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Solo por hoy
Lyric video de “Solo por hoy” por Gustavo Cote Creado por It’s Ugly Design Música producida por Pol Moreno & Gustavo Cote Composición y Arreglos por Pol Moreno Mezcla y Masterización por Pol Moreno© 2025
Intro
Intro: Producción edición y color: Felipe Flórez RamosProducción musical: Pol MorenoActriz: Laura Perico© 2024
El mantel más lindo del mundo
El cielo estatan hambriento deamorque puso un mantel de nubespara no comernos.
Armónica
Compré un kit para aprender a tocar la armónica: libro, CD y armónica. Han pasado más de 10 años y aún no sé tocarla. Hemos paseado continentes, empaco y desempaco, empaco y desempaco, y ahí está. Me dije, ¿para qué carajos la compré?, otra compra inútil, otra promesa incumplida, otra procrastinación. Nos miramos fijamente y algo en ella me conmovió. Decidí rendirle un homenaje, sanar mi amargura y autoculpa: escribí este poema. Muchas veces, lo que compramos para un fin determinado nos termina enseñando algo totalmente inesperado. No necesito aprender a tocar la armónica para disfrutarla ¿Y qué si nunca toco la armónica? ¿Y qué si dije que haría algo y no lo hago?
Eating my chocolate when sick
I am sick at home. I decided to go to the store to buy some ginger, lemons, and chocolate. On the way, I was glad to know that I would buy some chocolate and eat it sitting on the sofa at home, and I would do just that, just that. I would fully enjoy it; it would be a meditative act. I sat on the sofa and became deeply absorbed in the moment without having opened the chocolate. I finally opened it and put it on a medium-sized round yellow plate; raisins and nuts jumped onto it. What a beautiful painting! I didn’t want to taste it, I was delighted just by looking at it closely. I thought that by eating my chocolate, I would perform an act of provocation to my sick self by rebelling and not succumbing to the apathy of malady. I would shock the gods of pleasure, and those other pleasures I didn’t even know would be jealous. And so this poem began.
Gustavo Cote – After October 7, 2023
Intro: Producción edición y color: Felipe Flórez RamosProducción musical: Pol MorenoActriz: Laura Perico© 2024
After October 7
This poem was written in December 2023 in Amman, during my evacuation period after the outbreak of the war in Gaza. It started as an attempt to fight my self-judgment, and the sense of powerlessness, pain, and frustration I felt during those months. I felt so empty and alienated from humanity. Shaken by the heinous situation, I saw myself as an answering machine, repeating the same thing over and over again when talking to friends and colleagues in Israel and Palestine: “How are you?”; such a mundane greeting seemed completely absurd in those circumstances. Here I grief, I mourn, I condemn, I pray, and especially, I hold close to my heart and honor special people who, with their relentless courage and sumud, showed me the value of caring and loving each other amid the war, including by graciously asking “how are you?”
