Poems by Esteban 2003
FORECAST

The forecast for Santiago
is it will be cloudy
with a likelihood
of cosmic rainfall.


BEHAVIOUR
They are all speaking, announcing, proclaiming, scaring,
predicting, chasing, seeking, worrying,
yearning, sounding, commercialising, selling,
exchanging, charging, buying, exploiting, working,
ordering, believing, following, doing, planting,
harvesting, looking, feeling, touching, smelling,
foreboding, imagining, exaggerating, promising,
idealizing, fearing ,loving, hating, guessing, supposing and hoping.

And when the bomb falls, it will
smash, shatter, annihilate, destroy, overwhelm, atomise,
disintegrate, grind, pulverise, fragment, shrink, diminish
,minimise, flatten, burn, carbonise, smoulder, kill, eliminate,
assassinate, end, forbid.

That’s why I prefer to
fight it, struggle against it,
and attack it to death.