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Painting by Patrick von Kalckreuth, Germany 1892-1970<\/em><\/p>\n When we were kids, Then when we were teens, By the time we got married, Now veterans, <\/p>\n Mario Benedetti<\/strong>, Uruguay (1920 \u2013 2009)<\/p>\n Translation Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Painting by Patrick von Kalckreuth, Germany 1892-1970 Pastime When we were kids, the old men were about thirty, a puddle was an ocean death flat and even\u2014 didn’t exist. Then when we were teens, old men were people in their forties, a pond was an ocean\u2014 death only a word By the time we got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5275,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5272\/revisions\/5275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPastime<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nthe old men were about thirty,
\na puddle was an ocean
\ndeath flat and even\u2014
\ndidn’t exist.<\/p>\n
\nold men were people in their forties,
\na pond was an ocean\u2014
\ndeath only
\na word<\/p>\n
\nthe old people were in their fifties,
\na lake was an ocean\u2014
\ndeath was the death
\nof the others.<\/p>\n
\nwe’ve caught up with the truth,
\nthe ocean is at last the ocean\u2014
\nbut death starts
\nto be ours.<\/p>\n
\nfrom \u201cAntolog\u00eda po\u00e9tica<\/strong>\u201d, Alianza Editorial, Madrid<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"