Thursday, September 14, 2017

I, orc

Forbid you all to think
The world will go better if you don’t think.
It will all get easier.
You will all be happier.
It will rain when it should
The sun will be a conveniently
domesticated star.
Join the hoard
Abandon all attempts at
insubordination
Turn on the television
Devour the celebrity gossip
Live in the rubble
Show the monster inside of you:
nothing is more beautiful than to be
united in the rottenness
and the common
dismemberment.

Originally published in Spanish by Rosario Curiel, 20 October 2012