woensdag 23 januari 2013

Power Politics in the Mini

Never have I felt such a toxic mix of shame, rage, and vulnerability.

I don’t know what to say, what to do.
I am so pissed off I’ve been pissed over. And still have to be grateful.
You have taken opportune advantage of my unfortunate situation.
My ego leaves no room for misplaced attacks composed of sheer bullshit.
Accumulated irritations and outright threats.
You want me out? I’m out. Now, in the snow.
Fortunately, I’d rather turn into an icicle than put up with your presence one second longer.
Overstayed my welcome. Thanks for letting me know so inconsiderately overdue.
Ciao old lady, see you never.
Hope those flowers don’t ruin the stench of your egocentrism, or, excuse me, amiable charity.

dinsdag 23 augustus 2011

Take Me

Fictive Short 17 August 2011.


When his hands touch mine they shiver, shrug, I rapidly take them back as if he were to take them all and with them my wrists, arms, my entire body. To possess me and come into me like I was his. I was his.

It’s hard to deny I didn’t somehow know what I would become, or what would become of me.

All is gone.
Was it ever there?
What is the difference between love and desire?

How can I make tangible his lips, skin, so warm and strong… his soft, yet scarred hands, and his love for kissing me in the neck while he cups my ears (he says it makes me twitch in a funny way).

Now he sits there, numbed and stupid, a girl on his lap.
Ray told me to have my go, we secretly bet if I’d get a girl he’d lay off me tonight. The music sways and I have one by the waist. She moves wonderfully, and I’m getting carried away observing her dancing hair and perky breasts. I slowly run my hands down to her nalgas and give them a gentle feel. Suddenly she hurls back and gives me a what-the-fuck look.
She says “you’re just a putito” her red lips spit it out, especially the t’s in putito, with exaggerated disgust. “Did you seriously think you could have me?”
Then Tony looks at me and grins. That’s not good.
I try to convince her by kind of smiling and nodding my head not to carry on calling me out. Just keep moving, it’ll pass. But she’s not having it. Fuck. She’s actually laughing out loud, clapping, and then smiles at Tony, blowing him an air-kiss. The others start grinning too, looking at me like they could all have me right then and there. The point of denying my willingness has far passed and I know they’re preparing to strike. I’m just standing there like an idiot for believing Ray I could actually get a girl without turning into one.
“Lost your tongue putito? Hmm? Oh, this is nice!” She’s still laughing and hugs then kisses some guy that had come to stand beside her. He glances over at me biting his lip. Then Tony’s in front of me, grabbing at my shirt. My stomach knots on the thought of his… his hard hands and uncompromising desire to hurt me. I flash him a glance. He’s already getting into it.
Escape is impossible.
The world crumbles.
It always does.

This always happens. Chago looks away. Ray’s sniffling. Tony doesn’t say anything, he doesn’t need to, I know what he’ll do.
There’s no preparing for impact like his.
It’s all just blood and shit. He gets off on ripping me apart.
He holds my head down while he violently thrusts away.
I can hardly breathe, I’m too ashamed to, I don’t know why. They all know this is what I am anyway. I’m ashamed to be the fucking puto in a room full of trigger-happy gangsters, murderous, violent druggies. All of them with reps as long the list of guys who’ve had me. But they’ve all had me. Most of them at least. Yet they can just sit there and actually not give a shit about how Tony’s turning me out, and later on be such sweet, caring lovers alone with them in bed. How do they do that? Why can’t I do that? Why was it absolutely ridiculous for me in the first place to believe I could have a girl?
When he comes he takes it out, and I fall over from leaning on him. “What do messicuns do best hmm?” He asks, grabbing me by the face and moving it towards his groin. His dick is smaller but swollen, it pulses with my blood and shit and his semen on it. “What do you messicuns do best?” he repeats. Everybody’s laughing. “Open your mouth,” he orders.
“Please,” I’m begging, this is too much. I can’t do this. I can’t. Please go away. Please don’t make me clean it. Tears come I can’t stop and I’m so ashamed I want the floor to swallow me and disappear into black oblivion.
He tugs at my hair, pulling my face towards my job, he yanks at my head ‘cause I’m resisting and squashes his dick against my face. “Clean it!” He’s screaming and the laughter stops. Before I can change my mind to do my job his knee’s under my jaw, jabbing my teeth through the lip I was biting. As I’m on the floor kicks to my face, ass, and stomach follow. Not just two feet but four, six, maybe ten of them feasting on me. I hadn’t even had the time to pull my jeans back up.
Ray’s grinning, he enjoys leading by awarding his guys some 'fun' every once in a while. At whatever cost. Just before my ears start buzzing I hear him say “Okay homes that’s enough,” and he pulls them back and they obey, laughing, getting back on their chairs and sofa’s, bragging.


That night Ray held me like a baby so gently. His beady eyes turned soft and he watched over me, kissing my bruises and the scratches from trying to clean myself too hard. He softly tries to kiss my lips. I let him. He can run his hands all over me and we kiss intensely and his tongue is playful and seeks to comfort me, to apologize. Even when his young man gets up he leaves him be and cuddles me without trying to convince me to let him in. His arms are warm.


Fictive Short 17 August 2011.

woensdag 24 november 2010

The Park


Fictive short - 24 Nov 2010.

His hands are sweaty, his back is arched, his eyes are filled with rage - the internal kind, the repentive, dirty, rotting kind - and he yells at his client "Fucking disgusting motherfucker!" Wiping his mouth, with repudiance, no, with teary disgust at the man he must have just passed moments with in one of the many cars that pull up to him every night.

From where I´m standing I can see him raging at the trees, the curb, the closed newspaperstand. He keeps wiping his mouth, raising his hands, yelling at the others that always stand there with him. Hiding his sad loneliness behind an aggressive rage. I know he´ll come to me for consolation in about a minute or two. After he´s plunged his fist in the dirt he´ll come here, hands in his pockets, nervously looking side to side but strung on getting here for some hugs and kisses. Shiny, colorful ones marked x and o - just like his eyes - one closed and the other open."


dinsdag 13 oktober 2009

La Era Esta Pariendo un Corazon

Le he preguntado a mi sombra
a ver como ando para reirme,
mientras el llanto, con voz de templo,
rompe en la sala regando el tiempo.

Mi sombra dice que reirse
es ver los llantos como mi llanto,
y me he callado, desesperado,
y escucho entonces: la tierra llora.

La era esta pariendo un corazon,
no puede mas, se muere de dolor
y hay que acudir corriendo
pues se cae el porvenir.

La era esta pariendo un corazon,
no puede mas, se muere de dolor
y hay que acudir corriendo
pues se cae el porvenir
en cualquier selva del mundo,
en cualquier calle.

Debo dejar la casa y el sillon,
la madre vive hasta que muere el sol,
y hay que quemar el cielo si es preciso
por vivir.

Debo dejar la casa y el sillon,
la madre vive hasta que muere el sol,
y hay que quemar el cielo si es preciso
por vivir, por cualquier hombre del mundo,
por cualquier casa. Por cualquier casa.

- Silvio Rodriguez

zaterdag 7 februari 2009

...


"I just felt an immense silence. Heavy. Falling between the two of us. His eyes went red, angry, confused, unknowing... His hands trembled and his back straightned. I realized he couldn't solve my problems, he didn't know how to, he never knew, and he'd always pretended to be and know everything he was and knew. This man wasn't the father I had known, Zero Tolerance, Iron Handed. I wanted to hug him, to tell him everything would be okay, but as any wolf in sheep's clothes he bit his last words at me before slamming the door behind him - like a stab you don't feel 'til the knife comes out, just like that, violent and bitter, with a thief's face. The thief of my childhood, mask of my youth. 'Yeah', I thought, 'what youth, why don't you get lost after everything you did to ME', self-destroying before he destroys me, sitting there with my jaws jammed, swallowing tears, knowing that at the other side of that door he was hugging his little girl like he never would have hugged me, that's called looking for love where you'll never find it."
Fictive short, 26 Jan 2007.

Drawing "Santiago", paper and pencil 2 Jan 2006.


Pequeñita Introducción

"¿Qué les queda por probar a los jóvenes
en este mundo de paciencia y asco?
¿sólo grafitti? ¿rock? ¿escepticismo?
también les queda no decir amén
no dejar que les maten el amor
recuperar el habla y la utopía
ser jóvenes sin prisa y con memoria
situarse en una historia que es la suya
no convertirse en viejos prematuros

¿qué les queda por probar a los jóvenes
en este mundo de rutina y ruina?
¿cocaína? ¿cerveza? ¿barras bravas?
les queda respirar / abrir los ojos
descubrir las raíces del horror
inventar paz así sea a ponchazos
entenderse con la naturaleza
y con la lluvia y los relámpagos
y con el sentimiento y con la muerte
esa loca de atar y desatar

¿qué les queda por probar a los jóvenes
en este mundo de consumo y humo?
¿vértigo? ¿asaltos? ¿discotecas?
también les queda discutir con dios
tanto si existe como si no existe
tender manos que ayudan / abrir puertas
entre el corazón propio y el ajeno
sobre todo les queda hacer futuro
a pesar de los ruines de pasado
y los sabios granujas del presente.

Mario Benedetti