Some languages, like Sanskrit,
don't use spaces between words. We do.
In the West, we leave spaces between words.
Or rather, in the West, we write spaces between
words. It seems as if there were nothing there.
Empty plots, fields without weeds, without stones, without anything.
But if we zoom in
we discover that there are cemeteries between words.
Between word and word, we throw our dead,
we drop our murdered.
Language is an immense extermination camp
Haphazardly cut by signs that say, for example,
hunger, shotgun, bread, rent, university, blood,
assassin soldier, democracy, dogs, and among those signs,
as we said, cemeteries.
Western language. Chilean language. The Ecuadorian language,
the Argentine language, any of our languages
behaves in the same way as musical language,
when there is silence it seems as if nothing happens and yet
without silence there would be no music.
the cemeteries that separate the words are those silences.
if we put our ear close to the poem we will hear the
breathing of the dead among the shouting of the words.