In 1980, Silo Five exploded
in Ingeniero White. I had stored fifty thousand
tons of cereal, eighty percent of its capacity
at that moment. Ruins of that remained
And I do not know how
a truck with those remains
came home one day. It was recently that we lived there
the family was getting bigger,
housing too. Dad left the rubble
at the bottom of the patio and did not want
that we remove them. I was scared
that remains appear
of one of the twenty-two people who had died. There were
large pieces of wall and dust, and with a mace
I bit them — when I could — to make small rubble
for the construction of the new pieces. Sometimes he would leave us
help him and give us a hammer. Zizek says
among aircraft wrecks,
in the Mojave Desert: "Maybe
only something new can emerge
through failure. "
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