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Another poem by Jose Emilio Pacheco

Literature and reality

The stark reality,

His incurable tendency to melodrama and absurd. The reality is
psychopath:
never feels sorry for his victims.
cheats to play with hope. Everything
misspelled with jagged letters. Filled
syntax errors. Ignore
rhythm, pitch, harmony.
confuses the roles.
Forget what I said on another page.
should enter into a literary workshop, learn at least rudimentary

plausibility, coherence and order. However
possesses high artistic
A supreme virtue:
never repeats itself, always
new
always leaves us with an open mouth.