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| Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994) |
Tienes que follarte a muchas mujeres
bellas mujeres
y escribir unos pocos poemas de amor decentes
y no te preocupes por la edad
y/o los nuevos talentos.
Sólo toma más cerveza más y más cerveza.
Ve al hipódromo por lo menos una vez
a la semana
y gana
si es posible.
Aprender a ganar es difícil,
cualquier idiota puede ser un buen perdedor.
Y no olvides tu Brahms,
tu Bach y tu
cerveza.
No te exijas.
Duerme hasta el mediodía.
Evita las tarjetas de crédito
o pagar cualquier cosa en término.
Acuérdate de que no hay un pedazo de culo
en este mundo que valga más de 50 dólares
(en 1977).
Y si tienes capacidad de amar
ámate a ti mismo primero
pero siempre sé consciente de la posibilidad de
la total derrota
ya sea por buenas o malas razones.
Un sabor temprano de la muerte no es necesariamente
una mala cosa.
Quédate afuera de las iglesias y los bares y los museos
y como las araña sé
paciente,
el tiempo es la cruz de todos.
Más
el exilio
la derrota
la traición
toda esa basura.
Quédate con la cerveza
la cerveza es continua sangre.
Una amante continua.
Agarra una buena máquina de escribir
y mientras los pasos van y vienen
más allá de tu ventana
dale duro a esa cosa
dale duro.
Haz de eso una pelea de peso pesado.
Haz como el toro en la primera embestida.
Y recuerda a los perros viejos,
que pelearon tan bien:
Hemingway, Celine, Dostoievsky, Hamsun.
Si crees que no se volvieron locos en habitaciones minúsculas
como te está pasando a ti ahora,
sin mujeres
sin comida
sin esperanza...
entonces no estás listo
toma más cerveza.
Hay tiempo.
Y si no hay
está bien
igual.
De Peleando a la contra (recopilación de 1995)
You’ve got to fuck a great many women
beautiful women
and write a few decent love poems.
and don’t worry about age
and/or freshly-arrived talents.
just drink more beer
more and more beer
and attend the racetrack at least once a
week
and win
if possible
learning to win is hard -
any slob can be a good loser.
and don’t forget your Brahms
and your Bach and your
beer.
don’t overexercise.
sleep until moon.
avoid paying credit cards
or paying for anything on
time.
remember that there isn’t a piece of ass
in this world over $50
(in 1977).
and if you have the ability to love
love yourself first
but always be aware of the possibility of
total defeat
whether the reason for that defeat
seems right or wrong -
an early taste of death is not necessarily
a bad thing.
stay out of churches and bars and museums,
and like the spider be
patient -
time is everybody’s cross,
plus
exile
defeat
treachery
all that dross.
stay with the beer.
beer is continuous blood.
a continuous lover.
get a large typewriter
and as the footsteps go up and down
outside your window
hit that thing
hit it hard
make it a heavyweight fight
make it the bull when he first charges in
and remember the old dogs
who fought so well:
Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun.
If you think they didn’t go crazy
in tiny rooms
just like you’re doing now
without women
without food
without hope
then you’re not ready.
drink more beer.
there’s time.
and if there’s not
that’s all right
too.
You’ve got to fuck a great many women
beautiful women
and write a few decent love poems.
and don’t worry about age
and/or freshly-arrived talents.
just drink more beer
more and more beer
and attend the racetrack at least once a
week
and win
if possible
learning to win is hard -
any slob can be a good loser.
and don’t forget your Brahms
and your Bach and your
beer.
don’t overexercise.
sleep until moon.
avoid paying credit cards
or paying for anything on
time.
remember that there isn’t a piece of ass
in this world over $50
(in 1977).
and if you have the ability to love
love yourself first
but always be aware of the possibility of
total defeat
whether the reason for that defeat
seems right or wrong -
an early taste of death is not necessarily
a bad thing.
stay out of churches and bars and museums,
and like the spider be
patient -
time is everybody’s cross,
plus
exile
defeat
treachery
all that dross.
stay with the beer.
beer is continuous blood.
a continuous lover.
get a large typewriter
and as the footsteps go up and down
outside your window
hit that thing
hit it hard
make it a heavyweight fight
make it the bull when he first charges in
and remember the old dogs
who fought so well:
Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun.
If you think they didn’t go crazy
in tiny rooms
just like you’re doing now
without women
without food
without hope
then you’re not ready.
drink more beer.
there’s time.
and if there’s not
that’s all right
too.
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