Caña cascada

Caña cascada

balanceándose sinuosamente

soplados por la melodía lánguida

brazos se extienden, forman arcos y capitulan

tocados por la brisa melancólica

miembros extendidos iteran

una vez más repitiendo

oscila suavemente

el cuerpo curvilíneo

en sí mismo una belleza

confluye en movimiento y estación

borrando la distinción

de gesto estético y forma

otra oleada musical

músculos flexionan y estiran

sin esfuerzo ostensiblemente

piernas se alargan

en un salto

aterrizan y hacen piruetas

no resistiendo el tirón

de Cloto la imparable

la danza-Destino incansable

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seduce todavía

aun cuando la carne está degradada

una atrofia inexorable

a través de enfermedad

dolencia y discapacidad

que cursa el dolor

no se puede apagar

el deseo de existir

en el momento

en la curva, el giro

o la rotación

sincronía espontánea

todavía hay memoria

a veces tortuoso

agradable de vez en cuando

de capricho ágil

de flexibilidad física

de vida en plenitud vivida

Bruised Reed

[Image description: video - final scene from Pedro Almodóvar's Hable con Ella/Talk to Her; choreography by Pina Bausch; music by Bau.]

Bruised Reed

swaying sinuously

blown by the languorous melody

arms extend, arc and capitulate

touched by the melancholy breeze

outstretched limbs iterate

repeating once more

they gently oscillate

the curvaceous body

unto itself a beauty

motion and station merge

blurring the distinction

of æsthetic movement and form

another musical surge

muscles flex and stretch

effortlessly ostensibly

legs elongate

into a leap

land and pirouette

no resisting the pull

of unstoppable Clotho

the untiring Dance-Fate

*

she seduces still

tho’ flesh is now debased

an inexorable atrophy

via ailment, disease and disability

coursing pain

cannot extinguish

the desire to exist

in the moment

in the bend, the turn or spin

spontaneous synchronicity

still there is memory

torturous sometimes

pleasurable occasionally

of lithesome caprice

of physical pliancy

of life lived fully




Si el lector es hablante de español, puede que prefiera mi versión traducida.

The Eugenics Hydra

In an update to my articles on Genetic Discrimination and NAZI Treatment of the Disabled, the menacing threat of eugenics rears its vicious and hideous Hydra heads once again.

Today's Daily Telegraph (a right-of-centre UK national newspaper favoured by the Conservative Party aka Tories) published an article on screening embryos being the moral thing for any parent to do.

Professor Savulescu, a professor of medical ethics, writes that:

"Indeed, when it comes to screening out personality flaws, such as potential alcoholism, psychopathy and disposition to violence, you could argue that people have a moral obligation to select ethically better children."

This is a potentially perilous slippery slope that leads to the weeding out of all non-desirables: the brown-eyed; the homosexual; the ethnic genes of which one is ashamed or despises... Please read the full article if you have the time.

Be very alert folks!

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