You can say anything you want, yes sir, but it's
the goals that sing, they soar and descend... I bow to them... I love
them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite into them, I melt them
down... I love words so much... The unexpected ones... The ones I wait
for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop... Vowels I love... They glitter like
colored stones, they leap like silver fish, they are foam, thread,
metal, dew... I run after certain goals.. They are so beautiful that I want to fit them
all into my poem... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I
trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they
have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like
fruit, like algae, like agates, like olives... And then I stir them, I
shake them, I drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them, I let them go... I leave them in my poem like stalactites, like
slivers of polished wood, like coals, pickings from a shipwreck, gifts
from the waves... Everything exists in the goals... An idea goes
through a complete change because one word shifted its place, or because another settled down like a spoiled little thing inside a phrase that was not expecting her but obeys her...They have shadow, transparence, weight, feathers, hair, and everything they gathered from
so much rolling down the river, from so much wandering from country to country, from being roots so long... They are very ancient
and very new...They live in the bier, hidden away, and in the budding flower... What a great language I have, it's a fine language we
inherited from the fierce conquistadors...They strode over the giant cordilleras, over the rugged America, hunting for potatoes, sausages,
beans, black tobacco, gold, corn fried eggs, with a voracious appetite not found in the world since then... They swallowed up
everything, religion, pyramids, tribes, idolatries just like the ones
they brought along in their huge sacks...Wherever they went, they razed the
land... But goals fell like pebbles out of the boots of the barbarians, out of their beards, their helmets, their horseshoes,
luminous words that were left glittering here... our language. We came
up