A Misplaced World: Our Finding Endeavour
The Invitation (to our first topic)
We live in a misplaced world. A particle drowning in the infinity of the black universe. And damn it is black out there. Of course, we did not order the world to get lost in the intricacy of the cosmos, and, had we done it, it seldom obeys such small orders. But there are more fateful misplacements. We all get it; our world is miniature when compared with the galaxies and the nebulas. We can live with it. We did not lose our world in the middle of nowhere. Even if we had done it, we can fucking live with it. But the art of losing ‘s not so hard to master, and we are no exception. I never was a believer of poetic justice or fatal forces that drive humankind, much as I was never a supporter of communal guilt and historical punishment; nevertheless, we all have a tiny piece of human duty towards the current situation. We have all lost tiny specks of dust in the midst of a terrible carnage. Indirectly or not. Little specks of dust in the universe that have faces, lives, mothers and dreams. Little specks of dust that sew their mouths in a desperate effort to make their cause heard. Specks of dust with names, just like ours. Many times, even much more beautiful than those we value deeply. Mahmoud Darwich, the magnificent Palestinian poet of the XXth century, says (and I’m paraphrasing) that he had decided to be a Trojan poet because defeat has a more important poetic charge. He also points out that between the guard and the prisoner, it is only the prisoner who sings. The thing is we are all prisoners in front of such humanitarian chaos, such aberration, such cosmic sadness, and so, I feel that we have the necessity to sing out. No. Not the necessity. The duty. The guards won’t sing out. They can’t. We, on the other hand, must.
The first topic, for the January-February 2016 issue, (see our restructuring) will be Misplaced persons. It does not necessarily have to be interpreted as a topic about the Middle East refugee crisis, although this is the stronger part of the essence of this topic. The submission period will start January the 12th and end the last day of February. Send in any piece of art that has this motive.
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