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Friday, August 22, 2014

Nicanor Parra: The Next Centenarian

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People visit a photographic exhibition in honour
of  Chilean poet Nicanor Parra in Santiago, on August 19, 2014.
 THE LAST TOAST


Whether we like it or not,

We have only three choices:

Yesterday, today and tomorrow.



And not even three

Because as the philosopher says

Yesterday is yesterday

It belongs to us only in memory:

From the rose already plucked

No more petals can be drawn.



The cards to play

Are only two:

The present and the future.



And there aren't even two

Because it's a known fact
The present doesn't exist

Except as it edges past

And is consumed...

like youth.



In the end

We are only left with tomorrow.

I raise my glass

To the day that never arrives.



But that is all 

we have at our disposal.
Nicanor Parra


The Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist
will be celebrating  his one hundredth birthday
two weeks from today on September 5, 2014.
¡Feliz cumpleaños!



The AFP Photo by Martin Bernetti appears
in today's Art Daily newsletter.






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Footnote
To read the poem in Chilean, click here.
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