Words of wisdom #1

3 questions I can not answer

1. Would you choose food or sex?
2. Would you prefer money or fame?
3. What kind of music do you like?

La, la, la

Music is not my thing and I have no particular knowledge. Still, here are -in random order- the 10 songs that I kept listening the last two years:

1. Rapunzel - Novak
2. Oh well - Fiona Apple
3. Secret - The Pierces
4. Us - Regina Spector
5. Fairy tales - Cayetano
6. Her morning elegance - Oren Lavie
7. Siempre me quedara - Bebe
8. Rayuela - Gotan Project
9. La vida es un carnaval - Celia Cruz
10. Llamado de emergencia - Daddy Yankee

The day I've been waiting

I decided to study English Language and Literature because I wanted to combine my two loves -books and languages- and become a literary translator. Since 2001, I've been saying that one day, you will see something where my name will appear after the "translation" word. I had to wait long, but it finally arrived. Let's hope this will be the start, but even if it doesn't, at least I can now tick it off my bucket list.

You Don't Know What Love Is

You don’t know what love is
but you know how to raise it in me
like a dead girl winched up from a river. How to
wash off the sludge, the stench of our past.
How to start clean. This love even sits up
and blinks; amazed, she takes a few shaky steps.
Any day now she’ll try to eat solid food. She’ll want
to get into a fast car, one low to the ground, and drive
to some cinderblock shithole in the desert
where she can drink and get sick and then
dance in nothing but her underwear. You know
where she’s headed, you know she’ll wake up
with an ache she can’t locate and no money
and a terrible thirst. So to hell
with your warm hands sliding inside my shirt
and your tongue down my throat
like an oxygen tube. Cover me
in black plastic. Let the mourners through.

Kim Addonizio