Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
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Caricatures
by
Luis Benitez
They are found wherever there is an emptiness.
The solitary seats do not dispirit them.
They lie in wait for each century.
They are, in fact, the ones
who push time towards us
now and then in the stillness of a photograph
where four or five men talk about butterflies
one or two of them visibly concealed
in the eternal eventide of all Sun-days.
But how persuaded they feel of being
what other creatures are.
“Like the dead when they feign to be asleep.”
Something whispers to them from the dust
inaudible, intangible. They play a role
these creatures who have become caricatures
of themselves like the small twig ignorant
of its being a tree. Bound to perpetuate such
an arbitrary trend of events it is perhaps
to them and only them to whom
we owe the placid rotation of the world.
Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)
Luis Benitez
Luis Benitez
Argentina
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Istanbul Literary Review - September 2011 Edition (#21)