BY Regis Bonvicino

Translation Odile Cisneros

Garbpoem

Her teeth could merchandize

pot

though they merchandize Colgate

droplet earrings hang from her earlobes

to sell or vender

her feet don't tread on false ground

and stride barefoot

in a clip or a film

her feet advertise

incorruptible plastic sandals

b(p)rutish Venus

drinks any old drink, backstage,

now at times looks

like a transvestite

also

now Hollywood is at her feet

she poses, full of herself

she shows off her silicon breasts

she wears coats, in winter, from otter's fur

or from some other species

her head is full of hidden cocaine

she admits to having hobbies among which

her favorite one: performing blow jobs

it's more aseptic, under control,

and saves her clitoris

keeping the smell of cosmetics

on her body and clothes

on her lips, botox

her nose advertises an allegorical scent

from her long and wavy hair,

blind letters fall, they occasionally

flash back, she wears a choker

she cleans her own tongue

mainly the back side

with a new product

to freshen her breath

she sells no clothes

she sells her lips

the lips sell her mouth

a cornucopia of herself

she listens to techno and hip hop

she fingers the white lines

She can't read or write

Anything but her name

Odile Cisneros is a critic, writer and translator born in Mexico. Her translations and essays have been published in Sibila (São Paulo, Brazil), Poesía y poética (Mexico City, Mexico), Sibila (Seville, Spain), Ecopoetics (Buffalo, NY), Chain (Philadelphia), Circumference (New York), Tse-tsé (Buenos Aires), and Literatura mexicana (Mexico City), Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas (New York). She has translated the poetry of Régis Bonvicino, Haroldo de Campos, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, and the Nobel laureate, Jaroslav Seifert, among others. The volume Novas: Selected Writings of Haroldo de Campos, co-edited by Cisneros is due out from Northwestern University Press in January 2005. She also teaches Latin American Literature and Culture and translation at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Links:

http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/MLCS/department/staff/cisneros.htm

http://regis.sites.uol.com.br/poemas/33poems.htm