Oliverio Girondo #05 - Unending Astonishment

The sense of deficiency comes through this poem in the poet's declaration of the ineluctable. Coming from Persuasion of the Days, Girondo here uses the dog as an emblem of man; a dog which cannot be described, which is one of a kind &, ultimately, which makes him want to "break a chair".

There is a certain vision of existence that comes through, it would seem, the description of this dog who is similar to other dogs & at the same time quite distinguished from its mother & father. In this sense, he is an "orphan" and his reality is comparable to that of Vallejo's "orfandad de orfandades" in Trilce.