Omar Perez

 

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Contributions to a Rudimentary Concept of Nation

BY OMAR PÉREZ

TRANSLATED BY ROBERTO TEJADA

On the volatile nights of a winter

nature corroborates with magnanimity

a Cuban is in training for amusement or amnesia,

so often and unfairly assumed as the same,

he brings candy to God, he cultivates the vernacular, he fights off

cirrhosis with fruit poached in syrup, he conducts business;

thus research has shown that The Cuban is resourceful.

In the weighty choreographies of a summer

nature authorizes already with suspicion

a Cuban meets the ocean with offerings and harpoons,

so often and unfairly assumed as the same,

he finger-counts the casualties, he commits an infraction

he slides his hands into his pockets, he avows and commits;

thus analysis has shown that The Cuban is inspired.

Let’s attend the improbable territory

where with pasty mouths a Cuban and The Cuban engage in virile

conversation

we will learn there by what voyage, by what strange condition

by what exchange

we fall prey to so much ingenuity.