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The flower

from Rip Rap - 2007 by Oscar Carballo

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In Back of the Real
(Howl and other poems, 1954)
Allen Ginsberg
Traducción: Bárbara Belloc

railroad yard in San Jose
I wandered desolate
in front of a tank factory
and sat on a bench
near the switchman's shack.

A flower lay on the hay on
the asphalt highway
—the dread hay flower
I thought—. It had a
brittle black stem and
corolla of yellowish dirty
spikes like Jesus' inchlong
crown, and a soiled
dry center cotton tuft
like a used shaving brush
that's been lying under
the garage for a year.

Yellow, yellow flower, and
flower of industry,
tough spiky ugly flower,
flower nonetheless,
with the form of the great yellow
Rose in your brain!
This is the flower of the World.


Detrás de lo real

cruce ferroviario en San José
anduve (caminando) desolado
frente a una fábrica de tanques
y me senté en un banco
cerca del puesto del guardabarrera.

Una flor se alza en el pasto en
la ruta asfaltada
—la flor del yuyo del hartazgo,
pensé—. Tenía
el tallo negro quebradizo y
una corola de espigas amarillo
sucio como las púas de la espina
de Cristo, en el centro
un penacho de algodón pardo y seco
como una brocha usada
que pasó un año
en una caja en el garage.

¡Amarilla flor, amarilla y
flor de la industria,
dura flor pinchuda y fea
flor, no obstante,
con la forma de la gran y áurea
rosa en tu cerebro!
Esta es la flor del Mundo.

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from Rip Rap - 2007, released January 1, 2007

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Oscar Carballo Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires, Argentina

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