Las sagradas escrituras de la "Iglesia Universal del Zoológico de Dios" ó "Pare de Mamar", donde se asientan los dogmas de tan peculiar religion, están asentadas en un poema dividido en 9 partes (una introducción, siete momentos y una conclusión); escritas en lengua inglesa. En este post develaré la introducción y el primer momento. ENJOY
The Flight of Icarus
FALL AND FLIGHT
The Sun breathes, beats like a heart, throbs like a
Nerve. It swells like a penis. It shrinks like a lung.
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Shivering light shatters on the sea, scatters ten
Billon sequins – gold raining upward—and drowns the merchant
Ship that creeps, buglike, across the fevered folds of an
Insomniac sheet.
The sea makes its bed and does not sleep in it.
The sun never sleeps.
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The sea quakes. The Sun quivers.
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The Sun drowns no less than the sea. The sea burns
No less than the Sun.
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Water is molten ice.
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Water dropped from the Sun. Water rose from volcanoes.
All water is blazing.
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Ra! Helios! Mazda! Grant us Audacity!
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For it rains upon the volcano,
For the olive ripens the thighs of the volcano.
For flies drink at the crater’s lip.
For peasants break the lava.
For worms creep through the ash.
For nymphs and satyrs frolic in the furnace where bread
Bakes and the grape drips and bones are turned into almond
trees.
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Sun and water rain equally upon the volcano.
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The volcano convulses the sea. Slime leaps to the Sun;
Ooze moves
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Existence glides from fire to water, from water to fire.
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Now: a boy falls out of the Sun. Beneath, the burning sea.
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The Universe is tumbling through his head.
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The Sun swims above.
The sky blinks. The ship sails. The almond blooms. And the
Sea hurtles up from its bed to greet the sudden son.
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Between water and water.
Fire and fire.
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Now
LEVIATHANS
The First Moment.
Earth is an egg forever about to hatch.
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Earth is full of monsters. The ant is a dragon to the
Greenfly.
The greenfly is a beast on the grass.
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Earth is a laboratory in which Creation toils extremely at
The edge of Reality.
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Creation is seeking Reality.
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All monsters are experiments in the form of Reality.
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What is wrong with the two-headed toad is that neither
Head thinks.
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Life is impossible. Creation specializes in impossibility.
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The laws of physics prove that neither elephants nor Man
Can fly.
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The creation of the first amoeba was an achievement greater
Than the extinction of the dinosaurs. The first amoeba was impossible.
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Life raped inert matter. Pity, then, the shock suffered by
Pointless atoms. The shock is our own.
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Creation knows nothing but extremes and adores equally the
Virus and the Tyranossaurus rex.
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The first cell that learned to divide accomplished an act
More astounding than all subsequent life. The first cell was
Impossible.
The first cell was a monster.
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The Devonian seas were patrolled by scorpions twenty metres
Long. These perished because they were not great enough for
The future.
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Between the extreme edge of the Universe and the extreme
Centre exists nothing but the extreme.
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Nature abhors moderation. Nature is extravagant and
Prodigal. It neither saves nor spares.
Let us follow Nature.
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There is a spider so monstrous that, in order to mate, she
Must spin a bauble to dangle coyly before the timid, tiny male.
Enticed by such shining promise, the male scurries into her web
Where, stroked by her seductive legs, he copulate with this
Mother of his species.
Their joys completed, then she consumes him, throwing away
His shriveled shell and her courting gift together. She will
Not have rubbish lying about her web.
All males of this species are virgin.
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How elegant the spider displays Nature’s economy and delicate
Sense of fun
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The forelimbs of Tyrannosaurus rex withered because he
Was not yet ready to write.
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The first ape that grasped stone and chipped it was a
Genius equal to Pythagoras.
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Innocence belongs to the beasts.
Innocence resides in no sense.
Injured innocence is a wounded panther.
