Alm@ Pérez: One, Great, Free

One, Great, Free

Alm@ Pérez

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Translation and voice: Helen Wagg

ONE

lie, a false identity that unites, a perverse partnership that constrains.

One does not exist. It is not. We are many and scattered. We are varied and infinite, and all subjected to

one

fallacy, the ritual of another’s dream that dominates, that seduces, that explodes and kills.

that we be many.

that we be more.

let us decide against.

GREAT

weaving the blue, the red, and the star spangled,

the white that destroys, and then thinks it over,

and as it speaks, it tears apart.

obese avatar that controls and crashes,

the colossal stubbornness that fornicates with its own overblown illusion

that attacks and flattens with its huge buttocks,

buttocks of a vile god by design and brochures.

Great the napalm flash that burns.

Great the erected bars that impale.

Great the illusion and the gigantic farce as is its convenient blindness.

Great the lie and its fall face down amidst the shattered glass of the false chimeras.

FREE

you are not, not now, we are not. Ask the oppressed, the enslaved.

All false and reversed.

Wake up.

Table of related information
Copyright ©	Alm@ Pérez, 2007
By the same author	Asesinato en el laboratorio de idiomas Itaca y Descalza Poemas de amor y virus y otros pecados Reflejos líquidos (Auto)retratos Velo City (v.1) Respiración mecánica Desprendiendo Pinzas de metal Bola Luna Código de barras Negro en ovejas Velo City (v.1) Velo City (v.1) Velo City (v.1) Velo City (v.1) Dislodging Iradokiz Desprendendo Desprenent Velo City (v.1) Dislodging
Date of publication	November 2007
Collection	A Hot January
Permalink	https://badosa.com/p186-en

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