
CONTEMPLACION VS. ACTO / CONTEMPLATION VS. ACT
By Yanira Marimón Translated by Margaret Randall
Every year, on the same date
to V.F.
I never wanted to be just one among multitudes. My delusional eyes were accustomed to being spectators at an endless raging circus.I remember it: my feet obeyed the delirious rhythm.Someone shouted: A little faster! Imperiously(or another sort of violence).The truth is I was there without being there.And then I heard strange phrases for the first time:“Coerced freedom, purchased at the fair’s bargain price.”
Only the doves’ sudden flight brought me back to myselfelevated me.