Happiness. Merry Christmas and Happy 2010

HAPPINESS

Traditionally the Christmas collaborates to the jollification and to the happiness.

Also there are days in which our memory goes for those persons who are already not between us. We want to enjoy the presents but also not to forget the absent ones.

From this modest publication I want to express, on behalf of all that we make Magazine Atticus possible, the sincere desire of which you spend one: Merry Christmas! and one: Happy 2010! That the happiness presides at most of our acts during the next year. y un ¡Feliz 2010! Que la alegría presida la mayoría de nuestros actos durante el próximo año.

 

I come to the poems of one of the persons who are already not between us: Mario Benedetti and that expressed of magisterial form our feeling for 2010

 

DEFENSE OF THE HAPPINESS

 

To defend the happiness as a trench
to defend it from the scandal and the routine
of the misery and the wretches
of the transitory absences
and the definitive ones
to defend the happiness as a beginning
to defend it from the amazement and the nightmares
of the neutral ones and of the neutrons
of the sweet infamy
and the serious diagnoses

to defend the happiness as a flag
to defend it from the beam and the melancholy
of the ingenuous ones and of the scoundrels
of the rhetoric and the cardiac unemployments
of the endemias and the academies

to defend the happiness as a destination
to defend it from the fire and from the firemen
of the suicides and the killers
of the holidays and of the burden
of the obligation to be happy

to defend the happiness as a certainty
to defend it from the oxide and from the dirt
of the famous patina of the time
of the dew and of the opportunism
of the procurers of the laugh

to defend the happiness as a right
to defend it from god and of the winter
of the capital letters and of the death
of the surnames and pities
of the hazard
and also of the happiness.

Text: Mario Benedetti

Photo: Scene Neapolitan nativity scene, National museum School of San Gregorio, Valladolid

The number 9 of Magazine Atticus is somewhere here below.

Luisjo

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