The building
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Once upon a time it was imposible to wonder.
Once upon a time a city, another city, every space that’s known as a city and what they hold inside
their guts.
Once upon a time the tar, the concrete, the noise, the windows facing nowhere.
Once upon a time a buildings and streets complex, the kind of anarchic government that rules it,
the dense and numerous population inhabiting it, busy with their own most important occupations.
And You. And Him.
What are two men living in the same building?
What are two men living
What are two men
What are
What
What are two men?
Two male sexed human beings
What is the male inside the human body?
What is the male sexed body?
What is
What
What is sex?
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Once upon a time You had your own name.
A proper noun, they call them.
A proper noun is the special word that we use for a person, place or organization, like John, Marie,
London, France or Sony. A name is a noun, but a very special noun – a proper noun. Proper nouns
have special rules.
Once upon a time walking meant walking towards You. Towards a proper noun with special rules
but without a metaphor. Tramping around the small section of the city that kept my body away from
the place that you called home.
A building.
A last floor.
And You.
It was around these days when I started to walk around the same path everyday. Looking for
reasons not to go there. Not to get there. Not to go up. Thinking about the other girls up and down
the elevator.
A building
A last floor.
And Him.
An older man who wasn’t You, who wouldn’t take off his sunglasses while in front of a camera with
who he discussed his job.
A job around, through and about the body.
A job from flesh to flesh.
In front of the camera.
A video camera is a device that captures images by converting them into electrical signals, in most
cases turning them into video signal, also known as television signal.
In other words, a video camera is an optical transducer.
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Once upon a time Him, an older man, spoke about a world unbeknownst to me. About the control
that happens when a body above another body. About the flesh we are and the flesh we desire.
About the flesh we are and the flesh we’ll become. About the flesh we are and the flesh we
consume.
A carnivore, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is “An animal that feeds on flesh.”
In front of the camera Him, who wasn’t really You but could have been, spoke about desire and
capitalism while actually speaking about the videos in which flesh against flesh, flesh rubbing flesh
penetrating flesh pushing flesh consuming flesh feeding on flesh devouring the flesh.
I’ve heard that what hurts of love it’s not love itself. What hurts about love, they say, is not what
they taught us when we were children. What hurts about love, I heard, is the language in which
love develops.
If I have learnt my lesson right.
Still, it takes us one conversation to learn that what hurts of love stops hurting from that darkened
place called lust. Or so I heard.
That’s why some of the us prefer the possibilities held inside our bodies.
That’s the reason why Him understood the organic relationship between money and flesh.
A body is a body is a body is a body.
A body is also profit.
Sex, as cinematography and love, exists inside its own language.
A video camera is an optical transducer.
I’m proud of turning regular girls into porn stars.
Eyes are also made of edible flesh.
A body is a body is a body is a body.
A body is also an optical transducer.
A body is also a translator.
A body is also a credit card number.
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Once upon a time that older man lived in the same building that made You appear the first time.
What are two men living in the same building?
That’s why I have already crossed the threshold one first time far before meeting You.
What is the male sexed body?
That was also the first time I learnt what flesh means through a lens.
What is sex?
Very few things prepare you for life as the notion that you can go body shopping.
What is love?
Flesh collapsing. A close up.
The sound that befalls penetration. The click of the tongue. The percentage of water loss. The
percentage of water exchange.
The consuming.
What is a camera?
The process of running camcorders begins with the decomposition of light from three components
(red, green and blue) through a prism of dichroic mirrors. On the other side of the prism are
sensors, which reconstruct the image and forwarded to the circuits preamplifiers.
What is pornography?
Cameras, as the body itself, are built with a gap to allow light coming through.
MarieJo Delgadillo is a Mexican journalist and multidisciplinary artist. Having worked for over six years interviewing artists, politicians and everyday people to find out about them, and publishing in newspapers and magazines both nationally and internationally, she is now expanding her own creative work. Currently interested in finding ways poetry and journalistic investigation can work together, exploring topics as pornography, fashion, capitalism and the idea of the body as a commodity. She is also a dance instructor. Her literary work in spanish can be read athttps://mariejodelgadillo.wordpress.com/ and she tweets as @MarieJoDel.