some languages, such as Sanskrit,
They do not use spaces between words. we do.
In the West we leave spaces between words.
rather, in the West we write spaces between
words. It seems like there was nothing there.
empty plots, fields without weeds, without stones, without anything.
but if we bring a magnifying glass
We discover that among the words there are cemeteries.
between word and word we throw our dead,
we drop our murdered ones.
language is an immense extermination field
cut randomly by signs that say, for example,
hunger, shotgun, bread, rent, university, blood,
murderous soldier, democracy, dogs and among those signs,
As we said, cemeteries.
the western language. the 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 like nothing is happening 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 words.