I've never been so far away from the Sun. Five hundred and eighty-eight million kilometers away from home if the instruments are correct. It better be worth it. Jupiter and its majesty on starboard. Saturn showing in the distance, shily, ringless due to the distance. It better fucking be worth it. I had no option, savvy? I miss the food, you know, while having a picnic in the local park, drinking a beer, listening to Shostakovich. Above all, I miss her. Her messy hair. Her silky skin. Her joyous lips. My boss has assured me this is the last trip I gotta make. ''Water mining is not just about you or your job, but a gift for everyone,'' he said while giving me my assignment papers. ''There is no life without water'', I tell myself night in, night out. So I am here, alone, consuming too much breaderrill. I said I would not smoke, but here I am having one, floating towards Europa, strapped to the most obnoxious seat. ''You cannot be floating adrift aboard the vessel when you are so near the Belt or your destination, you jackass,'' said Vice Admiral Roccoforte last time I came here. So they added sensors to the chairs so they could track how much I spend sitting. Fucking pussies... The smoke detectors I can handle, but these piece of shit sensors... I gotta wear a catheter for three months while I do the mining, and have exactly five minutes three times a day to relief myself, jesus. The robots bring the food and water packs from storage. I can switch to the ergo-recliner to have a better night of sleep. However, I am still strapped to a damned chair. There is no life without water. Best part of space by myself: I can blast music as loud as as I want. ''I choose you with grace,'' sings Kele. ''I choose you with sensitivity.'' It's oh so funny how I ran into that song, unknowingly, unsuspectingly. I sang excited about the gorgeous music. I learnt it on guitar cause it's good practice. Not anymore. Cause I am now elated. ''They are good lyrics,'' I told Julian once. Now I'm moved to the point of tears. Cause of you. You, sip of wine in the Autumn. You, the sweetest breeze in the Spring. You, goddess of fire. ''I will understand,'' fills the rooms of the ship over and over. I send a voice message to the control room letting them know I'm around two hundred and fifty-seven thousand kilometers away from the landing spot. I do not care if the music in the background makes it hard for them to understand, they got the voice filtering to make out what I saying with a ciggie in my lips. I prep another voice message. ''Let me be the one to shine on you. Better to let, better to let you know. I am a fool in love,'' I softly croon to you. Bot 05 brings some pop and a pack of chips. ''Alcohol in insterstellar solo missions is no longer allowed'', said the assigment papers. Damn it. I slowly close my eyes while the white moon in the horizon grows larger. I ask the computer to decrease the temperature in the cockpit while I cross my arms and get a thermo-sheet. I think of you, my bear, my blood, my passion, my muse. I miss you...
magpie
when I reach 4200 I may know the answer I could be the answer not really...
1.1.26
Me tomas del cabello mientras me cuentas algo que pasó hace mucho y nos reímos. El Sol si apenas entra a través de la persiana ya que es un día lleno de cirros que debilitan el calor que acompaña a la luz. Pero tú no tienes frío porque estás en mis brazos. Mis necios brazos que siempre hacen mil cosas a la vez, pero que eres capaz de detener y que se enfoquen en ti. Porque me quieres. Porque te quiero. Me dices por mi nombre sin buscar nada. Acaricias mi mejilla sin querer nada más que sentirme. Me besas con la simple intención de comprobar lo terso de mis besos. Hay música de fondo, ruidos en la calle y en mi casa. Sin embargo, ese silencio mientras nos miramos logra ensordecer al mundo. Preguntas qué hora es, te respondo, y simplemente dices que el tiempo es un sinsentido circunstancial cuando estamos juntos. Recorro tus muslos con mi dedo índice mientras me preguntas cuáles son tus flores favoritas. No sé qué responder. Orquídeas, bobo, orquídeas, musitas mientras volteas los ojos y ríes al final. Acaricias mi cabello una vez más. Te alcanzo el agua y tomas un sorbo grande. Te arropo con mis brazos y te beso en la mejilla. Te acercas y susurras que el frío es mal recuerdo cuando estamos así, enroscados, salobres, empiernados, fundidos, eternos.
29.12.25
It is not what you think. It is how she sunshines my days and steams my cold days. It is her smell in the morning, and her body in the shower. It is the soft of her lower lip and the mess of her hair. How she holds me, how she sees me, how she tastes me. It is the moon of her skin and the notes in her humming. Cause we danced, we drank, we made love. We fucked, we slept and we broke bread. It is the warmth of her touch. Her tears, her falls, her laugh. Her complaints, her moans, her smiles. Cause there is nothing, absolutely nothing like her. Broken perfection, every beat in my heart.
On the evening of April 26th.
''It is not what you think. It is how she sunshines my days and steams my cold days. It is her smell in the morning, and her body in the shower. It is the soft of her lower lip and the mess of her hair. How she holds me, how she sees me, how she tastes me. It is the moon of her skin and the notes in her humming. Cause we danced, we drank, we made love. We fucked, we slept and we broke bread. It is the warmth of her touch. Her tears, her falls, her laugh. Her complaints, her moans, her smiles. Cause there is nothing, absolutely nothing like her. Broken perfection, every beat in my heart.''
That's what it said in the piece of paper I found crumpled on one of the benches in the park 20 minutes away from my house. It was the park at which we used to have breakfast once in a while. Sitting from across each other, sharing bites of whatever we fancied that morning cause we never had the same cravings. Except for fucking, savvy? But I did not care cause we always ended up sharing. Anything, everything. We both changed by being simply together. I still remember how his hair felt against my face while we lied down and playfully tussled in the grass after each meal. Lord do I miss it. Why, I mean... For fuck's sake... The paper looks like torn from a bigger piece of it, like discarded. I mean, who can blame it, right? For fuck's sake. Why today of all days did I have to find this? It's been a year, a fucking year, and I cannot think of anything else. His cheeks rubbing against my thighs. His voice rumbling in my body. It would take a message, a simple message, I know it. ''We will find each other,'' was the last sentence I heard him say. There is not much finding if I look for him. I read the piece of paper, over and over. I can't get up and walk away. My hand trembles when I grab the phone. A simple message. I comb my hair to the side so I don't set it on fire when I light a cigarette. Fire. He was fire. I go to my message history. I listen to the last audio he sent before that sour day. The one I never had the courage to which to listen. I call her. ''Hello,'' she says. With the same candor she used every time I went to their place. ''Listen,'' I say say shakily, ''where was it you decided to bury him?''
28.12.25
I still feel your legs around my neck. Pulling me in, so I can't stop. You are fire in my mouth. You are the sweetest taste of almonds. I hear you call my name, asking me to tell you if I like you, while you shower me, while we tremble. I still feel your hand grabbing me by the hair, pulling hard, showing me how fast or slow. My tongue, my lips were created for this. To feel you, to gratify you. You are fire in my soul. Don't stop, you moan, don't stop. Nothing matters but you and me, melting like piles of salt in the rain.
21.12.25
Te huelo en mis sábanas,
En mi cobertor, en mi ropa, en mi toalla,
Porque te llevo en el alma,
Y te llevo a cualquier lado al que voy,
Al supermercado, al paseo con mis perros,
Cuando tomo una ducha, cuando voy por un café.
El frío ya no es frío porque estás ahí,
Llenándome de calor y lujuria,
No agacho la cabeza porque si por alguna razón estuvieras cerca así te podría ver,
Y sonreiría tontamente, abriendo mis brazos hacia ti,
Sin preguntarte qué haces aquí, sino sólo sentirte,
Besándote para aprender una vez más del sabor de tu saliva, de la textura de tu lengua, del contorno de tus labios.
Y te pienso a cada rato,
Porque el Sol es un cuerpo naciente después de haber sentido el calor de tus ojos,
Porque la noche y sus terrores son un simple respiro después de dormir a tu lado,
Porque soy supernova después de haber probado tu cuerpo.
18.12.25
Si pudiese,
Me haría tan pequeño como la más minúscula de las pelusas en tu bolsillo,
Y me iría contigo,
Para sentirte,
Para no extrañarte,
Te pediría agua y algo de comer de vez en cuando,
Y a veces recobraría mi tamaño,
Y te besaría furtivamente, cuando duermes, cuando nadie nos vea, cuando me lo ordenes.
Si pudiera,
Tomaría un pedazo de mi carne,
De mi pecho, mi muslo, qué sé yo,
Y lo pondría a un lado de tu corazón,
Para sentir como palpita cuando te escribo desde lejos, cuando me extrañas, cuando piensas en mí.
Si pudiera, si se pudiera, trataría de no desprenderme de esa forma en la que me miras cuando me ves caminar hacia ti.
17.12.25
No entiendes... De verdad no entiendes lo mucho que te extraño. Cómo me revienta la cabeza, cómo se me marchita el cuerpo. Y llegas tu con tus ojos de luna hacia abajo, ojos rojizos, encendidos porque me miras. Ojos vivos y cansados a la vez. Porque duermo y no. Porque te tengo y no. Porque mi cuerpo vibra cual alas de libélula volando sin obstáculos, zigzagueando, siendo sólo una libélula, sin destino, sin prisa por llegar cuando te pienso, así, tú bajo el mismo cielo y tan lejos. Con tus ojos de sol final de atardecer, ya sabes, cuando no son rojos cual flama terrorífica, sino de un café suave, que acaricia el alma. Quiero tus sabores, tus olores. Quiero todo tu cuerpo, con sus imperfecciones y sus unicidades. Todo mundo me habla de lo horrible de perderse, no saber dónde se está, si alguien conocido les escucha, les estira la mano quizás. Pero yo busco perderme en ti, sentir como tu mano y tu voz me guían, me muestran cosas. Porque me tienes. Me tienes. Jamás dudes que me tienes. Y no lo dudas porque sé te tengo. Como Júpiter a sus Lunas, danzando al mismo ritmo, constante, errante andando en el tiempo. Te tengo. Estática en mi cabello. Cada pulgada de mi erizada piel. Mientras me tiro al sillón y me duele todo. Mientras camino por la calle paseando a mis perros. Yo sé que entiendes lo mucho que te extraño. Es simplemente que, a estas horas, no puedo evitar decirte cualquier cosa con tal de sentirte un poquitito más.
15.12.25
Oso
Ya lo dijo Pellicer, he olvidado mi nombre,
Porque tú no estás aquí,
Con tu cabello desordenado y tu rostro acalorado,
Con tu voz diciéndome la vida,
Mientras el mundo se resquebraja, allá, a lo lejos.
Busco café, busco cigarros,
Pero nada me alivia,
Simplemente espero ya a que el zanate venga y me cuente,
Si te ha visto, si te escuchó reír, si algún otro le ha contado de ti esto, mas nada.
Trato de perderme en un libro, en una sinfonía o escribiendo,
Para ver si así me encuentras y me das los buenos días,
Porque cuando llamas mi nombre éste cobra sentido,
El Sol es Sol, las hojas son hojas, y mi sangre eres tú.
7.12.25
Bubbles
And I will write you like the poem that you are...
Carrie Rudzinski
There is no up, nor down. Floating in ignominy. Cause I am the one that can think of just one thing. And that is you. I dared approach your eyes. And I now lay lost. Blissful endless continuum. There is no up, nor down. Cause dreams are mere stills if you ain't in them. Like blooming fields of tulips. Like crashing waves during a storm. I want you. In blue. As paper planes launching from the highest building in the city, tumbling down in currents filled with the voice of Aphrodite.
There is no up, nor down. I cannot lie and curl as I used to. Gravity betrayed me cause it is only you to whom it will listen, gracefully contorting it if you brush it with the tips of your left hand. All I do is close my eyes and hope. Hope for you to come close and close and close until your nose rubs against mine. And then I die cause that is how I feel when you kiss me. Transcending the nine heavens, flying amongst cherubs, bathed in daylight. I want you. I want you. Like Ahab wants the whale.
Cause I am soap bubbles reflecting the Sun, bouncing in the wind when I am with you. Cause I am the sound of the last dying cello in an étude about a flying comet when I am with you. Have I said that I want you? Do you mind hearing it again? It don't matter I cannot reach you with my fingertips right now since, well, I can still feel you with the tip of my tongue. Filthy, lustful, I know. But honest. Cause I am soap bubbles. Reflecting the Sun. Bouncing in the wind. Floating towards you, my bear, my blood, my passion, my muse.
6.12.25
Ceremony
How can love be this crippling? All I think is you. God. I can sleep proper, but at what cost? All I want to do is sleep, perhaps eat something not to starve, play a game or two of chess, listen to ceremony, and barely that. Cause it do not matter what else I do, it is done without the slightest of attention. Carefully, but automatically. I been blessed by you, showered by your stars. I feel you jumpstarting my heart when I falter, oh God. Do you feel my outstretched arms reaching for you in love?
Mahalia sang about this once, so passionately, so this text is a futile example to say the same. I will come out of my house later, to the benches in the tiny park near my house, with Kierkegaard in one hand and a tumbler full of coffee in the other. I will talk to the lonely man who is sometimes there and ask them to break bread with me. I will ask them what is the last thing they think before they fall asleep. I will ask what they plan on eating that day too. I will say 'Good afternoon' and walk away after while, until I know not where I am, drenched in sweat, and turn back, looking for a chapel where I can lose myself in you. Cause there I am what I am. Cause there no one will judge me. Cause there You might teach me a thing or two.
How can love be this crippling... I take my black guitar and play nothing in particular, barely brushing the strings, humming notes of desperation, hoping you can hear my serenade.
1.12.25
A la distancia
27.11.25
No sólo te lo he ofrecido, sino te lo he dado ya. En el frío y la desesperanza, en la penumbra y con la cabeza gacha; entre trinos de aves y caminatas al sol; en una noche juntos, y cuando fumo solo al amanecer. Porque los rostros de la gente por la calle cobran sentido cuando ninguno es el tuyo. Porque el aliento es sólo aire cuando no es un ventarrón de deseo viniendo de tus labios. Porque mi cuerpo es simple matemática sino eres tú quien me lleva de la mano.
Celoso fui de querer volverme a enamorar. Qué me parta un rayo si me dejo, si me alcanzan. Lo dijo Whitman, me canto a mí mismo, y lo demás no importa. Soy dueño de mi sexo, de mis miradas, de mis voces, de mis textos. Si a alguien intereso, que me busquen, me seduzcan, me convenzan. Yo soy el que soy, y nada más. Ja, pésimo sentido del humor el mío, porque me doy cuenta de que simplemente esperaba por ti.
Mi corazón es tuyo, así como mis labios marcados con tu nombre y mis ojos nacarados con tus rostro. Cerezo que da sombra, la luna creciente, el primer sorbo de café, seré lo que quieras. Pilar de sal después de pecar juntos, el humo de un cigarro en la madrugada.
No sólo lo he ofrecido, sino lo he entregado ya. Si lo dudas, simplemente cierra los ojos, pon tu mano en tu pecho desnudo, y di mi nombre.
24.11.25
Pequeño cuento para antes de dormir
Temeroso pequeño oso rojo
A beber del río
En tenebrosa noche.
Miró el creciente de la azul luna
En el agua, sonriente
Y pudo sonreírle de vuelta.
Extrañándote nomás
23.11.25
22.11.25
Tu azul siendo tan cálido
Tiemblo aunque voy sentado. No es el vaivén del tren. Ni los vestigios de alcohol en mi sistema. Eres tú y tu voz pulsar. Es tu sexo tan salado y tu piel erizada por mis labios. Olvidé mis anteojos, aunque no importa tanto. Quiero sólo ver hacia adentro de mí, en la oscuridad terrible, y ver tus ojos, tus labios. Insoportable calor. Y no es por la gruesa gorra que apenas amilana mi hirsuto cabello, o el desparrame de gente en el vagón. Es porque ardí contigo. Encendiose eternamente por 24 horas mi maltrecho cuerpo. Y sigo en combustión, con tu humor atrapado en mi piel y tu sabor atomizando mis labios. Te veo todavía, vestigio del sol al cerrar los ojos al mediodía. Te beso aunque sé ya vas lejos. Tiemblo. Tiemblo! Tal vez dos horas y llego a casa. En automático sonriendo ya que, ¡demonios! Pensar en ti es suficiente razón causa en esta lenta tarde de otoño.
30.5.25
I hate you. I hate how you make me think of the Milky Way. How I burn when you fucking look at me. How you fucking push me to make out with someone else. How I think over and over that you know, that you don't, that you need to push me away, that you itch, that you hate me too, that you yearn to tear me. I hate that I want you. I hate that you don't. I hate that you give twice as much two shits that I can't have you. And that still do you need me to see you as the cluster of stars that won't brighten your morning. I hate that I say no, then yes, then no.
Would you have me? You know, like a sip of coffee at nine in the morning. Like, you know, like something you never had.
No one else is nothing. Someone else is something, but never you.
I was like, you do know, like you were going to take me and like say, Lie with me, sleep with me, make me breakfast, ignore me, leave, send me a song, wish me a good day, say my name, say my name one, two, three, five, thirteen, forty seven times my name, call me sweetheart without my permission, suffer, and start all over the morning after. Cause I can comply non-stop. Cause you know it and you know it and you'll smile and you'll smile.
And... And I don't know what else to type.
6.8.24
Tamás
Who'll save him from being a man?
I like that street cause I can feel the leaves from the bushes on the curb. Just like when I was a boy, I run one of my hands all over them as I walk. Mind you, I was not as high as I am now on weed. I was high on life, though. Fearful like a squirrel in between of all those people. I'm still afraid, but for different reasons all together. Life seemed, well, larger than my known world. Today I fear how much I got left and how fast I keep living. Igniting myself at the slightest provocation. Seemingly attempting to intoxicate my surroundings and eventually burn out. It is not myself if I am not ablaze, I reckon. Out of control day in, day out. Spewing existential threads of thought.
This is why I want to test if someone can slow me down. I am running out of fuel. I can see the goal right ahead, but nothing is holding me by the hand. All I grab gets pulled with me and starts combusting rapidly. If it won't burn, I won't be working. My relationships, my family, my sex, my addictions, this text...
I am drunk in emotion, seeing how the roof above and walls around begin to crumble. Existence is a blur, everyone's shouts chirping in the distance. If I were only to trip, topple and stop to feel the sun. If it were the rays bathing, the insects walking on me, the grass and herbs dancing to the beat of my swollen heart. I could hear the waves calling me home deafeningly, asking me to ride on a white horse. Kidnapping for me to drown in the horizon.
4.8.24
La La
Te soñé entre luciérnagas una noche de verano. Menguante luna, cómplice silencio. Rasgando mis ropas, encontrando mi sexo. Ardiente unísono. Te soñé leyendo al pie de un árbol. Borges, taoísmo, una biografía de Nabokov, qué sé yo... Radiante al sol. Con las hojas de pasto atropellándose unas a las otras por alcanzar los dedos de tus pies. Absorta en soledad.
Mi nombre me fue dado así un día pudieras susurrarlo en mi oído. Porque la cascada de momentos que ha sido esta vida cobra sentido cuando tú me descubres cualquier día de verano. Soy porque soy porque soy contigo. Sin alegorías exageradas o aliteraciones flojas. Soy como soy cuando soy contigo. Buscando alcanzarte aunque no corras.
Quiero rozar tus pechos con el viento. Besarte con temor. Morderte en demasía. Aunarte con el cielo. Probarte ciegamente y amarte con hartazgo. Existir incompletamente y atarme a ti.
Soñé luciérnagas una noche de verano. Iluminando mi rostro. Reflejándose en la oscuridad infinitamente.