly unaffiliated. It's not the market in London, Washington, or
Beijing & it's
not the presidents or prime ministers & it's certainly not all the commenters on the broadcast networks or social media.
Like in Europe, during the collapse of the Roman Empire or in China after the collapse of the Imperial government everyone is adjusting to everyone else & hoping to get others to adjust to them if only they can re-adjust to themselves rather than tear themselves apart with anxiety or lull themselves into complacency with various drugs or neurotic dodges.+ When I was a boy, I paid attention to averages of baseball players' hits, home runs, runs batted
in --- it was an amusing
use of my intelligence. Those
ball players are mostly dead now &
those born into wealth are mainly wealthy & those born into desperation are mainly desperate or lulled into fatal complacency --- & there are terrible wars here & there & terrible peaces elsewhere with violent conquerors or their descendants living off the efforts of those who can't prevent
it. Meanwhile, everyone is attending to prices --- & I'm the last to say that prices don't matter --- or what people buy, whether once, or over &
over. I'm attending to the prices we pay & I pay for what we get & I get & to the other costs blind spots with consequences, as well. I have to force myself to remember my & others' bodies, minds, souls --- like some soldier facing an enemy that might take advantage of any lapse in my
vigilance. I have to force myself to remember that, while I must pay the prices for what I need now I must also pay the price to realize what I hope
for.
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Born, Chicago, USA, 1945. Raised on
rough South Side. Janitorial, clerical, factory, warehouse work, teaching jobs from the East Coast to West, years of
hitchhiking, often sleeping outside, eating little. 25 years solo consulting assignments: logistics, manufacturing,
space exploration, & agriculture operations research out of my northeast Wisconsin home. I study a lot, & try
to modify behavior according to what I learn. Album of songs: Solid and Sound (1977). Books: Old Buzzard of No-Man's
Land (poems, 1974), How To Change the World Forever For Better (telegraphic philosophy, 1990, second edition, 1994), People
I Met Hitchhiking On USA Highways (narrative prose, 2001). About 1,500 posters (silk-screened on scraps of cloth) stapled
to utility poles across USA (1985-1995). 100 So-Called Poems (website, 2007 - now). I KNOW HOW TO AROUSE INDIGNATION to play on people's frustrations & resentments-- to rise in their esteem & even gain power by focusing
their fury-- dangling the prospect of settling the score against some group or individual-- this or that class or race or accent or appearance-- I know how to arouse indignation--but I won't do it! Do you suppose that the
demagogues who
reach the top of movements & nations by arousing indignation in that way are freely enjoying their power & wealth? They must keep delivering
their speech whatever
happens to them in private & however they feel--as long as they live-- there can be no pause while their audience realizes that one
sort of dissatisfaction has only been replaced by another sort of dissatisfaction-- they don't dare stop pretending that they can banish the suffering of those on whose shoulders they are being paraded! I
know how to arouse indignation--but I won't do it!
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Nacido en Chicago, EE. UU., 1945. Criado en el South
Side.Autoeducado, recorre losEE UU desde muy niño trabajando en limpieza de oficinas, fábricas,
almacén, desde la Costa este hasta el oeste, años de echar dedo en las carreteras a menudo durmiendo al
aire libre, comiendo poco. Así y 25 años de transferi sus experiencias t dando consultoría individual
en logística, fabricación, exploración espacial y investigación de operaciones agrícolas.
Formóun hogar en el noreste de Wisconsin. Estudió mucho e intento modificar el comportamiento de acuerdo
con lo que aprendía. Tiene un Álbum de canciones: Solid and Sound (1977). Libros: Viejo zopilote de la tierra
de nadie (poemas, 1974), Cómo cambiar el mundo para siempre y para
mejor ° En proceso de traducción al español. (filosofía telegráfica,
1990, segunda edición, 1994), Gente que conocí haciendo autostop en las autopistas de EE. UU. (Prosa narrativa,
2001). Alrededor de 1.500 carteles (serigrafiados en trozos de tela) grapados a postes de servicios públicos en todo
Estados Unidos (1985-1995). Poesía Poemas tal llamados .
Sé cómo despertar la indignación
Jugando con las frustraciones y los resentimientos de la gente, para aumentar su estima e incluso ganar poder concentrando, colgando de su furia ante la perspectiva de ajustar cuentas contra algún grupo o individuo tal o cual clase, raza, acento o apariencia. Sé cómo provocar indignación,
¡pero no lo haré!
¿Crees que
los demagogos que alcanzan
la cima de movimientos y naciones despertando
así la indignación disfrutan
libremente de su poder y riqueza?
Deben seguir dando
su discurso pase
lo que les pase en privado o
como se sientan. Mientras vivan... no puede haber pausa mientras su audiencia se da cuenta que un tipo de insatisfacción solo ha sido reemplazado por otro tipo de insatisfacción, ¡ No se atreven a dejar de fingir que pueden desterrar el sufrimiento de aquellos sobre cuyos hombros se pasean! Sé cómo provocar indignación,
¡pero no lo haré!
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FAITH & STRATEGY Before humanity's misguided behavior engulfs my knowledge, efforts, needs-- & the efforts & needs, too of my contemporaries who begin in disadvantage-- I sustain myself by parallel efforts. I
must recall & mercifully tend to
my appalled mind, body, personality-- while sharpening my preparation & deeds. I intensify frequency & amplitude-- & induce practical cooperation when I can. I
take no pride in cleverness, but apply it. I don't compete for loot or looters' esteem. Since results lag efforts---most beyond our life-times'
limit-- I devise my
own gauge for return on investment. I must not crash, go broke, be neutralized-- It's my duty to succeed. ///
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FE Y ESTRATEGIA Ante
el comportamiento equivocado de la humanidad ahogue mis conocimientos, renuevo mis esfuerzos y considero mis necesidades y sostengo con esfuerzos paralelos. a mis contemporáneos que comienzan en desventaja. Debo
pensar y cuidar misericordiosamente mi mente, mi cuerpo, mi personalidad mientras afino mi preparación y mis obras. Intensifico frecuencia
y amplitud a inducir la cooperación práctica cuando pueda. No me enorgullezco de la inteligencia, pero la aplico. No compito por el botín
o la estima de los saqueadores. Dado que los resultados retrasan los esfuerzos, la mayoría más allá del
límite de nuestra vida, diseño
mi propio indicador de recuperación de la inversión. sin estrellarme, arruinarme, o ser neutralizado ... Es mi deber triunfar. ///
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UNCHOSEN & UNPROMISED We unchosen people start assaulted & ruled, among the lures &
discards of those who
tell themselves & one another that
they're the chosen few. Their
goal perpetuation, mine to thrive & serve those who suffer disadvantage & from others' unwillingness to know what they do. My work is emerging from helplessness & helping the helpless become effective,
too. There will be
no chosen, then &
no unchosen, either: one
plus one, then more & more we
emerge from helplessness, in the unpromised land. ///
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NO ESCOGIDO & SIN PROMESAS
Nosotros, los no elegidos comenzamosasaltados
y gobernados entre los señuelos y sobradosde los que se dicen a sí mismos y entre
ellosque son los pocos elegidos. Su meta perpetuarse,
la mía luchar y servir a los que son discriminadosignorados
por falta de voluntad de los demáspara saber lo que hacen.Mi trabajo emerge de
la impotencia & ayudar a los indefensos me empodera..No habrá
elegidos, entonces tampoco sin escoger...uno más
uno, luego más y más emergerán de la impotencia en la tierra no
prometida.
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PENSANDO EN EL FUTURO Tengo que liberarme para pensar y afectar el futuro, hoy, mañana, el resto de la semana, mes, año el resto de mi vida y más allá para poder interactuar con todos los que luchan con puro corazón disciplinándose para no dañar a los demás y desarrollar y contribuir con todo lo que sean capaces. Tengo que liberarme de las mezquinas expectativas que otros quieren
imponerme. y saber que me he interiorizado
y me he empoderado y aprendido de
los grandes engaños- y pensar y afectar el futuro.
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THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE I have to break free to think about & affect the future today, tomorrow, the rest of the week, month, year the rest of my life, & beyond- for all those who strive with pure heart disciplining
themselves so as not to harm others & yet,
to develop & contribute what they're capable of. I
have to get free of the petty expectations others lay on me &
that I've internalized & lay on myself &
also of the grand delusions- & think about
& affect the future.
Eric Chaet ..Continue complete works
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DIALOGO PARA SEGUIR PENSANDO/DIALOGUE TO CONTINUE THINKING
Joseph,
Gracias por hacerme saber de ti., ¿ Cómo estás? ¿Cómo vas llevando tu vida durante la pandemia? ¿ Sigues
activo en tu comunidad? Eric. No sé qué tan bien lo estoy haciendo. Depende de los demás, si me ayudan
a descubrir y articular y permitir que influya
en suventaja y la de aquellos con quienes interactúan. Pero no estoy enfermo, ni me bombardean ni me torturan. Ni siquiera estoy terriblemente ansioso, aunque mi sensación de incapacidad para la tarea a veces es muy pesada. Pero estoy progresando mucho para ser más adecuado. Joseph.
: Tu mensaje me deja pensando en el significado exacto
de--- " lo bien que lo estamos haciendo ... ¿Depende de los demás? ¿Puede su juicio ser causante de nuestro estado de ánimo? Quizá, si nuestra función
es sólo servir a otros y sobre esa base construir nuestro ser interior ... si hacemos el bien, nos sentimos bien, pero ¿Qué es bueno
o malo a los ojos de los demás? No todo el mundo toma nuestras acciones de la manera que pretendemos. Pensando en hacer el bien,
a veces terminamos causando daño...
Eric," A menudo siento que estoy muy lejos de hacer las cosas bien. "a veces es muy pesada la sensación de ser inadecuado ... Joseph
!Oh! SÍ. lo es para mí ... es el peor sentimiento que uno puede tener -- si se toma positivamente, se convierte en renovación de la fe y fortaleza moral ... grandeza espiritual.
Eric. Hasta aquí todo bien. (No queda mucho tiempo). Es bueno ver que estás haciendo lo que haces. Espero que estés
bien también. Aprecio lo que has hecho y
todo lo que puedas hacer para hacer un buen uso de mi trabajo. Que te vaya bien.
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Joseph. Thanks for letting me know about you. How are you? How are you leading your life during the
pandemic? Are you still active in your community? Eric. I don't know how well I'm doing. It depends on the others, if they
help me discover and articulate and allow it to influence their thinking and those with whom they interact.
But I'm not sick, I'm not bombed or tortured. Not even t anxious, although my sense of inadequacy for the task
is sometimes very heavy. But I'm making a lot of progress to be more suitable. Joseph.
: Your message leaves me thinking about the exact meaning of --- "how well we are doing ... Does it depend on others? Can our judgment be the cause of our mood? Perhaps, if our role is only to serve others and on that basiswe build our inner being ... if we do good, we
feel good, but what is good or bad in the eyes of others? Not everyone takes our actions the way we intend. Thinking of doing good, sometimes
we end up causing harm..,. Eric,
"I often feel that I am far from doing the right thing." Sometimes the feeling of being inadequate is very
heavy ... Joseph! Oh! YES. it happens to me ... it is the worst feeling one can have --but - if taken positively, it
becomes renewal of faith and moral strength
... spiritual greatness. Eric. So far so good. (Not much time left). It is good to see that you
are doing what you do. I hope you're well too. I appreciate
what you have done and what you can do to make good use of my work. !Good luck!
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Dear Eric I am so glad to publish your page the way I
did , with the dialogue , and the translations, so far , the most siginficatives a... , you are a great poet , down
to earth, writing the truth about he human condition " I Try & try to figure out what to say, that will have good
consequences, &, hopefully, great ones -- then I try & try to reach those who will receive it gladly, & modify
their beliefs & subsequent activity, to their & everyone's benefit -- but it's so frustrating, I have to be braver
than I'm brave, most of the time. " PERIOD . THIS IS YOU, AND I ADMIRE YOU , HAPPY HOLIDAYS b
Querido Eric: Estoy muy contento de publicar
u página de la forma que lo hago, con el diálogo y los poemas traducidos , hasta ahora, los
más significativos ; eres un gran poeta Eric, con los pies en la tierra, escribiendo la verdad. de la condición
humana "Trato & y trato de decir lo que traiga á buenas consecuencias y, con suerte, Grandes; luego
intento llegar con fe y gusto a los que las reciben y ver de entender sus creencias y actividades
para su beneficio y el de todos, pero es muy frustrante, la mayor parte del tiempo tengo que ser más valiente que valiente
". Eric . PERIODO. ESTE ES USTED, Y LE ADMIRO, FELICES FIESTAS
Himno para la humanidad ¡Humanidad!
¡Humanidad! ¡Espiral a través del
mar cósmico! Tonos como piedras & cerámica, ! impresionante verdad & adulación ! Humanidad embriagada con una fuerza inmerecida, inconsciente del bien & mal; triste, irredenta se tambalea. Más consciente que el chimpancé hormiga o estrella de mar, hierba o árbol! Susceptible a la vanidad, ira & generosidad! Humanidad...Banderas y fronteras, esquemas de tontos haz
que tus pulgares & mente sean las herramientas de guerra, en lugar de victoria sobre sequía, inundación, herida! ¡Humanidad! ¡Humanidad! ¡Espiral a través del mar cósmico! Niño & anciano, mujer, hombre- planifica & actúa humildemente tu plan!
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Anthem For Humanity Humanity!
Humanity! Spiral thru the cosmic sea! Hues like stones & pottery, stunning truth & flattery!
Some are drunk with unearned strength, unaware of right &
wrong; some are sad & reel from blows & strive to readjust with
song!
More aware than chimpanzee, ant or star-fish, grass or tree! Susceptible to vanity, wrath,
& generosity!
Flags & borders, schemes
of fools make your thumbs & minds the tools of war, instead of victory over drought, flood, injury!
Humanity!
Humanity! Spiral thru the cosmic sea! Child & elder, woman, man- plan, & humbly act your plan!
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Humanity
Where has humanity come from? Where is it going? Will it ever find a way to integrate its impulses? Will it ever learn to discriminate between leaders & frauds? Will it ever get over its awe of mere size & confidence?
Who are the Caucasians? Where
did the Celts & Teutons come from? Where did
the ancestors of the ancestors of the Hellenes
& Romans come from? What sparked the Vikings'
voyages of conquest? What are the heart-felt beliefs beneath Europeans' professions, liturgies, & scoffings? What is the relation among altruism & insecurity & greed? How far along is the machine revolution?
Who
are the Africans? What is the relationship of the tribes
& nations? What is the relationship among
the genes, plains & jungles mines, teeming
cities, & international commerce? Will Africans
organize & integrate? Will they be an overwhelming
army or enlightened cooperating race? Will Africans
be defeated by their legacy of victimization & poverty? Will
a great prophet appear in their midst only to
have his or her message bogged down in generations
of administrators' competition for authority? Will
Africa continue to be the land of plague, drought, famine, war?
Who are the
Semites? Will the Hebrews & Arabs find their common
cause? Will the Aramaens, Phoenicians, & Parthians
re-emerge? Have the Assyrians forever been assimilated
by other peoples? Where did the Sumerians come
from? Were their gods truly space-travelers who
cloned human laborers? What is the true history
of agriculture, metallurgy, brewing, cities?
Who are the Hindus? the Chinese?
the Japanese? Where did the Polynesians come from? the
Ainu? Aborigines? Mongols? Finns? Basque? Who do the Central American flat-nosed Olmec statues represent? Who else is gone without a word of history?
What
is the origin of the tribes of America?- the buffalo-hunters,
pyramid-builders, canoe-voyage traders?
When did it all start? Is humanity forever bogged down in wishful thinking, panics, greed? Will the necessary questioning always be suppressed by those with the most force & those whose struggle has been to find a comfortable way to serve them? Will the only impulses-the noble impulses-that might unite us always be feared, handicapped, ridiculed, persecuted by those afraid to postpone even for an instant adaptation to whatever unjust status quo prevails?
Is humanity a primitive organism with
attributes that are merely startling preludes of
what a more successful species yet to emerge will manifest? Or
is it a joke, a dead-end, a bragging drunk about to collapse? Or
is humanity still in its infancy- & wisdom
refraining from grabbing the most popular toys &
working for a maturity never yet experienced- &
only occasionally & briefly conceivable?
Is humanity early on, or in the
midst of a stage of development or on the brink of a
sudden transformation?- like birth, death, spring,
or the metamorphosis of caterpillars?
Will it be able to recover after reaping the bitter harvests planted by those no one could or would stop in waters, atmosphere, foods, & soils- & after the enraged striking-out of victimized youths no one cared about enough to help effectively?
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Empathy
I dreamed of
neighbors only slightly known secretly suffering their hopes thwarted- that I
could do nothing for them & couldn't even
prevent myself from being one of them.
Those
I'd Help
Those I'd help will
take no help from me & give me none- they don't believe that they need help they're proud
& deluded they need help & give me none- & I need help. My Trial
I'm preparing for the trial of the rest of my life. I'm accused of wasting my time & talents colluding with evil, rolling with injustice's punches rationalizing, adapting, drifting along by reflex action.
I
know of no defense attorney who can help me. The laws
are as different from justice as red is from green,
or dissonance from harmony. No judge nor jury
can be expected to sympathize nor to understand
the facts, precedents, or context.
Whether I convince anyone of anything or not whether the laws or even the State's name changes the trial for which I'm always diligently preparing has already begun-& will continue as long as I live.
Achievement
If, before I die, I should gain great wealth & renown & park my giant yacht among the others & attend festivities among others likewise invited wearing expensive outfits & honoring one another- if the president should pin a medal on me or even if I should be elected president- if professional commentators should continually speak of me in glowing terms as tho I'm a philanthropist, & efficient, too- if I should master this or that skill set medical or electronic or programming or financial or mathematical or musical, or this or that game- if it should be generally conceded that I am the greatest master of all times at the techniques I have dedicated myself to mastering- if I should win bet after bet & the dividends rain in on me as on no one else- if I should be a universally acclaimed celebrity & no one can approach me without an appointment & without honing their presentation down to a brief summary so as not to waste my precious time- if all the other members of the elect should agree & all the commoners & those wasting away should also
agree that I'm the most successful
person of my time or of all times- but
there is as much suffering as when I began & as much injustice as when I began & the elect & excluded keep living out illusions conventional illusions nearly everyone agrees are just plain facts or particular illusions closer to what's so than what most
people think but still pretty
far from the truth- illusions
nursed in their secret hearts while
they respond conventionally to conventional cues- & if those attempting to be righteous are punished & the weak & relatively innocent are food for the ferocious & cunning- then I will have achieved nothing worth mentioning.
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SOLIDARITY & BEYOND I'm the son of parents who never found their feet of migrants from where they'd never completely arrived to another place they never completely arrived & also the son of their neighbors from everywhere likewise groping & flailing among some who would take advantage of them more solidly established or imagining they were so--- but mainly among those too busy trying to avoid joining them to lend a hand or meal or hygienic quarters--- so that fighting versus gravity, winter, & pathogens was what they specialized in making
a career of exerting themselves without sufficient
understanding, resources, or rest til they died
of the constant effort. I, too, witness the migrants who never arrive groping & flailing among
some who would take advantage of them while I'm
so busy mainly trying to avoid joining them or
merely living & dying, specializing in the effort of
fighting versus gravity, winter, & pathogens--- &
trying to figure out how profitably to insert myself among
others likewise trying profitably to insert themselves in
the midst of those so desperate for immunity from
the mere struggle versus gravity, winter, & pathogens that
they don't believe they can afford the time to
become & be righteous, wise, & kind. I'm an old man, yet such a son, still & while I live, I hope to become more effective in service to those whose need is even greater than mine--- my hope is to become more & more effective so--- I have little time left, but more understanding tho understanding is never complete, always evolving--- habits of ineffectiveness & effectiveness, likewise--- not merely to express my solidarity with those suffering nor merely to be esteemed by others expressing solidarity with those who are suffering--- &, without losing hope, not merely to hope, either I don't mean to insult those expressing such solidarity--- I'm expressing such solidarity, too!---it's a start--- nothing good begins without a good intention--- but words aren't enough, tho they're part of what's needed--- first, ideas formed, correctly, within oneself then words for the ideas---no easy matter while you're a specialist in groping & flailing--- then the words launched somehow into the world where others can consider them, if they will--- & compelling enough, somehow that some, eager to speak, not listen will
actually listen, & consider them &
modify their behavior accordingly if you've managed
to make advantageous suggestions regarding more
effective behavior--- however much they're groping
& flailing.
Beyond groping & flailing beyond words, beyond expressing solidarity--- eventually---may
you & I while we live reach the point--- we could discuss how actually to
transform the situation--- it's happened again & again, enough already, no?--- transform it temporarily here & there, firstalso making an impression, more than words that no one & nothing can annihilate--- & eventually, eventually---actually---forever, everywhere. If it's not possible, why are we talking? Are we just trying to impress one another that our sentiments are correct & that we're clever with language? If it is possible let's get beyond suffering in solidarity &
transform the situation more & more effectively--- always
with mercy even for ourselves--- not just exerting
ourselves to exhaustion & dying of futile
efforts, as so often happens--- but not contenting
ourselves, either that we've finally managed to
put into words our anguish, indignation, solidarity.
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SOLIDARIDAD Y MÁS
ALLÁ Soy
hijo de padres que nunca encontraron su rumbo de migrantes que nunca llegaron por completo a donde llegaron antes o ningun lugar llegaron completamente--- y tambien soy el hijo de sus vecinos de todas partes igualmente tanteando
y agitando entre los que se aprovechaban de ellos mejor establecidos o creyendo que lo estaban-- principalmente
entre aquellos demasiado ocupados tratando de evitar unirse a ellos darles una mano o comida o una vivienda higiénica
--- así su desafío para sobrevivir, el invierno y los microbios ¿lucha poderosa ,enorme esfuerzo,
sin comprender nada sin recursos y así hasta morir. Yo también soy testigo de los migrantes
que nunca llegan, a tientas y agitándoseentre algunos que se aprovecharían de ellos mientras estoy
tan ocupado principalmente tratando de evitar unirme a ellos o simplemente vivir y morir, especializándome en
el esfuerzo de luchar contra la gravedad, el invierno y los patógenos --- y tratando de descubrir cómo
insertarme rentablemente entre otros, tratando de insertarse igualmente en medio de aquellos tan desesperados por
la inmunidad de la mera lucha contra la gravedad, el invierno y los patógenos que no creen que puedan permitirse
el tiempo llegar a ser y ser justos, sabios y amables. Soy un hombre viejo, pero sigo siemdo hijo y
mientras vivo tengo la esperanza de ser más efectivo al
servicio a aquellos cuyas necesidade son incluso mayores que ls mías --- mi esperanza es ser más y más eficaz, así que --- Me queda poco tiempo, pero más comprensión no solo para expresar mi solidaridad con los que sufren sino paea la comprensión que nunca es completa, siempre evoluciona
--- hábitos de ineficacia y efectividad,
igualmente --- expresando solidaridad con los
que sufren --- no simplemente para ser estimado
sino para tampoco perder la esperanza. No pretendo insultar a quienes
son tan solidarios--- ¡También
lo hago! --- es un comienzo --- nada bueno comienza
sin no hay buena intención --- pero las
palabras no son suficientes, aunque son parte
de lo que se necesita --- primero, ideas formadas,
correctamente, dentro de uno mismo luego palabras
para las ideas --- no es fácil mientras
eres un especialista en andar a tientas --- entonces
las palabras se lanzan de alguna manera al mundo donde
otros pueden considerarlas, si lo desean --- yson
lo suficientemente convincentes. de alguna
manera algunos, ansiosos por hablar, no escuchan. Si realmente escucharan considerian modificar su comportamiento, - por
mucho que estén a tientas y agitándose. Más
allá de tocar a tientas y agitarse más allá de las palabras, más allá de expresar solidaridad ---eventualmente --- tú y yo mientras vivimos y lleguemos al punto --- podríamos discutir cómo transformar realmente la situación
--- ha sucedido una y otra vez, ya suficiente,
¿o no? --- Transformarlo todo temporalmente
aquí y allá, causando impresión,
más que palabras que nadie y nada pueden aniquilar --- y
eventualmente, eventualmente --- en realidad --- para
siempre, en todas partes. Si no es posible, ¿Por qué estamos hablando? ¿Estamos tratando de impresionarnos unos a otros? que nuestros sentimientos son correctos y que somos inteligentes con el lenguaje? Si es posible vamos más
allá del sufrimiento en solidaridad a transformar
la situación más y más efectivamente --- siempre
con misericordia incluso para con nosotros mismos --- no
solo esforzándonos hasta el agotamiento y
morir de esfuerzos inútiles, como suele suceder --- pero
tampoco contentarnos que finalmente logramos poner
en palabras nuestra angustia, indignación,
solidaridad.
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MEN by Eric
Chaet Tom's been on the job 3 months, still smiles, can't shut up about precision with which he runs
machines. Klem was born in Lithuania, Germans cut off his military schooling, & gave him choice to
work or fight for Germany, labored in Lithuania,
Brazil & Argentina, for railroad in Pennsylvania, speaks 6 languages, looks like T.S. Eliot with muscles, wife may be dying of swollen neck glands in hospital, where doctor don't
promise nothing, & they rob you in broad day. Israelis chased Abe the Arab from his home, he had 22 date trees 6 miles
west of Jerusalem, he crawls into machine whenever
it malfunctions & quickly fixes it, thinking about divorcing his pregnant wife who believes he is having an affair with her cousin, & shows me every consideration-he
says Shalom, I say Salaam-when I make boxes
for him, demonstrating with hands each shorn a finger to second digit. Harris speaks only
to black men, only snaps at me when has to, gray specter tinctured dark brown. Sam thinks being Polish is a joke on him, smiles in round layers of fat, reaching across circle to grab hot plastic with cotton gloves, setting up huge 18 below. Groundhog
Benson banged his head & opened pouring hole, blinked twice, & said 2 shots would fill it, followed
by 2 beers. Ken eats candy bars & swells noiselessly over rebelling nerves. James Lee
Johnson's a giant black youth once walked from Wisconsin 31 cents in pocket, to find he'd lost a job, too tired this last month to lift weights at home. Woody says
he has 3 years of law school & is worth $165,000, housepainter 37 years, retired & took this job to not relax, can't keep hands off me trying to demonstrate quick cuts of razor thru thick film among jerking oily rotations. Pete's wife of 19 years left him to run away with motorcycle gang, now brags of his lover met in tavern & callousness to wife, broke-hearted, fading white smoke, foreman, disappearing
before my eyes. we
drink some beers 63rd & Cicero, mornings, driving home. #1484, shift 3-D, midnight till morning, polyethylene
division, Chicago plant, earning
some money, I quit.
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THE NEXT MOMENT I live right in the middle of everything: between Venus & Mars, the arctic & Amazon. I have more money & freedom than some, less than others, more skills
& understanding than some, less than others. I live between birth & death, history & the future. On the one hand: elementary
natural forces- on the other: the market, political
machinations, traditions, & widely-held beliefs. People don't call me much, but
I have a phone. Some people have heard of me,
but not many. Some pay attention to what I say,
but not many, & not often, or for long. I'm not without power- but people with far more power than I trigger events that sweep me along like tsunamis. I live in the era of capitalist revolutionaries: they innovate & organize, squeeze all possible profit out of the labor & materials they synchronize- these are no shrinking violets!- then use the profits to innovate again- leaving
all they previously created obsolete, & any
who can't keep up, stranded by the side of the
road with a lot of fancy, odd-shaped appliances that have little application to their current needs or hopes- like children's toys, five minutes
after they tire of them. I live among capitalists, the stranded, & children. People don't notice me-I'm one of them- right
in the middle of everything. After the time of hunting & gathering, &
improvising a language, while the tribe moves
on; & after the time when the peasants- with their tools, land, & animals, & confessors, plagues, & lords- were sure where they belonged; &
after the cities, factories, nations, & wars- I
continue into whatever the future is going to be. I'm for liberty, but justice, too. I'm for justice, but liberty, too. Yes!
I say. No! I also say. I'm not altogether confident,
or without hope, either. The next moment is a
mystery to me. I not only don't know what I'm
going to do: it's not even clear to me what I hope to accomplish.
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A Man Swerves His Car A man swerves his car as tho to hit
me where I stand on road shoulder torn between thumbing a ride east
from Kansas City & watching a crew lay bricks on a newly-erected wood frame. At the last moment, he turns aside. He wants me more aware of death & of himself &
myself if I'm going to stand in midst of world that's driving him back
& forth along highways.
EMPATHY I dreamed of neighbors only slightly known secretly suffering their hopes
thwarted- that I could do nothing for them & couldn't even prevent myself from being one of them. GREAT BATTLES
The so-called successes of
my celebrated contemporaries are so puny, I'd laugh if I weren't afraid that the congregations of the taverns, churches, courts,
& arenas would beat me til I'd feign respectfulness. How I wish I'd hear from those, like me engaged in great, unnoticed battles!
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STATE STREET, CHICAGO
Beneath law, lie ocean, ape, & dream- branches & leaves wrestle & dance with wind roots reach elsewhere. Broke-nose
Chicago ascends the lumbering bus jamming in aggravated swarms aboard or slowly thoughtful in worn clothes- to feed the work addiction, morning & streetlamp night. My grandmother on my father's side rode
by horse-back from Pharaoh & Babylon the Persian & Seleucid empires English,
French, Spanish, German expulsions- nationalism & bigotry breaking the feudal shell the dismantling of Poland-Lithuania & arrested development in the Pale of Settlement- access to nutrients deliberately withheld- then incited rioters, while
police stood by burned the roofs under ecstatic, autistic fiddlers- time
to move or die, however dire the options- thru mechanized, electrifying Germany by locomotive to the steamer ark- & emerged from the rocking, implacable sea at Baltimore-& caught another connection thru Cumberland Gap's doppler zones to this booming refrigerated railroad car city- as ravenous for cheap sewing machine operators as for cowed, driven, bellowing meat. Trailing Assyria, caesar, czar of
all Odessa & Kiev, hasid, & kosher butcher. She met her man
on day shift & lived behind store-front near penalized black Africans mafiosa & their wives & children Irish cops & bars & tenors & stench of pig & steer massacres. I am only trying for a straight
account of how I come to be walking up State sucking Chicago's rusty
teat dreaming & growing stronger.
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STATE STREET, CHICAGO
Beneath law, lie ocean, ape, & dream- branches & leaves wrestle & dance with wind roots reach elsewhere. Broke-nose
Chicago ascends the lumbering bus jamming in aggravated swarms aboard or slowly thoughtful in worn clothes- to feed the work addiction, morning & streetlamp night. My grandmother on my father's side rode
by horse-back from Pharaoh & Babylon the Persian & Seleucid empires English,
French, Spanish, German expulsions- nationalism & bigotry breaking the feudal shell the dismantling of Poland-Lithuania & arrested development in the Pale of Settlement- access to nutrients deliberately withheld- then incited rioters, while
police stood by burned the roofs under ecstatic, autistic fiddlers- time
to move or die, however dire the options- thru mechanized, electrifying Germany by locomotive to the steamer ark- & emerged from the rocking, implacable sea at Baltimore-& caught another connection thru Cumberland Gap's doppler zones to this booming refrigerated railroad car city- as ravenous for cheap sewing machine operators as for cowed, driven, bellowing meat. Trailing Assyria, caesar, czar of
all Odessa & Kiev, hasid, & kosher butcher. She met her man
on day shift & lived behind store-front near penalized black Africans mafiosa & their wives & children Irish cops & bars & tenors & stench of pig & steer massacres. I am only trying for a straight
account of how I come to be walking up State sucking Chicago's rusty
teat dreaming & growing stronger.
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PENNSYLVANIA WHISKERS & A RUSSIAN LADY
On
our way to march in Washington we filed in from the bus, shaking with cold breathing white vapor into the coal-grimey
air & hunched over the all-night counter among bleary miners- strangers brought together on another mission
unlikely to succeed for sanity & justice elbowing mugs of steam to nostrils. Drops of chocolate malt trembled
at my new beard's tips: one blackened, wheat-bearded, piercing-eyed miner swiveled on his stool, & bellowed
for my benefit: Let them whiskers grow, young fella! Let them whiskers grow! There was giggling about it, rolling
thru Maryland: but I was thinking of the woman in the green dress alone-she'd seemed old to me-at the free concert- synchronized emanations from within the shell Lake Michigan slapping its concrete shore- one crew-cut summer evening
in the Loop next to Mom- who was carried as an infant from one empire to another before I had a clue how Grant Park
or Chicago came to be or in which third doomed empire Beethoven harvested, then deployed the sounds- who, seeing
my book, said, "Anna Karenina, ah!" &, when I nodded, rattled Russian off so hard & fast-I thought
she'd cry when she finally noticed my uncomprehending eye.
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PENNSYLVANIA WHISKERS & A RUSSIAN LADY
On
our way to march in Washington we filed in from the bus, shaking with cold breathing white vapor into the coal-grimey
air & hunched over the all-night counter among bleary miners- strangers brought together on another mission
unlikely to succeed for sanity & justice elbowing mugs of steam to nostrils. Drops of chocolate malt trembled
at my new beard's tips: one blackened, wheat-bearded, piercing-eyed miner swiveled on his stool, & bellowed
for my benefit: Let them whiskers grow, young fella! Let them whiskers grow! There was giggling about it, rolling
thru Maryland: but I was thinking of the woman in the green dress alone-she'd seemed old to me-at the free concert- synchronized emanations from within the shell Lake Michigan slapping its concrete shore- one crew-cut summer evening
in the Loop next to Mom- who was carried as an infant from one empire to another before I had a clue how Grant Park
or Chicago came to be or in which third doomed empire Beethoven harvested, then deployed the sounds- who, seeing
my book, said, "Anna Karenina, ah!" &, when I nodded, rattled Russian off so hard & fast-I thought
she'd cry when she finally noticed my uncomprehending eye.
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A Man Swerves His Car A man swerves his car as tho to hit
me where I stand on road shoulder torn between thumbing a ride east
from Kansas City & watching a crew lay bricks on a newly-erected wood frame. At the last moment, he turns aside. He wants me more aware of death & of himself &
myself if I'm going to stand in midst of world that's driving him back
& forth along highways.
EMPATHY I dreamed of neighbors only slightly known secretly suffering their hopes
thwarted- that I could do nothing for them & couldn't even prevent myself from being one of them. GREAT BATTLES
The so-called successes of
my celebrated contemporaries are so puny, I'd laugh if I weren't afraid that the congregations of the taverns, churches, courts,
& arenas would beat me til I'd feign respectfulness. How I wish I'd hear from those, like me engaged in great, unnoticed battles!
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A Man Swerves His Car A man swerves his car as tho to hit
me where I stand on road shoulder torn between thumbing a ride east
from Kansas City & watching a crew lay bricks on a newly-erected wood frame. At the last moment, he turns aside. He wants me more aware of death & of himself &
myself if I'm going to stand in midst of world that's driving him back
& forth along highways.
EMPATHY I dreamed of neighbors only slightly known secretly suffering their hopes
thwarted- that I could do nothing for them & couldn't even prevent myself from being one of them. GREAT BATTLES
The so-called successes of
my celebrated contemporaries are so puny, I'd laugh if I weren't afraid that the congregations of the taverns, churches, courts,
& arenas would beat me til I'd feign respectfulness. How I wish I'd hear from those, like me engaged in great, unnoticed battles!
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To say that the enterprise
that underlies the emails coming from Joseph Berolo is impressive, is an understatement. A lot of it passes me by, as translating from Spanish is difficult for me, & Google's translations
are far from elegant, let alone poetic. As always, I find most poetry---English, Spanish, everywhere; ancient, modern,
all times; all styles---not to my liking or advantage. Although the poetry I like & find advantageous, I love, & consult
again & again.) I am most impressed with what Joseph has done, organizing, making himself capable,
making so much happen. It's wonderful. I like to think that he haS done something equivalent, but few can see
the results so far, & many of the results are yet to emerge, so can't be displayed. I appreciate his attention to the website of my 100 so-called poems, of 50+ years:
ericchaet.wordpress.com. Toward the end of the menu, there is a page called The Turnaround Artist, on which I tell a very
little about the results so far. Please, I can see that, if anyone is busy, it's you. I don't expect you to look at the site. I only offer
it, in case you're interested. I believe
it to be extraordinary, tho. Keep it up!
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Decir
que el proceso que subyace en las creaciónes provenientes de Joseph Berolo es impresionante, es un
eufemismo. Mucho de eso me pasa, ya que traducir
del español es difícil para mí, y las traducciones de Google están lejos de ser elegantes, y mucho
menos poéticas. Aunque encuentro
que la mayoría de la poesía: inglés, español, en todas partes; antiguo, moderno, todo el tiempo;
todos los estilos --- no es de mi agrado . Sim
embargo, la poesía me gusta y me encanta, y la trabajo de vez en cuando- Estoy muy impresionado con lo que Joseph ha hecho, organizarse, hacerse capaz, hacer que todo suceda. Es maravilloso. Me gusta pensar que ha hecho algo grandioso pero pocos ve los resultados
y muchos los aprecian, Agradezco su atención al sitio
web de mis 100 supuestos poemas, de más de 50 años: ericchaet.wordpress.com. Hacia el final del menú, hay una página llamada The Turnaround Artist, en la
que cuento algo de lo poco que he logrado Hasta ahora que Josepoh publica lgo de mi obra, Le agradezco mucho porque si alguien vive ocupado, es
él- . Creo que lo que hace es extraordinario, Eric
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