Tuesday 16 April 2013

The King has died. Long live the King! (El rey ha muerto ¡Viva el rey!) - León Felipe


DIALOGUE

-Where is the prayer?
-Dead! Don’t you know that it’s dead?
You’ll find it in there, on its back, on the cold tiles of the church.
-In life it was my sister…
I want to go in to see it.
-Did the prayer have a sister?
-It had a sister: blasphemy.
It was the white dove,
I am the black rat.
-And what have you all come for?
Have you just come to see it?
-And to inherit its duties…
to succeed it.
-But where is God? Where is God?
-In the beak of the prayer…
or on the tail of blasphemy.

From Ganarás La Luz (You Will Earn the Light) 1953

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