Sunday, March 20, 2011

Where Are All The Superheroes On Poptropica

Poem: Teachers - Nicanor Parra

L you Teachers

Teachers we went crazy
to questions that did not come to the case
how complex numbers are added
or not there are spiders on the moon
how Tsar's family died
is it possible to sing with your mouth closed?
Who painted a mustache on the Mona Lisa
do you call the inhabitants of Jerusalem
or not there is oxygen in the air
how are the apostles of Christ
what is the meaning of the word consueta
what were the words of Christ on the cross said
who is the author of Madame Bovary , where he wrote
Cervantes Don Quixote
how David slew Goliath
etymology of the word philosophy
what is the capital of Venezuela
when the English came to Chile

No one will say that our teachers
were available through a mobile
exact opposite: a modest
primary teachers
or secondary not remember very well
"Now that cane and coat
like we're at the beginning of the century had no
why bother bother
in that
way except for reasons unmentionable:
to how much educational hobby
cruelty in a vacuum over black!


teeth of the tiger's scientific name swallow how many
parts has a solemn mass
what is the formula of sulfur trioxide
how to add fractions with different denominators
stomach of ruminants
pedigree Felipe II
Master Singers of Nuremberg
Gospel according to Matthew
name five poets
Finnish etymology of the word etymology

universal law of gravitation
which family owns the cow
do you call the insect wings
which family owns the platypus
least common multiple between two and three
or not there is darkness in the light
of the solar system
Respiratory amphibians
exclusive bodies of fish
periodic table of elements
author of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
what the phenomenon called es-pe-jis-mo
how a train would take to reach the moon
how French is said board
highlight words ending in a consonant

The truth of things
is that we sat on the difference
who would bother with such questions
the best just rattled us
only a bad head
the real truth of things
is that we were people of action
to our eyes the world
reduced the size of a soccer ball and kicking
was our delusion
our reason for being there
adolescents championships lasted until the night
still see myself chasing the ball
invisible in the dark
had to be an owl or bat
to avoid colliding with the walls of adobe
that was our world
the questions of our teachers went
gloriously for our ears like water
duck back
without disturbing the calm of the universe:
constituent parts of the flower
what the weasel family belongs
ozone preparation method will
Balmaceda political
Cancharayada surprise where to
the liberating army entered
pests in agriculture
how Cid begins
draw a differential pulley
and determine the condition
balance
The friendly reader will understand
that we wanted more than just
more than strictly necessary: \u200b\u200b
"determine the height of a cloud?
"estimate the volume of the pyramid?
show " that the root of two is an irrational number?
memorize "Couplets of Jorge Manrique?
of nonsense let yourself
us today we have to decide a championship but came
written tests and then
oral evidence
(in a scouring fell Caldera)
with a regularity worthy of a better cause:

electromagnetic theory of light
what distinguishes the minstrel of minstrel
Is it correct to say you sell eggs?
you know what an artesian well?
Chile classify birds
murder of Manuel
independence from French Guiana
hero or anti-hero Simon Bolivar
O'Higgins abdication speech
you are more hung than a bulb

teachers were right:
really really
the brain escaped us by the nose
-was to see how we were chattering teeth
what colors should rainbow
Magdeburg hemispheres
scientific name
swallow the frog metamorphosis
what categorical imperative Kant understands
how to convert Chilean pesos to pounds sterling
in Chile who introduced the hummingbird
why not drop the Tower of Pisa
why not come down the floating gardens of Babylon
why not the moon fall to earth?
departments of Ñuble
how trisecting a right angle
how many and what are the regular polyhedra
it has no clue

would have preferred that the earth swallow me
to answer those questions
wild especially after moralizing rhetoric
impajaritablemente subjected to us day by
do you know how much it costs the state
every Chilean citizen
from the moment you leave college?
a million pesos of six pence!

One million pesos sixpence
and kept pointing his finger
what explains the paradox Hydrostatic
how ferns reproduce
enuméreme the volcanoes of Chile
what is the world's longest river
how they reproduce elephants
inventor of the sewing machine inventor
balloons
you are more than a light bulb hanging
going to have to go home
and return with their attorneys
to talk with the Rector of the Establishment

And meanwhile the First World War
And while World War II
Adolescence patio at the back of
Youth under the table
The maturity that was not known
Aging
with insect wings.


© Nicanor Parra

Chilean poet

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