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Book signing in Bakersfield, CA in 2004.
"A society that reduces its life to economics
creates spiritual suicide."
Copyright 2009 (c). All rights reserved on written/spoken poetry. Rudy Calderón.
The Sealess Captain
I am the sealess captain.
I have my senses set in place
so I can understand the waves and
feel the oncoming thunderstorms,
but only throughout the mainland
since surrounding me are seas of
land, concrete, and blacktop.
I am the sealess captain.
Even with unmatched maritime skills,
I’ve been exiled in the desert.
My captain’s suit, each day, is
losing its courage.
I am the sealess captain.
In each instant, my mind
wrestles with whales
and courts new continents.
I awaken later
to sojourn alone in the
garden Gethsemane.
I am the sealess captain.
Like the oceans flow,
I direct solely the essential emotions
who are wicked laborers,
always trying to convolute the others. I travel up the stairs when they go down, I drink soda pop outside
the church of “Our Lady of Solitude,” what a melancholic name for an
institution of hope...
Mi río
Mi río es un río marrón,
colgando está mi optimismo de un cordón.
Mi río es arroyo que viene de bosques primitivos,
su ocaso y final levanta suspiros.
Mi río pulsa por uno y por todos,
no me persuades con chismes o estorbos.
Mi río fluye para encontrar el Jordán,
pensamientos celestiales ahora reinan.
Mi río dejará que tú seas tú
sobre mis aguas, todo es juventud.
Mi río canta canciones que hacen soñar,
mi ritmo hace a tu pecho volar.
Mi río esconde a Juárez y a Villa en sus destierros,
mártires van conmigo, sus miradas de justicia y de fierro.
Mi río semejante al río Mezcala que lleva el oro,
cuando llega la penumbra, fluyo entre las montañas cansado y solo.
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