Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Alejandra Pizarnik

you have to cry until you breakin order to make or utter a small song,to scream so much to fill the holes of absencethat’s what you did, what I did.

she killed herself young—an overdose of Seconal, at the age of 36—


SOMETHING
night as you go
lend me your hand
work of a teeming angel
days commit suicide
why do they?
night as you go
good night




Death will come with your eyes

this death that accompanies us
from morning till night, sleepless,
deaf, like an old regret
or a stupid vice. Your eyes
will be a useless word,
a muted cry, a silence.
As you see them each morning
when alone you lean over 
the mirror. O cherished hope,
that day we too shall know
that you are life and nothing.
For everyone death has a look.
Death will come with your eyes.
It will be like terminating a vice,
as seen in the mirror
a dead face re-emerging,
like listening to closed lips.
We'll go down the abyss in silence. 
Cesare Pavese

On August 27, After winning a literary award, he committed suicide in a Turin hotel room by a barbiturate overdose.  

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Please Don't take me Home.



 Ricardo Rendon, Celebrated Colombian political cartoonist. After drawing a quick sketch of a skull and writing the words "Please do not take me home"he shot himself in the head in a coffee shop here in Bogota at age 37.