Happy New Year ....
Prepare the cards and the tarpaulins that we go away from this earth. Put in a lot anejo, a jen jen embalmed and a tobacco leaf. Detach the portrait of Che and give it to a tourist, now that is just a souvenir of the socialist dream.
R. Goracci
Autumn blacks hung from the branches of trees like a ripe fruit last in the pouring rain while the silence was accompanied through the streets narrow alleys of downtown, between the old houses and pastel-colored walls that dripped the colonial nostalgia. Smell cigars. The trolley
walked in docile white hand.
The mouth was made of smoke.
The door creaked in opening up the room, the few patrons looked up absently. The blades of the ceiling moving the moist air. A complessino granted in the tools.
rum into the glasses was the color of a warm embrace. The taste of a hot country proud, the men bent to cut sugar cane, of evenings spying on the moon between the palms.
"I ordered for you," he said to justify the two glasses.
She moved the chair and hung his coat and umbrella.
He put his face in his hands and smiled. Like certain Madonnas behind the altar.
Sipping rum into the glasses.
When they came out of the rain had only the puddles, while the sea stretched its waves on Malecon.
Havana, August, 10th 2010
The Big Island I walk into my hand while I yield to the lure of hope. Why do some places, some people are too quiet company in the folds of a map or in the signing of a plane ticket.
Cuba is one of those places. With its story that everyone believes in broad terms to know that some associate with clichés, which combined with other policy.
If I have to give a color to the island is green and not red.
If I have to give a face is Fidel, not Che.
island that he married and divorced continually with its contrasts, nature UNESCO, and an embargo that the crease for almost fifty years, poverty and decent five-star hotels, the bottle of rum leaning against the counter of the premises as we have the milk jug.
Walking Havana in the afternoon after the rain mixed with tourists, retracing the history of the past quarter-century colonial houses, among the cars that give the impression of a drunken back in time, rest at a table of Florida to enjoy a drink made of coconut and rum, retracing the eternal rivalry between coated and Amber Havana Club and Bacardi. A war made fascinating registered trademarks of the shadow of the endless work in the fields of sugar cane.
Out runs the old city, teeming with people, even in the rain.
I set out looking at the sky get lighter towards the sunset.
entrance overlooking a small street and look in the empty room of a restaurant: the blades of the ceiling buzz fast, some sitting at tables valet dry cutlery and place them in good order, keeping our eyes fixed on the TV. I stop by a couple of steps down and rest myself rapt by the images, Fidel Castro, green shirt of an ordinance, presented his latest book to a group of Venezuelan journalists, a woman, some men, one with the bandage over one eye. La victoria
estratégico, is the title of a volume of 900 pages, complete with photos, copies of documents, beyond the political beliefs or how you think, a piece of history.
For a moment I wonder if it's an old movie, but Fidel speaks of the recent fires that have hit Moscow.
The master follows the thread of his thoughts and says: "Communication is the weapon of revolution," setting out a "special period" the revolution, but also a great sacrifice.
I smile thinking about how the passage of time modifies the appearances, scoring a face of wrinkles, for example, but can not change the heart.
him, the man who fought for "Cuba libre ", rifles shouldered, inflaming the masses, surely making mistakes, and as he himself wrote," history will absolve me ", now fighting words to his own revolution, his battle against time. Evoking the past in the pages of his book, his life, from a letter from child to Roosevelt, to the days of the Pico Turquino.
Pages that flow through his fingers, one day after another, the time of remembrance, where the word is his weapon.
"My problem is the consensus of the time. The notion of time is gone. Time is an invention of man, "he says.
And I like to think that devoting the great achievements of law at the time they enter into the legend, are of the same material of myths.
For two hours, the Venezuelan channel transmits images of Fidel and his words.
observe the few customers still like me, standing in the doorway listening to the waiter sighs interspersed with words of what was a storyteller's thoughts. Although the airing of the interview will be blown up the daily installment of a South American telenovela.
As long as the journalist quoted the words of Fidel, television close remembering that time and have a space that has been largely overcome. Everyone laughs.
Seeing that it was evening.
The next morning on the Granma, the newspaper of Cuba, announcing the launch of the book of Fidel Castro. Jose Marti airport
purchase a copy of the book. Which has a weight, not only by the number of pages, but because it evokes day of death, fear, strife, somebody who believed that, "Yes, se puede"
A man who has not folded in a greatest war, where Cuba was a pawn.
And after 50 years, after UN 182 out of 191 countries voted against the embargo remained a cry unheeded, beyond what may be the political, in the comfort of our lives just suffer from what the TV door for a few minutes in our homes, the war in the gulf as a video game, to the dead in Haiti, the climatic upheavals at the fall of the twin towers, there is a place in the world that the will of a few years suffers from the yoke of the embargo.
is right for a country that someone decides, humiliating him and waiting for the fall of the Phoenix?
It's just that after the wall fell, after Mandela fought for human freedom, Cuba is still a political settlement?
No.
To this I say,
Viva Cuba Libre.
And that is freedom from the embargo.
We would keep a clear
tablecloth that I bought this with its simple design repetitive
dark purple flower not mentioned by any botanist
because it reminds me that dress you were wearing printed
the summer we met
(
a dress - you have always maintained - that
I never said that I liked).
Well, 'I liked you know.
I liked.
I liked a lot, there was you in
or not.
Andrew Motion
not had anything special because people stop to look, the simple dress caresses her body in an explosion of lavender flowers on white background.
Les champs de douches. Oil on canvas
He looked down towards the pier.
-What was willing to pick the flowers, one by one, like poppies in a wheat field when the summer is upon us.
Her hair down her bare shoulders, like heaven to enter into marriage within the sun rose on the facade of the cathedral and sit among flowers and candles, incense and kneeling at the foot of the altar of forgotten prayers. They forget.
While outside in the heat made it fragile and evanescent the contours of the landscape.
A picture faded, like old photos of the century.
A Montmartre.
The bell tower of the cathedral towered above the houses of the village and beyond cast a benevolent eye on the sea where the boats of the marina just waving.
She walked on the narrow walkway, leaving wet footprints behind her. That immediately vanished. Swallowed by the sun.
-As in his life, he thought.
joined him.
-Hello-just said.
-Hello-just said. Him
Then all was silent.
Dogs dozed in the shade of elm trees on the square.
Properties. The crickets chirped incessantly.
But you saw.
were invisible.
Like them. How
sky Bridal veil of falling stars. Disillusioned and descents.