Hello, this is Indy from Alarpa. Normally I'm here making a crazy video with my partner
in crime, but today I'm just going to do a simple poetry reading. You might have seen
some of our poems before. We've done very artistic things. We've went to the Retiro
Park and we've put different images together for different videos. I did a video yesterday
which is about the city and living in the city and all the culture contained when in
a place like that. I used the interior of the house to convey lots of the themes and
images contained in that poem. In that sense, I guess, drawing a little bit on the experience
of Padona Rula who wrote a lot about common things. He really felt they had a very important
place in our life and even other artists like Van Gogh who celebrated peasants and the normal
lives and painted things, such as his work boots or his room. I feel and of course a
lot of people would share that opinion as well that these common objects, these everyday
objects, these everyday interiors and structures that define our world in many ways have a
power beyond what you might see on the surface level. So that was the poetry video I made
yesterday. Today I just want to do a simple one, a poetry reading because, A, we haven't
really done it for a long, long time. It's nice to do something a little bit different
and it's not my poem. It's a poem by Charles Bukowski who is a poet I really, really like.
This is a book called The Continual Condition. I think this book proves several things, one
of which is never lend or borrow a book because if you lend it, you'll never get it back.
In this case, I've borrowed it from a friend of mine, another poet called Yanito whose
video I've made recently as well. I'll put a link in the description and I've had this
for two years now I think and I haven't given it back. But then again, the poetry is so
good. I think it's hard to let go of Mr. Bukowski. I'm going to read a poem called
A Good Place and after I read it, I think you'll see why I chose it because I think
it just continues on the trends. I've just mentioned it with Neruda and Otaratis and
also builds a little bit on my poem yesterday which is called Song of the City and again,
I'll link in the description. Without further ado, I will just read this wonderful poem
by Bukowski. So A Good Place. On any given day, whether you are feeling good or standard
or bad, you can sit in this place among the docks and pick yourself out of spider. Crap
I fucked that up. So on any given day, whether you are feeling good or standing or bad, you
can sit in this place among the docks and pick yourself out of spider. Crap. For 120
pound, fresh and live, they will cook it for you and you can take a wooden hammer and
piece of paper to a slivered wooden table and watch the commercial fishbowl docked
there while you crack your spider crab and eat it in the sunset and suck it in your beard
while the people around you are easy and normal and tired. Yeah, hammered out spider
crab. Well the sun shines, true to be here. So there, your reading of it might be different,
you might put the intonation in different parts but then again, it's all a part of
our relationship with a specific poem. Sorry for the mistake I made in the first reading
of it and also as well I thought it was appropriate because most videos go and live on YouTube
and if you're having a good day, a bad day or just a standard day, that's a place you
can go to as well, either as a creator or just to consume content and I know a lot of
YouTubers are very popular as well. So well, thank you for watching this video. You can
find us on LAPA.com which is our new website and so new I've forgotten the name, it's
LAPAMedia.com and LAPA1 is our Twitter. We're also on Instagram but let us build up the
content first before we start plugging our handle on that. So thank you very much and
I'll see you soon.
