En definitivas, me acordé de él por dos cosas. Ayer por un poema de John Berryman, "Dream Song 14", ese tipo de poemas le gustaban al personaje —a mí también, pero suelo repetir una y otra vez la lectura de Tuñón, Borges y Juarroz: en poesía, en ese orden. Hoy escuché el tema Save Me, de Aimee Mann, y me pareció genial para musicalizar algún episodio de la vida de Andrés, así se llamaba el personaje; cuando leí la letra me pareció casi obligatorio hacerlo. Pero lo cierto es que hace mucho dejé de escribir sobre él y ya no creo que pueda volver a hacerlo.
De todas formas, acá dejo el poema y la canción.
John Berryman - Dream Song 14
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn,
and moreover my mother told me as a boy
(repeatedly) ‘Ever to confess you’re bored
means you have no
Inner Resources.’ I conclude now I have no
inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Peoples bore me,
literature bores me, especially great literature,
Henry bores me, with his plights & gripes
as bad as achilles,
who loves people and valiant art, which bores me.
And the tranquil hills, & gin, look like a drag
and somehow a dog
has taken itself & its tail considerably away
into mountains or sea or sky, leaving
behind: me, wag.
Aimee Mann - Save Me*
You look like a perfect fit
For a girl in need of a tourniquet
But can you save me
Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
‘Cause I can tell you know what it’s like
The long farewell of the hunger strike
But can you save me
Come on and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
You struck me dumb like radium
Like Peter Pan or Superman
You will come to save me
C’mon and save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
‘Cept the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
But the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
C’mon and save me
Why don’t you save me
If you could save me
From the ranks of the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks
Who suspect they could never love anyone
Except the freaks who could never love anyone
* A este tema llegué leyendo Tu y Yo de Niccolò Ammaniti
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