LA CARENCIA - A. PIZARNIK

Yo no sé de pájaros,
no conozco la historia del fuego.
Pero creo que mi soledad debería tener alas.

(Alejandra Pizarnik, de Las aventuras perdidas, 1958)

ADRIENNE RICH

El arte es nuestro derecho innato, el medio más poderoso de acceder a nuestra propia experiencia y vida imaginativa y a la de otras gentes. Al redescubrir y recuperar continuamente la humanidad de los seres humanos, el arte es crucial para la visión democrática. Un gobierno que se aleja más y más de la búsqueda de la democracia, verá cada vez menos "utilidad" en alentar a los artistas, considerará el arte una obscenidad o un engaño.

Art is our human birthright, our most powerful means of access to our own and another's experience and imaginative life. In continually rediscovering and recovering the humanity of human beings, art is crucial to the democratic vision. A government tending further and further away from the search for democracy will see less and less "use" in encouraging artists, will see art as obscenity or hoax.

DEAD MELODIES - BECK

Where will you go

When this day is over

A gambler's purse

Lays on the road

Straight to your door

Snakes have gone crazy tonight

Winding their way out of sight

A laugh, a joke

A sentiment wasted

Seasons of strangers

They've come and gone

Doldrums are pounding,

Cheapskates are clowning this town

Who could disown themselves now

Engineer, slow down this old train

Cinders and chaff

Laugh at the moon

Night birds will cackle

Rotting like apples on trees

Sending their dead melodies

To me