Telexistir o no telexistir
He ahí la cuestión
To tele exist or not
that is the question
Madre Internet
sálvanos de las huellas
borra todo vestigio
danos el descanso del olvido
elimina nuestro Facebook
para siempre
Mother Internet
save us from the footprints
wipe away all vestiges
give us the peace of forgetting
eliminate our Facebook for ever
Vivir en las ondas
esparcida
en la brillante pantalla
del computador
Náufraga del Reino de las Redes aSociales
To live in the waves
spread out
on the brilliant
computer screen
The Kingdom of the Asocial Networks Sinks.
Amo todo lo que va a morir
me fascino en lo precario de mi estadía
en mi paso superfluo por la tierra
en el paraíso artificial de mi memoria USB
I love everything that is going to die
am fascinated by the precarious state
of my superfluous passage on Earth
the artificial paradise of my USB memory stick.
Indran Amirthanayagam writes poetry in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Haitian Creole. He is the author of twenty three books of poetry and poetry in translation, including Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia, Blue Window (Dialogos Books) The Migrant States (Hanging Loose Press 2020),Coconuts on Mars (Paperwall, 2019), Uncivil War (Mawenzi House (formerly TSAR), Canada, 2013), and the Paterson Prize-winning The Elephants of Reckoning (Hanging Loose, 1993). Amirthanayagam is a 2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts fellow in poetry, and a past fellow of the New York Foundation for the Arts, the US/Mexico Fund for Culture, and the MacDowell Colony. He edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly; curates the reading series Poetry at Beltway Editions, and publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions. He serves on the Board of DC-ALT. His blog is http://indranamirthanayagam.blogspot.com
Gladys Mendía (Venezuela, 1975) Writer and editor. Her books: El tiempo es la herida que gotea (2009); El alcohol de los estados intermedios (2009, 2010, 2011, 2020); La silenciosa desesperación del sueño (2010, 2020); La grita (2011, 2020); Inquietantes dislocaciones del pulso (2012, 2014, 2018, 2020); El cantar de los manglares (2018, 2019, 2020); Desde la ventana del sótano (2021). Her most recent book is Telemática (2021). She is the founding editor of the LP5 Literature and Arts Magazine: http://lp5.cl/. The blog: http://lp5blog.blogspot.com/ and the publisher: https://lp5editora.blogspot.com/ since 2004.