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Kenyon Review

“You see, this is what fascists do not understand about Death; they spit in her face with arrogance, rape her visage with their emblems of total war, torture her bones and the bones she keeps safe for renewal, but she has her keepers, and at one point or another we re(member) what they try to dis(member). What was it that Millán-Astray and his legion used to yell in his mangled manner? Ah yes, “¡Viva la muerte!”, qué ingratos, ni siquiera la conocen; una paradoja necia, chapucera y sin cumplido. A estos les gritamos, “¡Viva Lorca! ¡Viva Unamuno!” No nos olvidamos de su tumba sin nombre y la otra derrumbada de la verdad. A los fascistas les da un temor terrible el conocimiento. “¡Muerte a los intelectuales!” he said; me río porque se delatan a sí mismos en su culto a la estupidez. Today they drop bombs on poets, more unmarked graves to re(member).”

A decorative pink and purple garden ornament shaped like a Cinderella carriage with succulents planted inside, accompanied by a pink and white toy unicorn with a floral decoration, set against a lush green garden background.
Hypertext Magazine

“There is no measure to a life for it is infinite. There is the tumultuousness, the chasm of existence and its experience. Our names remain in anonymity but the ethics behind the lived life will endure in the remembrance.”

Brevity
Picture of artisanal work of la virgen de gudalupe by Daisy Elizeth Magallanes

“To make myself legible and illegible, and knowing that I have this right, is hard-won wisdom when you grow up in this country. Illegibility gets a bad wrap, but ya que se dejen de sus pendejadas.”