{"id":950,"date":"2020-07-22T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boyanmanchev.net\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2020-07-31T02:07:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T23:07:58","slug":"the-music-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boyanmanchev.net\/blog\/comet-en\/the-music-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"The Music itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

To play the body as you play a perfect instrument, <\/span><\/p>\n

Every organ produces a new melody, a new variation, <\/span><\/p>\n

To wield perfect mastery over the rhythm of cells. <\/span><\/p>\n

The cells trained to perfection <\/span><\/p>\n

To sense the shining sting of the genius infiltrating your biological course, <\/span><\/p>\n

To cut through the body like an icebreaker, <\/span><\/p>\n

through the ocean <\/span><\/p>\n

To master the complexity <\/span><\/p>\n

To overcome the ethical abyss <\/span><\/p>\n

To never get stuck in the shallow waters of pettiness <\/span><\/p>\n

To not survive the wreck of unbearable exigency <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet to not humble yourself, to not haul in sail and leave the stock rust in the shallow waters \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To be your body <\/span><\/p>\n

Stasis without metastasis <\/span><\/p>\n

To not allow death catch up with you in malice <\/span><\/p>\n

To be right and to look the worthy life into the eye <\/span><\/p>\n

Like in the morning when you look at yourself in the mirror <\/span><\/p>\n

To gaze not at death but at the serene life in dignity <\/span><\/p>\n

To be exactly this death of yours and this life of yours <\/span><\/p>\n

Measured as a perfect mechanism <\/span><\/p>\n

Like the perfect mechanism of the unfathomable <\/span><\/p>\n

The disorganised choreography of the starlings murmuration in the springtime <\/span><\/p>\n

The splashes of the sea the waves of the storm <\/span><\/p>\n

To collect every memory so as to see it in the eyes of worthy life\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To shelter it in the wilderness <\/span><\/p>\n

To not rescue it or give it promises <\/span><\/p>\n

But to stop it, to humble it, to nourish it <\/span><\/p>\n

The images are the fragments of the body <\/span><\/p>\n

Of our body remain only fragments <\/span><\/p>\n

The hedgehogs of the images <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet hedgehogs that <\/span><\/p>\n

collect the forest mushrooms with dignity <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

at dawn <\/span><\/p>\n

at dusk<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

*<\/span><\/p>\n

No scale playing no register studying <\/span><\/p>\n

But the music itself, outright, all at once <\/span><\/p>\n

The music itself. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/h5>\n
Excerpt from the philosophical poem The Virtuoso of Life<\/em> (2011-2012)<\/h5>\n
Translated from the Bulgarian by Filip Stoilov<\/h5>\n\n\n

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