Abstract
The purpose of this text is to explore Antígona González's poem as an alternative form of creative writing that, using the technique coined as appropriation by Cristina Rivera Garza, establishes a communality of voices that share the same traumatic experience of losing a beloved one to the enforced disappearances that the War on Drugs caused on Mexico. Incorporating a pastiche of various sources, as well as utilizing the mythical figure of Antigone as an avatar for anyone searching for a corpse, Sara Uribe points to a phenomenon that does not occur accidentally or individually, but rather a systematic crisis caused by a negligent neoliberal state that affects everyone. Likewise, the use of appropriation and patchwork allows for the division of the pain of sharing these traumatic experiences and provides a technique to oppose the very nature of this voracious capitalism through a gesture that rejects the idea of writing as an individual act. Finally, the poem itself represents a site to bury and materialize these bodies that the state disappears.
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