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Mateuš Conrad Sep 2018
.the English pronounce the Cornish town's name as: nookie... the **** is it, a Green Day album name, or a Limp Bizkit song? perhaps i'm too French in my pronunciation... quail... eggs... quay... qua-a... if i were Welsh i'd write you the name like so... newyddquaa... but no... but no, has to be nookie... like buggering a ******* chimp... quail eggs... see how language becomes mutated? nothing is apparently, certainly, stable... always the permutation of a flux... i must have ingested a little of the French concept of: je ne sais quoi when learning English... come one... nouveaucarrière: new quarry... nouveauquai... nookie?! seriously?! Q, Q... Quail eggs... quay... new... quay... maybe the usage of hyphenating words into compounds needs to be revised in the english sprechen... ******* mutation... nookie... ****** ******, + a ******* wookie, walking carpet ride worth the name Chew-a-Buck-back-up! i'd settle for: new-key... some sort of variant of a maritime honing device for locating ships sending distress signals during storms... but... no... but hey... it's authentically Welsh territory... Cornwall is, after all... a pre modern extension of Wales... nookie this: shotgun my *** while is spew rhetoric concerning the health benefits of applying feces instead of ****** cream for the benefits of: no one.

over 20 years spent living on these isles,
and i never made the connection -
Welsh nationalism could only work
if you included Cornwall -
   given that Cornish is very much:
a southern dialect of Çymru -

    i guess... i'm not sure...
    let's put it to the etymological filter...
beginning with primary words:

black
           du   (Cornish)
      du   (Çymru)

    red
       rudh (Cornish)
      coch (Çymru)

    white
          gwydn (Cornish)
gwyn (Çymru)
      
        i guess that's how etymology works,
a shared origins story...
etymology is best
  examined with primary words,
basic nouns / adjectives...

that was the adjective test...
now for the noun test:

sun
          howl (Cornish)
  haul (Çymru)
      
  moon
   loor (Cornish)
    lloer (Çymru)...

    sky
               ebron (Cornish)
   awyr (Çymru) -
   ah...
      now we see what becomes from
etymological deviation...
the sky has to have more
inherent connotations
of a religiosity as the resting place
of sort...

i'm sure that sea, earth, water,
and fire, are very much akin
or mountain...
but i could be wrong...

sea
    mor (Cornish)
  môr (Çymru)
        
earth
    dor (Cornish)
   ddaear (Çymru)

   water
         dowr (Cornish)
      *dŵr
(Çymru)

fire
          tan (Cornish)
    tân (Çymru)

mountain
   menedh (Cornish)
         mynydd (Çymru) -

ah... well then...
that explains the separatist movement
of Cornwall akin
to the Spanish Basque or
the Catalonia...

  white cross on a black flag...
they're ******* Welsh down
in Cornwall!
   i was eating a Welsh pasty
all along!
           oh... i see...
  
  that's why they're separatists
down there...
but there's one word that's
crucial in all of this,
given the emblem is
on the Welsh flag...

  dragon...
**** me!
       there's an etymological source
for the word in English...
and, it comes from?
Cornish!

   draig (Çymru)
  dragon... in ******* Cornish!
**** me...

what's... snake?
   serpont (Cornish)
    neidr (Çymru)...

   there are similarities though...
blatant ones...
which explains the separatist
sentiment of the Cornish people...
they are like
the Hindu corp
of the Urdu speaking Welsh...
high Welsh and low Welsh...

nice to know...
thank god i didn't make the brash
etymological decision to
find the long lost cousins
of a shared source
akin to "abstract" words,
like...

        gallos-power-gallu...

****!

          g­od?
       DUW | WUD

well... god is a universal word,
and it matches...
  duw is god in Cornish,
and in Çymru...
   as it is also Allah on Malta...
funny as the fact that Malta
and it's Knights Hospitaller
cross of St. John of
                                 1567.

20 ******* years on these isles -
and only now i realize
why the Cornish are separatists...
they're Welsh...
   in disguise,
under the guise of a tourist
hot spot that's "nookie":
                       i.e. Newquay...

come to think of it...
    even though i'm living in England...
i interacted more with
the Welsh, the Irish and the Scots...
than i have with the English...
    i'm starting to think that...
if i don't make my way to
Yorkshire...
  or Newcastle...
then i lived in a country...
where the supposed countrymen
of said name... never existed!
ha!

well, in english you'd never really know
that Cornwall was once part of Wales,
given that Wales, isn't in the name
Cornwall: but that's in English...

in Polonaise?
        well... Wales / Walia (that double-u
  or rather, the double-v,
   since... erm: ωμέγα?)
         ergo?
      Cornwall / Kornwalia...
      probably the most beautiful part of
England you can begin to imagine...

aside...
   the current debate over "the pond" in
h'america... tuition fees, student debt...
as much as the h'americans love to gloat
and boast this that and the other...

i'm looking at myself...
    i went to university, studied chemistry,
and history...
   3rd year? 12 hours per week in
the laboratories...
three tiers of chemistry:
a.  physical - i hated physical chemistry,
it's so un-chemical...
   too much physics / mathematical
*******, so obviously i was weak at it...
b. inorganic chemistry...
    something that mingles with
   geology / metallurgy...
   eh... so so... it was o.k. and finally
c. organic chemistry...
   my strongest route, my faustian dream...
and so much like cooking,
so much so that... well: heston blumenthal...
maybe that's why i love cooking
so much, since it reminds me of
organic chemistry...
   anyways, i digress...
      back when i studied...
  and labour was in power with their:
education, education, education mantra?
that's what was still great
                  about britain...
the last stand as it were,
   ****, i still remember tha handing over
of hong kong...
    fee, per year? 1,250 quid...
                      that's it...
student loan, 3,000 quid per year...
   i actually did manage to live
             on the 3,000 with enough money
spare to do weekend away trips to paris,
stockholm, barcelona etc. - and god:
how i loved to travel alone,
bumping into strangers in hostels...
and the best part?
    i don't have to repay my loan until
i earn over 15,000 quid per year...
and since i'm not earning that...
                  the loan will be annuled after
30 years...
   mind you... a really **** year to go
to university and become a british citizen...
since... in scotland... e.u. citizens didn't
pay tuition fees!
      hence the massive surge of the polans
circa 2005...
                                 so: america, **** yeah!

but on a night like this,
esp. in the evening prior to the night itself,
there's that surge in electricity in the air...
you're walking to the supermarket
and the most mediocre magic happens...
sonny rollins' blues in your ears
you pass a street lamp and it gets switched
on by the grid...

                   it's only special because
your're listening to jazz and when you listen
to jazz and promenade...
you might as well be as content as if
walking a yorkshire terrier...
    
   while on the way back, instead of your
usual beer... you buy yourself...
a rowntrees ice lolly...
    and you eat that... smirking, feeling
                                                 like a badass.

p.s. the best thing i received from
the university wasn't even the degree...
a chance to play squash, mountain climbing
(glen coe was a beau)...
         a t-shirt...
since, once i left: a self-teaching discipline.
Dánï Nov 2013
I feel* very hopeless,
Completely worthless.

I feel the strength oozing out of me,
Pooling up on my bathroom
floor- staring up mockingly.

I feel the vibrations of your voice, loud and clear,
They always know where to hit me, just like a spear.

I feel as if I do not belong anywhere I go,
I'm a laughing sto
ck and guess who's the main attraction at this wicked show?

I feel my "loved ones" quickly drifting apart,
I was your roc
k but reality has crushed me down with a mighty start.

I feel the non believing eyes boring down,
None of you care as deeply as you claim, you'd rather I swallow my misery and hurriedly drown.

I feel you changing your mind about me,
I'm not the person you cleverly made me want to be.

I feel the stomps of your feet though I am thousands of miles far,
You make yourself believe you provided the necessary with a house and a car.

I feel the love I have for you slowly disintegrating,
It's funny how it's yo
ur world that is now changing.

I feel myself going crazy, completely insane,
and you're the only one who can carry that blame.

I feel** the way this is going to end,
So let me get the blade, my old friend.
-d.***
De Antequera partió el moro   tres horas antes del día,
con cartas en la su mano   en que socorro pedía.
Escritas iban con sangre,   más no por falta de tinta.
El moro que las llevaba   ciento y veinte años había,
la barba tenía blanca,   la calva le relucía;
toca llevaba tocada,   muy grande precio valía.
La mora que la labrara   por su amiga la tenía;
alhaleme en su cabeza   con borlas de seda fina;
caballero en una yegua,   que caballo no quería.
Solo con un pajecico   que le tenga compañía,
no por falta de escuderos,   que en su casa hartos había.
Siete celadas le ponen   de mucha caballería,
mas la yegua era ligera,   de entre todos se salía;
por los campos de Archidona   a grandes voces decía:
-¡Oh buen rey, si tú supieses   mi triste mensajería,
mesarías tus cabellos   y la tu barba vellida!
El rey, que venir lo vido,   a recebirlo salía
con trescientos de caballo,   la flor de la morería.
-Bien seas venido, el moro,   buena sea tu venida.
-Alá te mantenga, el rey,   con toda tu compañía.
-Dime, ¿qué nuevas me traes   de Antequera, esa mi villa?
-Yo te las diré, buen rey,   si tú me otorgas la vida.
-La vida te es otorgada,   si traición en ti no había.
-¡Nunca Alá lo permitiese   hacer tan gran villanía!,
mas sepa tu real alteza   lo que ya saber debría,
que esa villa de Antequera   en grande aprieto se vía,
que el infante don Fernando   cercada te la tenía.
Fuertemente la combate   sin cesar noche ni día;
manjar que tus moros comen,   cueros de vaca cocida.
Buen rey, si no la socorres,   muy presto se perdería.
El rey, cuando aquesto oyera,   de pesar se amortecía;
haciendo gran sentimiento,   muchas lágrimas vertía;
rasgaba sus vestidudas,   con gran dolor que tenía,
ninguno le consolaba,   porque no lo permitía;
mas después, en sí tornando,   a grandes voces decía:
-Tóquense mi añafiles,   trompetas de plata fina;
júntense mis caballeros   cuantos en mi reino había,
vayan con mis dos hermanos   a Archidona, esa mi villa,
en socorro de Antequera,   llave de mi señoría.
Y ansí, con este mandado   se junto gran morería;
ochenta mil peones fueron   el socorro que venía,
con cinco mil de caballo,   los mejores que tenía.
Ansí en la Boca del Asna   este real sentado había
a la vista del infante,   el cual ya se apercebía,
confiando en la gran victoria   que de ellos Dios le daría,
sus gentes bien ordenadas;   de San Juan era aquel día
cuando se dió la batalla   de los nuestros tan herida,
que por ciento y veinte muertos   quince mil moros había.
Después de aquesta batalla   fue la villa combatida
con lombardas y pertrechos   y con una gran bastida
conque le ganan las torres   de donde era defendida.
Después dieron el castillo   los moros a pleitesía,
que libres con sus haciendas   el infante los pornía
en la villa de Archidona,   lo cual todo se cumplía;
y ansí se ganó Antequera   a loor de Santa María.
Difícilmente llamo a la realidad, como el perro, y
también aúllo. Cómo amaría establecer el
diálogo del hidalgo y el barquero, pintar la jirafa, describir
los acordeones, celebrar mi musa desnuda y enroscada a mi cintura de
asalto y resistencia. Así es mi cintura, mi cuerpo en general,
una lucha despierta y larga, y mis riñones escuchan.
Oh Dios, cuántas ranas habituadas a la noche, silbando y
roncando con gargantas de seres humanos a los cuarenta años, y
qué angosta y sideral es la curva que hasta lo más lejos
me rodea! Llorarían en mi caso los cantores italianos, los
doctores de astronomía ceñidos por esta alba negra,
definidos hasta el corazón por esta aguda espada.
Y luego esa condensación, esa unidad de elementos de la noche,
esa suposición puesta detrás de cada cosa, y ese
frío tan claramente sostenido por estrellas.
Execración para tanto muerto que no mira, para tanto herido de
alcohol o infelicidad, y loor al nochero, al inteligente que soy yo,
sobreviviente adorador de los cielos.
Este noble poeta, que ha escuchado
los ecos de la tarde y los violines
del otoño en Verlaine, y que ha cortado
las rosas de Ronsard en los jardines
de Francia, hoy, peregrino
de un Ultramar de Sol, nos trae el oro
de su verbo divino.
¡Salterios del loor vibran en coro!
La nave bien guarnida,
con fuerte casco y acerada prora,
de viento y luz la blanca vela henchida
surca, pronta a arribar, la mar sonora.
Y yo le grito: ¡Salve! a la bandera
flamígera que tiene
esta hermosa galera,
que de una nueva España a España viene.
Este regreso no era obligatorio
sin embargo
la mano encuentra su cuchara
el paso su baldosa
el corazón su golpe de madera
el abrazo su brazo o su cintura
la pregunta su alguien
los ojos su horizonte
la mejilla su beso o su garúa
el orgullo su dulce fundamento
el pellejo su otoño
la memoria su rostro decisivo
los rencores su vaina
el reloj su lujuria tempranera
el dolor su no olvido o su neblina
el paladar sus uvas
el loor su desastre
la nostalgia su lecho

o sea
perdón vallejo
aquí estoy otra vez
viviendo de costumbre
celebrando de oído
Yo era en mis sueños, don Ramón, viajero
del áspero camino, y tú, Caronte
de ojos de llama, el fúnebre barquero
de las revueltas aguas de Aqueronte.

Plúrima barba al pecho te caía.
(Yo quise ver tu manquedad en vano).
Sobre la negra barca aparecía
tu verde senectud de dios pagano.

Habla, dijiste, y yo: cantar quisiera
loor de tu Don Juan y tu paisaje,
en esta hora de verdad sincera.

Porque faltó mi voz en tu homenaje,
permite que en la pálida ribera
te pague en áureo verso mi barcaje.

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