Seven Questions for Kurt Cobain

jointsyjointsy Posts: 478
edited January 2004 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
This is something I just wanted to share... The following is a poem from an Spanish writter named Benjamin Prado, I made a thesis on him when I finished my college studies, and I just felt the need to share this author with the people on this board. The translation is mine and I hope I didn't ruin at all -I usually translate from English to Spanish, but not viceversa-. Hope you like it, it's from a book titled "Shelter from the Storm" and it was published in 1995:

Seven Questions For Kurt Cobain

Do questions exist or are they just
Something like wanting to catch your own hand
And finding a close door when you open it,
An empty hand?

How was that place:
Jimi Hendrix was walking under the purple haze
And Jim Morrison went into the blue bus?

Did you write at the end that sentence
By Neil Young: is better to burn out than to fade away
Because you were a part
Of that sentence just like a traveller
Is part of a train, that sentence
Just like a long train detained under the rain?

What was the answer:
To go so far that you’d feel alone;
To see the last angel –resembling
The shape of wind over some roses-
And shoot on him, on that sweet
Angel of loneliness, while the wind
Was bringing the heart of gashed roses
Like broken bottles in a river?

Where do you come from? Where are we all going?
"Random is not whatever"
-Charly Garcia

"OH! That saxophone would make a great pipe" -Homer Simpson

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