it goes too quickly, va demasiado rápido
I was 14 in 1984. It was a time when shameless icon worship was not just unavoidable but seemed to be a good idea as well. That year the person I would have taken a bullet for was Cyndi Lauper. She was the first live concert I ever went to alone. To me, She Bop sums up everything that was great about 1984; terrible, terrible (and yet somehow endearing) special effects, the whole "conformity versus chaos" as somehow expressed in a burger joint and poofy hair; Beefcake Charly's bikers; bingo and Uncle Siggy; parents who appear in their daughter's videos and still lip-sync poorly; and an ode to reading Blue Boy magazine … a hardcore gay magazine that causes Cyndi's car to steam up.
But one thing bothers me that I cannot find an answer to; in the video there is a short animated sequence but I cannot find any reference to the artist who actually did the drawings. Does anyone know this?
None of this has anything to do with my poem and translation I made yesterday. I mention it simply because everyone, everywhere, has some sort of embarrassing skeleton in their closet. After all once Cyndi began hanging out with WWF pro-wrestlers I couldn't look my friends in the eye *sigh* oh, the shame. the shame …. so I figured I'd air mine before running for public office.
Lo que fue.
Lo que no fue.
Quiero que sepas
una cosa.
No soy ni uno
ni otro. Esto no
es nigromancia.
Esto no es
bendición.
Los candiles
se apagan.
Va demasiado
rápido.
La lujuria y
lo que no es lujuria.
Amor mío, bien
lo sé.What was.
What was not.
I want you to know
one thing.
I am neither one
nor the other.
This is not
black art.
This is not
blessing.
The oil lamps
are put out.
It goes too
quickly.
Lust and
what is not lust.
My love, all this
I know.