
CKCU Literary News
Wednesday January 2nd, 2019 with Hans G. Ruprecht & Friederike Knabe.
Looking back at the 2018 literary scene and forward with Nicanor Parra’s ‘Último Brindis’.
ÚLTIMO BRINDIS
“[...] En resumidas cuentas
Sólo nos va quedando el mañana:
Yo levanto mi copa
Por ese día que no llega nunca
Pero que es lo único
De lo que realmente disponemos.”
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.
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