Ven Morir de Muerta Natural Conmigo

The underground beckoned freedom,
Con encanto de las fuerzas del mal.
The beats of a thousand hearts,
Those dark caverns yielded
Slivers of iridescent light,
Clarity, understanding,
Destroyed demons
Destroyed deceptive walls,
Tunnels of fire.
Yes, tremendous fear existed,
Trembling with the sorrow
Of remoteness,
The exile of darkness.
Breathing became impossible.
Fire consumed
With the blood of a beautiful, delicate woman in its veins No more alone then it had ever been,
It asked, "Should I become the desconocido I once was?"
The underground lived no mas.

False Dress

Sleep had fallen
With the noxious smell
Of bitter oleander
Stuck to too-brown shoes.
Sleep offered my heart en teocalli.
Tongues had grown thick
From the hollowness spoken into them,
Words with the stench
Of dried algae,
Of mollusks, dead
From too-much sun
"Blessed is he who hungers!"
A false dress fluttered
In the darkness.
Awakened, the stench was gone.

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Biography

Juan Beauregaard-Montez was born in Chiapas, Mexico in 1950, the bastard son of a Zapatista guerilla and an English diplomat. For reasons of state security and to avoid scandal he was reared by Moravian missionaries where according to Juan, "he was taught how to hate". He went on to study classic literature in France.

This upbringing manifested in Juan joining his father in the Chiapas mountains as a guerilla. Juan's hatred of injustice solidified and his love of common people blossomed.

Although he had received a classical education and had studied art at the Sorbonne and poetry under the auspices of Yves Bonnefoy at the Lysee Mercure he became the fiercest and most feared of all the revolutionaries in the region.

Juan's mother pleaded with his father to convince Juan to return to Europe where he could better fight the battle for his people's liberation before The Hague and the European Union.

Today, Juan continues his battles on several fronts, writes columns and articles under several pseudonyms and some of the world's most beautiful, important poetry under the name of Juan Beauregaard-Montez.