Ayotzinapa

By Juan Felipe Herrera

                         for the students, for Mexico, for the world

From Ayotzinapa we were headed toward Iguala to say to the
mayor that we wanted funds for our rural school for teachers
it was a protest for our school that is all rural teachers nothing
more nothing less we were protesting for funds that is all we were
surrounded by police and their cronies they fired their guns they
burned us they dismembered us in trash bags they threw us into the
river yet we continue yet we march from here from the bowels of
Mexico this river that floods all the schools and all the universities
and all the floors of the emperors' palaces we continue at twenty­-
four years of age we make way through the massacre here from
where we were born and from where we died toward all the cities
in the world toward all the students and teachers in the world
demonstrating on all the streets sprung open
incandescent

no one knew it no one saw it
               we are leaving this number              43 for you      
                                because there were      43 of us

we are
not disposable

9-26-14

-42    students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School went missing after police in the
city of Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico opened fire on their buses and kidnapped a group
of 43.

                                         — Notes on the Assemblage (2015) by Juan Felipe Herrera, p. 17

Notes on the Assemblage (2015)

Ayotzinapa

Por Juan Felipe Herrera

                      Para los estudiantes, para México, para el mundo

Íbamos de Ayotzinapa hacia Iguala para decide al alcalde que
queríamos fondos para nuestra escuela rural para maestros y
maestras era una protesta por nuestra escuela que es solo para
maestros y maestras rurales nada más nada menos protestábamos
solo por obtener algunos fondos fuimos rodeados por la policía
y sus cómplices nos dispararon quemaron nuestros cuerpos nos
desmembraron y en balsas de basura nos arrojaron al río pero
aún seguimos aun marchamos desde aquí desde las entrañas
de México este río que inunda todos los salones todas las
universidades y todos los pisos de los palacios de los emperadores
aún seguimos a los veinticuatro años de edad nos abrimos paso
a través de la masacre aquí desde donde nacimos desde donde
morimos hacia todas las ciudades del mundo hacia todos los
estudiantes y maestras y maestros del mundo protestando en
todas las calles súbitamente quebrando
incandescentes

nadie supo nadie lo vio
aquí dejamos este número                     43 para ti
porque éramos                            43 nosotros

no
somos
desechables

                                                                                                        26-9-14
                                                                    (Traducción de Lauro Flores)

                       --La fábrica (2018) de Juan Felipe Herrera, p. 19

La fábrica (2018)