My Worst Love Poems: And the answer comes that not any more

And the answer comes that not any more, not sitting down or standing up or anything, there’s nothing there, not the ice, not even the thinnest of ice – not even the cold.  There’s nobody there, I hear. The proposition is impossible.  (It was always there as a suggestion.)  Cold and Fire are on either side.  Pissed, they stare at each other.  Intestines in my throat, the trapped cords, vowels strangle vowels. Seeing them: playing with my text, among my letters, inside my body. How to make it so you don’t feel, all over again, all this?  How not to tumble into the mangle of sensation?  There is tide in my womb, trapped sea crashing against the thin walls of flesh.                               Crash
                               Crash
                               Crash
                               Crash, the ball moves from hand to hand.          They’re playing: I can see them.
                                                                                                                             They’re playing: I can’t breathe.
                                                                                                                                                             Him?
The Man, different in each one of the Women.  Retching, from the tip of the toes to the tip of the tongue: spasms: will the exorcism be carried out at last?  I close my eyes.  I watch (They do not see me) I see (and why? how does one change) I shrink, I fold myself up, concentrating, if I   could only at last reflect myself
infinitely                                                onto my reflections               a a a a a n n n d d d d M I S T
                                                                                                                             among them
                                                                                                             hanging out                don’t
                                                                                                                                                             they feel?
                                                                                                                                                             don’t they see?
                                                                                              that they draw me and quarter me
                                                                              that now I’m not leaving
                                                               that now where am I going
                               that now what I am doing trips me up, traps me in, now that
                I can’t hide any longer no longer no longer I no longer know
what can be done with the world, then?
him
         great earthquake
                                               (stupefaction) stupefaction (what toupée what action)
                                                               and how stupefying, how brazen
                                                                              to be                                      
                                                                                               me
                                                               how can I make life
                                                               how can I make it
out
                                                                                              of here
for you against you this feminine world that asphyxiates me that I don’t know but that I have and so I go barefaced face slashed while the hole within me floods, left smashed in
                by you
without speaking
really
don’t invent don’t want
what you’re not
you’re not
you don’t have
you always were
you never will be
you will tell me
it’s shut                   up
and I don’t
believe you don’t know
remember?
nooooooooooooo
you remember when
                you
                I             
                that
                was
say it
really say it
the way you like it
lie away
lie in wait
and I am not resisting
this rupture
it’s the right time
right?

I am no machine
I cannot reproduce
I don’t know how to act
I act

I cannot act
And she can and she can
They play
They lie
They don’t know
–my brain is putting its feet up
it is laughing at me–
in films
everything happens so fast
around here
–lamentable, flat–
no.  Let me summarise: ten years passed and she didn’t feel anything.

Ten long nights passed, it still hurts and I don’t know if it’s going to end.

***

Me contesta que ya no, que no está parado ni sentado ni nada, ya no está, ni el hielo ni lo fino ni el frío. Ya no está, me dice. La proposición es imposible. Siempre fue pensada como propuesta. Frío y Fuego están de un lado y del otro. De orto se miran, irascibles. Las tripas en la garganta, las cuerdas atrapadas, las vocales se ahorcan una a una.  Verlas: jugando con mi texto, entre mis letras, adentro de mi cuerpo. ¿Cómo hacer para no sentir, de nuevo, esto? ¿Cómo no caer en el remolino de la sensación? Hay marea en mi vientre mar atrapado golpeando contra las paredes delgadas de carne.                 Golpea
                                               Golpea
                                               Golpea
                                               Golpea la pelota pasando de mano en mano.       Ellas juegan: Yo miro.
                                                                                                                                             Ellas juegan: Yo muero.
                                                                                                                                                             ¿Él?
Él distinto en cada una de Ellas. Arcadas, desde la punta del pie hasta la punta de la lengua: espasmos: ¿se realizará finalmente el exorcismo? Cierro los ojos. Yo miro (Ellas no me ven) Yo veo (y para qué, cómo cambiar) me achico, me enrollo, si por fin pudiera concentrarme tanto, recursionarme tanto y y y y y y y B R U M A
                                                                              entre ellas
                                                                                              juegan         ¿no
                                                                                                                              sienten?
                                                                                                                             ¿no ven?
                                                                                       que me descuartizan
                                                                              que ahora no me voy
                                                               que ahora adónde voy
                                               que ahora qué hago me trabo traumo ya
                ya no me puedo esconder ya no ya no ya no no sé
¿qué hacer con el mundo entonces?
él
      gran temblor
                               (estupefacción) estupefacción (qué tupé)
                                               qué estupefaciente descaro
                                                                      ser
                                                                                 yo
                                               cómo hago la vida
cómo salgo
                               de acá
por vos contra vos este mundo femenino que me asfixia que no sé pero tengo y así voy sin cara rajada y mi agujero más grande se empantana partido por vos
sin hablar
de verdad
no ficticies no quieras
lo que no sos
no sos
no tenés
siempre fuiste
nunca serás
me dirás
¡barrote!
y no
creo que no sabés
¿te acordás?
noooooooooooo
te acordás cuando
         vos
         yo
         eso
         era
decílo
decílo de verdad
cómo te gusta
la mentira
la trampa
y yo no resiste
esta ruptura
está en el tiempo  justo
¿no?

No puedo ser máquina
No puedo reproducirme
No sé actuar
Actúo

No puedo actuarme
Ellas sí
Ellas juegan
Ellas mienten
Ellas no saben
–mi cerebro se arrellana
se ríe de mí–
en las películas
todo sucede tan rápido
acá
–lamentable plano–
no.  Me gustaría resumir: Pasaron diez años y ella no siente nada.
Pasaron diez largas noches, todavía duelo y no sé si acabará.

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