WEBVTT NOTE Created by CaptionSync from Automatic Sync Technologies www.automaticsync.com 00:00:00.866 --> 00:00:06.996 align:middle >> This next poem belongs to a book called Contracorriente and this book is -- 00:00:07.116 --> 00:00:08.576 align:middle Each letter has a letter of the alphabet. 00:00:09.706 --> 00:00:13.566 align:middle It's very one of the -- It's a difficult book to explain. 00:00:13.566 --> 00:00:17.276 align:middle It started as a kind of a book written for broader minds, 00:00:18.186 --> 00:00:23.586 align:middle who is in a sense a lost soul or a very strange character. 00:00:24.326 --> 00:00:28.806 align:middle And it started as a poem for him and then it became something else. 00:00:29.176 --> 00:00:34.236 align:middle And it became a - A poem about water and it became a poem where water is the vehicle 00:00:34.326 --> 00:00:40.876 align:middle for words and it became a poem about everything that can come, everything that is thrown 00:00:40.876 --> 00:00:45.086 align:middle around about garbage, about birds, about words that can be garbage, about messages 00:00:45.586 --> 00:00:49.476 align:middle and everything started jumping into this poem and jumping out of this poem. 00:00:50.086 --> 00:00:51.976 align:middle And so, it's hard to explain. 00:00:51.976 --> 00:00:57.496 align:middle It's more -- It's something that you would namely explains itself while it's read 00:00:57.496 --> 00:01:01.426 align:middle but then it's forgotten once you stop reading it. 00:01:01.426 --> 00:01:06.286 align:middle So this is the letter y, it's one of the shorter ones and it has an epic rhyme 00:01:06.326 --> 00:01:12.386 align:middle by Federico García Lorca which says y el agua harapienta de los pies secos. 00:01:15.046 --> 00:01:20.536 align:middle Óyelo, hermano, cómo se madreperla oblicuando su filón de granito en las zonas bajas, 00:01:21.336 --> 00:01:25.276 align:middle cómo se corusca, se arrisca, se lastima, va de lengua. 00:01:25.276 --> 00:01:29.596 align:middle En idiomatismo retumbando por el surco con su forma de roca. 00:01:29.596 --> 00:01:35.876 align:middle En rumbo, cómo se desempieza al organizar otro principio, cantarino. 00:01:35.876 --> 00:01:41.616 align:middle En loma ajena, mudando ovejas por tramo de calles, cuánto bala, 00:01:41.816 --> 00:01:46.716 align:middle hermano de nítidas causas, oye y defínelo en consecuencia, 00:01:47.416 --> 00:01:53.266 align:middle ¿amaga el orto o es mera luz de nuevo en el matadero?, agua a contrapelo, 00:01:53.796 --> 00:01:59.196 align:middle hocico a tiempo para el despilfarro, los ríos de la sangre no corren así, 00:01:59.756 --> 00:02:02.966 align:middle según mi libro de ciencia, ah, realista, 00:02:03.586 --> 00:02:08.406 align:middle yo desplumé por paja a mi gallo trashumante y luego, náyade al fin, 00:02:09.136 --> 00:02:16.686 align:middle gane corriente en calidad de ofrenda, quizás engañe pero conmisero, tanto sol por metáfora, 00:02:17.126 --> 00:02:23.576 align:middle sensible sol, no caduca con los hechos, aunque duela el renco tedio de su belleza. 00:02:23.576 --> 00:02:29.766 align:middle A mediodía, cuando toco el vidrio empalmado con la figura más cercana, y me digo, 00:02:30.186 --> 00:02:36.646 align:middle se siente la fría, blanca, muda merma de la materia, va siendo hora, niña severa, 00:02:37.186 --> 00:02:44.006 align:middle de entrometer la pasión donde sólo raya el día, lo aconsejan amigos, tregua del cálculo, 00:02:44.456 --> 00:02:47.536 align:middle que nadie se engaste en aquel nicho de los sentidos, 00:02:48.146 --> 00:02:52.656 align:middle cancelando mi pretexto para un ambiguo conocimiento de cualquier barbarie, 00:02:53.336 --> 00:02:58.606 align:middle no vaya a faltar cuerda para enredar mi escepticismo con fórmulas socarronas. 00:02:59.236 --> 00:03:05.166 align:middle Divísame hermano, hay hados silvestres en esta banqueta o la moraleja es otra. 00:03:05.876 --> 00:03:09.106 align:middle Por la razón se comparte un mínimo indicio de odio. 00:03:09.606 --> 00:03:12.296 align:middle Yo peco por tí, el prójimo lo sabe. 00:03:12.966 --> 00:03:17.176 align:middle One thing I didn't mention about this book is that all the poems are separated. 00:03:17.176 --> 00:03:20.626 align:middle They're very long lines and it's only separated by commas. 00:03:20.736 --> 00:03:24.186 align:middle So it's hard, especially if you're a smoker. 00:03:24.486 --> 00:03:28.106 align:middle It's hard to read out loud and finish the lines [inaudible] commas. 00:03:43.516 --> 00:03:45.596 align:middle [ Inaudible ] 00:03:46.096 --> 00:03:51.356 align:middle >> Y. And the water dressed in rags but with dry feet. 00:03:52.106 --> 00:03:53.686 align:middle Federico García Lorca. 00:03:56.126 --> 00:03:59.726 align:middle Listen, brother, how the mother of pearls slanting its granite vein 00:04:00.046 --> 00:04:05.666 align:middle into the low zones, how it leaps the crags, suffers wounds, spouts idioms, 00:04:06.156 --> 00:04:08.696 align:middle roaring through the furrow like a rock on course. 00:04:09.086 --> 00:04:13.486 align:middle How it unbegins arranging another beginning, babbles on a hill belonging 00:04:13.486 --> 00:04:16.296 align:middle to another herding sheep on the stretch of street, 00:04:16.716 --> 00:04:19.226 align:middle so much bleeding, brother, of clear causes. 00:04:19.526 --> 00:04:24.136 align:middle Listen, and then make your definitions in a pending sunrise or just more light 00:04:24.206 --> 00:04:28.866 align:middle in the slaughterhouse, water against the grain, muzzle in time to squander, 00:04:29.416 --> 00:04:34.446 align:middle rivers of blood don't flow that way or so says my science book, such a realist. 00:04:34.926 --> 00:04:39.546 align:middle If for no good reason I pluck my roaming rooster and then a naiad to the end, 00:04:40.066 --> 00:04:41.796 align:middle increase the current as an offering. 00:04:42.256 --> 00:04:46.336 align:middle I may mislead but I do commiserate so much metaphorical sun, 00:04:46.606 --> 00:04:49.456 align:middle sensitive sun that never expires with the facts, 00:04:49.946 --> 00:04:53.336 align:middle although at noon the hamstrung boredom of its beauty hurts. 00:04:53.856 --> 00:04:56.776 align:middle When I touch the window pane, joined to the nearest figure, 00:04:56.776 --> 00:05:02.266 align:middle I'd tell myself you can feel the cold, white, silent diminishment of matter. 00:05:02.916 --> 00:05:08.076 align:middle It's high time, severe daughter, to let passion intrude where only the day breaks. 00:05:08.526 --> 00:05:10.876 align:middle Friends advise it, cease calculating. 00:05:10.876 --> 00:05:13.686 align:middle No one should be embedded in that niche of sense, 00:05:14.066 --> 00:05:17.146 align:middle negating my excuse for any kind of barbarity. 00:05:17.146 --> 00:05:18.236 align:middle Ambiguously no. 00:05:18.646 --> 00:05:22.696 align:middle Don't forget the rope to entangle my skepticism with cunning formulae. 00:05:22.986 --> 00:05:24.176 align:middle Attend me, brother. 00:05:24.556 --> 00:05:29.676 align:middle The sidewalk breeds wild fates or else the moral changes through reason, 00:05:30.006 --> 00:05:32.266 align:middle the slightest trace of hatred is shared. 00:05:32.796 --> 00:05:34.716 align:middle I sinned for you, the others noticed.