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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: DALTON, ROQUE Matches Found: 220 Dalton, Roque Poet's Biography 220 poems available by this author 27 YEARS Poem Text First Line: It is a serious thing Subject(s): Mortality; Aging 27 YEARS First Line: It's a serious thing Last Line: To live forever 35 YEARS First Line: But chastity, smelly old hag, shriveled up snake Last Line: And sadness trots on like a mule 50TH ANNIVERSARY First Line: A man steps out into his backyard patio Last Line: He raises his glass %and drinks ACT First Line: In the name of those washing others' clothes ADVICE THAT IS NO LONGER NECESSARY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD First Line: Don't ever forget Last Line: Among fascists %also are %fascists AGREED: IT'S TRUE THAT YOU LOOK LIKE MAY BRITT First Line: Your hair is something else again AND DREAMS, ARE JUST DREAMS: 1. INTERNATIONAL RED AID EL SAL First Line: Comrade: %we hope at this definitive hour that you do not become Last Line: Desperate situation. The struggle is one of life and death AND DREAMS, ARE JUST DREAMS: 2. THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE AS SEN First Line: (background music: the military band of the national guard Last Line: To national traditions) %more or less %fascist AND DREAMS, ARE JUST DREAMS: 3. (1974) N First Line: During the spanish colonial period Last Line: The protection of their fleet ANOTHER DEAD WOMAN First Line: My boyhood was a lustrous orange Last Line: And I'm starting to sprout gray hairs ART OF POETRY First Line: Anguish exists. %man uses his old disasters like a mirror Last Line: Who should the poet's voice be for? ARTE POÉTICA First Line: La angustia existe Last Line: Para quien debera Subject(s): Hambre; PoesÍa Y Poetas ARTS POETICA Poem Text First Line: Anguish exists Last Line: For whom shall the voice of the poet speak? Subject(s): Hunger; Poetry & Poets; Vengeance ARTS POETICA First Line: Anguish exists Last Line: For whom shall the voice of the poet speak? Subject(s): Hunger; Poetry And Poets; Vengeance BAD EXAMPLE First Line: They made me choose between selling out and the wall Last Line: I hope at least the little children will come unto me BAD NEWS ON A SCRAP OF NEWSPAPER First Line: Nowadays when my friends die Last Line: To let the sound play down the news BECAUSE I SPOKE OUT First Line: The last hired mourner went off Last Line: Maybe then I'll be strong enough to make the truth less bitter BETWEEN DAGGER AND MACHETE First Line: Robbers (nocturnal attackers) of san salvador Last Line: By sufficient merits in the struggle against the pipil *people BOURGEOISIE First Line: Those who produce liquor Last Line: Those who %in effect %have everything to lose BUREAUCRATS First Line: The bureaucrats swim in a storm sea of boredom Last Line: That their father was a carpenter BUSCÁNDOME LÍOS First Line: La noche de mi Last Line: Mi madre me Subject(s): Dinero; Problemas Sociales; Trabajo Y Trabajadores CAPTAIN First Line: The captain in his hammock the captain Last Line: In the same darkness as those he hunts down CERTAINTY First Line: After four hours of torture, the apache and the two other cops Last Line: Of course they continued torturing him Subject(s): Politics CESAR VALLEJO First Line: This dead body bursting into flower Last Line: The world is much heavier since his death CONSOLATIONS OF SOUL SAVING First Line: Agustin farabundo marti, %letting it pass when the priest Last Line: That they refused the consolations of those soul-savers COPS AND THE GUARDS First Line: They always saw the people Last Line: And with more rifles all the time CRAZY ONES First Line: Names have never sat well with us crazy ones Last Line: But we'll forget about this too CREDO OF CHE First Line: Che jesus christ %was taken prisoner Last Line: For centuries and centuries %amen DATE First Line: Your naked spirit is eternity Last Line: And the name of the beach DE UN REVOLUCIONARIO A J.L. BORGES First Line: Es que para nuestro Last Line: Otra infamia... DEAD GIRL IN THE OCEAN First Line: Because you had returned the ethereal body of that girl to me Last Line: Owner of my dead girl DECISION First Line: And though the heart may not be the spirited creature we had hoped Last Line: Complicity in its obstinate warmth DEER First Line: It has the loveliest eyes on earth, so much like lisa's. A perfect Last Line: The rabies of wild animals DESERT First Line: The hot wind whistles its nails Last Line: What can we do compadre %just like god says DISCIPLE First Line: Hieronymus bosch must have been the only sane man Last Line: I'm sleepy now %get out of here! DISTRIBUTION OF PEOPLE'S PROPERTY IN THE THIEVES' MARKET First Line: They've told us that the executive power Last Line: On the heads of the merchants DIVINE VICTORY First Line: This jehovah's witness stuff Last Line: Better known as %armageddon DREAM FAR AWAY FROM TIME First Line: There was a time Last Line: They've stayed behind. %dead EL DESCANSO DEL GUERRERO First Line: Los muertos estan Last Line: De ser cada vez Subject(s): Cementerios; Guerra; Muerte EL SALVADOR WILL BE First Line: El salvador will be a pretty Last Line: Sitz-baths kisses and gunpower EL SALVADOR, COUNTRY WITH A HEART First Line: Clearly a little beheaded Last Line: And the oligarchy) %without stomach EPIGRAM IN IMITATION OF MARCIAL First Line: You have rebuked, oh shafo, in the forum Last Line: But nothing have you despised so much as their very wisdom, their age of reason EPITAPH First Line: He planted his garden with a bayonette Last Line: This epitaph was the only thing he still had coming to him EPITAPH First Line: He showed up on a day like many others Last Line: Threw the first handful of dirt right in his face FEAR Poem Text First Line: A single angel on the head of a pin Subject(s): Fear FEAR First Line: A solitary angel on the tip of a pin Last Line: Hears someone taking a piss FIRSTBORN First Line: Being afraid isn't the worst possible thing Last Line: The sailors throw to the bottom of the sea, %to great applause FIRSTBORN First Line: I on the other hand weep for my soul Last Line: Pah! Maybe I'll drink less tomorrow FORGETTING First Line: Last night I dreamed that someone told me: your love is dead Last Line: And she died - they told me - without saying your name FROM A REVOLUTIONARY TO J. L. BORGES Poem Text First Line: According to our code of honor Last Line: Another infamy Subject(s): Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986); Writing & Writers FROM A REVOLUTIONARY TO J. L. BORGES First Line: According to our code of honor Last Line: Another infamy Subject(s): Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986); Writing And Writers HATING LOVE First Line: I don't believe in angels Last Line: Is the enemy in my chest HEAD AGAINST THE WALL Poem Text First Line: Matter is hard HEADACHES Poem Text First Line: It is beautiful to be communist, Subject(s): Communism HISTORY OF A POET First Line: So there was once upon a time a poet Last Line: Are nothing but the quintessential truth HITLER MAZZINI: COMPARISON BETWEEN CHILE IN 1974 AND EL SAL First Line: It doesn't surprise me that they slander Last Line: The rest %were considered missing HITLER MAZZINI: COMPARISON BETWEEN CHILE IN 1974 AND EL SALVADOR IN First Line: It doesn't surprise me that they slander Last Line: The rest %were considered disappeared HOMAGE TO SAGE First Line: The leaves of sage that, when wrapped around hot ash are the best Last Line: Tarantula and the poisonous lizard, and cures nausea I REMEMBER WHEN I'D TALK OF LISA First Line: One day I was walking through the streets of vienna Last Line: Saying your name out loud I SEE First Line: I think they've lied to us enough Last Line: And I'll be the one %to take care of the wounds I SMELL BAD First Line: I smell like the color of mourning on days Last Line: I smell like when it's too late for anything I WANTED Poem Text First Line: I wanted to talk about life of all its melodious I WANTED First Line: I wanted to talk about life of all its melodious Last Line: And I can't give you more - closed %door of poetry - %than my own corpse beheaded in the sand I WANTED First Line: I wanted to talk about life and all its song-filled Last Line: Than my own headless corpse in the sand IN A FIT OF ANGER First Line: O country of mine you do not exist Last Line: Makes you an ex-patria IN CASE OF DOUBT First Line: Karl marx %awe-struck before a butterfly Last Line: As for me I'll get me a gun IN THE FUTURE First Line: When our society is Last Line: I had tendencies toward sexual aberrations INDEPENDENCE DAY First Line: Today is indendence day: I woke up half rotted away on the Last Line: With the heady gasses of the anthems all around me INSOMNIA First Line: The sky is a huge lake the lake Last Line: Once again it's four %in the morning ISLAND ON THE FIFTH FLOOR First Line: It's not the heat, no Last Line: Also remained on the other side of the smoke IT COULD BE First Line: For the bourgeoisie Last Line: And perhaps even to god JEALOUSY First Line: You will cry for your crazy child JUAN CUNJAMA, SORCERER First Line: My old skin %snake skin Last Line: Over the trees and the sea JUBILANT POEM Poem Text First Line: In my country, testing for catapults and snares Subject(s): Love JUBILANT POEM First Line: In my country, made for testing catapults and snares JUBLIANT POEM First Line: In my country made for testing catapults and snares LA PEQUEÑA BURGUESÍA First Line: Los que %en el mejor Last Line: Naturaleza %y futuro Subject(s): Luchas; Problemas Sociales LADY ANN First Line: The gentry are a sad lot here Last Line: With beaks like knives LATIN AMERICA First Line: The poet face to face with the moon Last Line: On the rough wall of a barracks LAW ENFORCER First Line: I'm old %as old as your hope Last Line: I'm from over there, guys, %don't blame me LEAVES First Line: Fallen leaves %silent blades aggressive in a delicate way Last Line: And yet, what a huge insult spring means to us! LIFE, WORKS First Line: Inevitable in life Last Line: From action to action, %from life to life LIKE THE EVERLASTING First Line: My poetry's %like the everlasting Last Line: Sap, %sunlight %of tenderness LIKE YOU Poem Text Subject(s): Politics & Government LIKE YOU Poem Text First Line: Like you I / love love, life, the sweet smell Subject(s): Politics & Government LIKE YOU First Line: Like you I %love love, life, the sweet smell Last Line: The poetry of everyone Subject(s): Politics LISTEN First Line: Listen, all of you Last Line: Mine alone and closest to my heart LITTLE LETTER First Line: Dear philosophers Last Line: Is the other nation LOOKING FOR TROUBLE Poem Text First Line: The night of my first cell meeting it was pouring rain Last Line: Mother scolded me for coming home late Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Strikes; Wages; Work; Workers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts; Salaries LOOKING FOR TROUBLE First Line: The night of my first cell meeting it was pouring rain Last Line: Mother scolded me for coming home late Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Labor Unions; Strikes; Wages LOVE POEM Poem Text First Line: Those who widened the panama canal Last Line: My compariots, / my brothers Subject(s): Central America LOVE POEM First Line: Those who widened the panama canal Last Line: My compatriots %my brothers Subject(s): Central America LOVE STORY: 1. THE BEGINNING First Line: We met in st. Jacob's, one afternoon in october. An english Last Line: Filled with hallelujahs, hosannas, and so on LOVE STORY: 2. WRITTEN ON A NAPKIN First Line: I raise my glass, comrades Last Line: Let us eat and drink, comrades LOVE STORY: 3. REFLECTION IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR First Line: Foreigner: %you've made your heart run too fast Last Line: You love her very much LOVE STORY: 4. THE PASSING YEARS First Line: Sadness doesn't meet your needs anymore Last Line: What I mean is, %my doctor LOVE STORY: 5. LETTER First Line: The wounds you cause are in good health. In other words, their Last Line: Goodbye that wants more than anything in the world to be civilized and friendly MADRIGAL First Line: She was more beautiful than a czechoslovak factory Last Line: At the headquarters of the national guard MARIA TECUN First Line: Story-book days when you loved me without asking questions Last Line: A sad little boy's who would still like to play MARIANO THE MUSICIAN HAS DIED First Line: There are no birds now where the piano sat waiting Last Line: Made sweet music in them %as mariano did MATTHEW First Line: The snoring of the virgins asleep I the second class car Last Line: Made me vomit until I bled MATTHEW First Line: The tropics, an unending fatigue Last Line: The rainy season is our only consolation MATTHEW First Line: By contradiction blessed, we're all-powerful, my love Last Line: You, who are myself MEETING WITH AN OLD POET First Line: Yesterday I happened to bump face-to-face into Last Line: And headed for the other side of the street like one who's suddenly thirsty MEGALOMANIA First Line: Frederick ii was emperor of the high-and-mighty germans and yet Last Line: And save my artless vanity forever MEMORY First Line: They were like that those afternoons of our first youth Last Line: Such a small name you had and it was in a song popular then MEMORY AND QUESTIONS First Line: While I'm listening to a rector's talk Last Line: In this temple of merchants MIDDLE AGE First Line: Gone are the years of your hot-blooded ways Last Line: It's out of the oven MINOR CHORUS OF THE FIFTH CELL First Line: Once again they've closed the cell door Last Line: And the door of the cell is closed, %closed, closed, closed, %closed, %closed MONDAY First Line: Six o'clock in the morning Last Line: I wouldn't want to forget how to laugh MORAL ON THE TOOL First Line: When the stone-cutter Last Line: Because of its resistant and tenacious nature MORNING I MET MY FATHER First Line: I guess I would be some three years old, maybe a little less. I'm Last Line: To do. In the street a car hurries away with a groan MY COUNTRY'S FAR AWAY First Line: Far from this world, far Last Line: And the saint is a tongue-tied clown MY HORSE First Line: I owned a horse Last Line: And the shock on my face put the winds to flight MY NEIGHBOR First Line: He has a rather plain wife Last Line: Now he's in prison: %he's also a communist, so they say Subject(s): Communism; El Salvador NAKED WOMAN First Line: I love your nakedness Last Line: Just as you were born again between my thighs NATIONAL SOUL First Line: Dismembered country, you slip Last Line: And the nice kid into a hungry mugger NEW SCHOOLS First Line: In ancient greece Last Line: Through the cities and mountains of our land NO, I WASN'T ALWAYS THIS UGLY First Line: The truth is my nose got broken Last Line: That explains at least part of my problem NOT EXACTLY OPTIMISTIC TRAGEDY First Line: Oranges from cuba in na prikope! I don't know why they Last Line: Grown out of the head of my shadow. All this is very hard for a soldier of the revolution NOW YOU SEE WHY... First Line: Now you see why out of everything you wished for Last Line: And think that despite everything life is sweet NUMBER 357 First Line: The guards are divided into several groups. For instance, those who Last Line: The chimaltenango mountains for him to have as a keepsake after they kill me OLD COMMUNISTS AND GUERRILLAS First Line: There have been good people in the country Last Line: Though the revolution will end up being for all good people OLD WOMAN WITH SMALL BOY First Line: Frightened hunched over Last Line: Absolutely taken with the birds flying past ON BIBLICAL BUSINESS Poem Text First Line: The bible says Last Line: Who’ve been throughly trained by their generals Subject(s): Politics & Government ON BIBLICAL BUSINESS First Line: The bible says Last Line: Who've been thoroughly trained by their generals Subject(s): Politics ON MODERN APPLIED SCIENCES First Line: Ecology is the echo Last Line: Is to continue being a business ON OUR POETIC MORAL First Line: Don't be mistaken, we're poets who write Last Line: With our lives -- the opportunity to get back at us day after day ON THE PREVIOUS POEM First Line: The intollerable marxist revisionism Last Line: And that's all, folks, for easy beans %and tranquility ON THE PROFIT MARGIN OR THE BOSS ROBS EVERY WORKER TWICE OVE First Line: The woman's domestic functions Last Line: To cover all the expenses %of domestic functions ONLY THE BEGINNING First Line: One of my somewhat poetic friends Last Line: To earn a hundred years of pardon OVERLOOK First Line: That is a horizon that makes one say Last Line: Nothing, except love, brings tears to my eyes PACK OF HOUNDS First Line: Bros. Ricardo fuentes castellanos Last Line: Salivatingly lying in ambush %for all progress PARABLE BEGINNING WITH REVISIONIST VULCANOLOGY First Line: The volcano of izalco Last Line: Whey then should we want to carry it %in our heart PASSING THE FACTORY First Line: While skin trembles under rough shirts Last Line: Tomorrow sunday morning PASSING TRUCK First Line: I read on the side of a passing truck Last Line: Cheap labor installations PERMISSION TO WASH UP First Line: I never understood what a labyrinth was Last Line: The darling sons of mildew, bad smells and rats PETIT BOURGEOSIE First Line: Those who %in the best of cases Last Line: Their own science %nature %and future PETTY BOURGEOISIE First Line: Those who %in most cases Last Line: Nature %and future Subject(s): History; Humanitarianism; Revolutions PINE First Line: The green monk lifts its austere presence through the fog but Last Line: Woodcutters' monotonous thumping POEM OF LOVE First Line: The ones who widened the panama canal POEMS-IN-LAW TO LISA First Line: Lisa: %from the moment I started loving you Last Line: Ah lisa, lisa, %I'm a terrible wreck POETIC ART 1974 First Line: Poetry %forgive me for having helped you understand Last Line: You're not made of words alone POETICUS EFICACCIAE First Line: You can judge Last Line: Through the eyes of a satirical poet POPE First Line: Grandfather with cheeks like puffy clouds Last Line: By farmers with callused hands and tunics smelly with sweat PREPARING THE NEXT HOUR First Line: I wish I didn't have to think about my fate. Somehow Last Line: Yes. I'll ask for a cigarette PRISON AGAIN First Line: Prison again, black fruit Last Line: Even without a dog PRODIGAL SON - PART 18 First Line: Once again the deep abyss, the old Last Line: For us to just sit here pleading patiently for a verdict. %we're not alone PROPHECY ON PROPHETS First Line: Since the word should be Last Line: For centuries upon centuries %for ever and ever PROPOSITION First Line: Private property, in effect Last Line: For all the nation RELATIVE First Line: I remember it as if it had just happened. He was sitting in his wheel Last Line: Store. My grandfather started talking: 'if I were...' and died REVI(SIONIST) LOGIC First Line: Criticism of the soviet union Last Line: A self-criticism is equal to suicide REVISIONISM Poem Text First Line: Not always Subject(s): Opium RHYMES ON NATIONAL HISTORY First Line: He lost his seat on the way to sevilla Last Line: Guerrilla, guerrilla, guerrilla, guerrilla, guerrilla RITE FOR THE BIRTH OF A FLOWER ON THE GREAT PYRAMID First Line: I'm leaving you this little mouthful of water Last Line: To make you smile and pronounce a flower SALVADOREAN WORKER THINKS ABOUT THE FAMOUS CASE OF SAN JOS First Line: The catholic church, historically Last Line: Of the bourgeoisie's wanting to rob from the proletariat even marxism SAMANTHA First Line: My brother, my love Last Line: Tomorrow, so soon old and apathetic SAMANTHA First Line: With the lead paint of beauty Last Line: So she won't step on the snakes dying from the cold SAUDADE First Line: Things life has given me Last Line: You'd all better get out of my way SAYINGS First Line: Marxism-leninism is a rock ...' SEA First Line: There are great stones in your tempestuous darkness Last Line: And get ready to live up to the dream that draws near SEEING YOU NAKED First Line: Minuscule fish of the imagination Last Line: The girl of whom I always dreamed? SIR THOMAS (1) First Line: In this sunlight %I look like the raw belly of a fetus Last Line: If only a man could hold on to his religion! SIR THOMAS (2) First Line: From out of the eyes of the stag pasturing Last Line: Ah, the old duties of manhood SIR THOMAS (3) First Line: The horizon is the least useful thing in all creation.' Last Line: That my bruised soul faces at breakfast time. %world: collapse! SIXTH COMMANDMENT First Line: The naked theologians have gone down to the beach Last Line: Visited only by the blue birds %of peace SMALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT First Line: When you know I'm dead don't say my name SOCIAL BEING DETERMINES SOCIAL CONSCIENCE First Line: The bells of autumn make the first snow difficult Last Line: (the social being plays ping-pong with one's conscience especially in winter) SOLDIER'S REST Poem Text First Line: The dead grow more intractable every day Last Line: They are the majority Subject(s): War SOLDIER'S REST First Line: The dead are growing more restless each day Last Line: That they outnumber us more every day SOLDIER'S REST First Line: The dead grow more intractable every day Last Line: They are the majority! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Heroism; Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.) SOME LONGINGS First Line: This proud suffering is a callused privilege Last Line: Passing off as a drunken inmate in the next cell SOME OF THE FIRST PROPOSALS FOR THE EPITAPH First Line: Of few men can it be said that they continue existing after death exactly Last Line: Ramirez, judging by the tone of his sermons, was an ill-humored fart of god SONGS FOR CIVILIANS First Line: If you don't know, civilian Last Line: With this electric prod to your testicles SPRINGTIME IN JEVANI First Line: Androgynous colors, a true patagonia of colors that jump out at Last Line: But just the same, long live the springtime! STATISTICS ON FREEDOM First Line: Freedom of the press for salvadoran people Last Line: For freedom of the press STILLBORN PARABLE First Line: The beetle who loves to quarry dung Last Line: As for those who are naked, that's their business STORM First Line: Another glassful of dust Last Line: Someone has lighted the candles they had forgotten all about STUDY WITH A LITTLE TEDIUM First Line: Fifteen years old and I cry every night Last Line: While the skin weighing me down swallows the shade SUMMER First Line: I feel the sunburns Last Line: Begin to crawl with lice SUNDAY MORNING First Line: I pick at the guitar naked Last Line: I'm thinking and go on thinking SURE HAND OF GOD First Line: After all my poor little general Last Line: For the time being %in ahuachapan prison TAVERN First Line: The old poets and the new poets too Last Line: To the bird of paradise TENSE CONVERSATION First Line: What would you do if your worst enemies Last Line: You or your enemies? %see your later, %friend TERRIBLE THING First Line: My tears, even my tears Last Line: I've had a taste of gunpowder THE CERTAINTY Poem Text First Line: After four hours of torture, the apache and the two other cops Last Line: His right eye is glass Subject(s): Politics & Government THE FALLING OF THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS Poem Text First Line: The dead are more unmanageable every day Subject(s): Death; Liberty; Dead, The THE NATIONAL DAY Poem Text First Line: Today was the day of the mother country: I woke up with the means to Subject(s): Patriotism THE PETTY BOURGEOISIE Poem Text First Line: Those who / in most cases Last Line: Nature / and future Subject(s): History; Humanitarianism; Revolutions; Historians THERAPEUTICS First Line: The writers prepared a deadly book Last Line: Used to cross the border THINGS THEY SAY Poem Text First Line: Marxismo-leninismo is a rock Subject(s): Communism THIRD POEM OF LOVE First Line: Whoever tells you our love is extraordinary Last Line: Love in el salvador TIED DOWN TO THE SEA First Line: Surrounded by the dirty foam, beneath Last Line: Lend me your blindness TIME FOR ASHS First Line: September draws to a close. It's time to tell you Last Line: I have this wild itch to laugh %or kill myself TO POETRY First Line: I welcome you poetry Last Line: To finalize its old pre-history %of grief and blood TOADSTOOLS: 8 First Line: In my last jail I prayed on two different occasions. Inconsistent, I know Last Line: That this was really a dirty trick TOADSTOOLS: 9 First Line: I admit that my poetry is not what it used to be, the kind father landarech Last Line: Even if I had to do it just to get that girl into bed with me TOWARD A BETTER LOVE Poem Text First Line: No one disputes that sex Subject(s): Sex; Politics & Government TOWARD A BETTER LOVE Poem Text First Line: No one discusses sex Subject(s): Politics & Government; Sex TOWARD A BETTER LOVE First Line: No one discusses sex Last Line: When all those secrets that kept is %masked and alien are revealed Subject(s): Politics; Sex TRICK First Line: When I went to see him in his coffin Last Line: With fun and good lovin' TROPICS First Line: Noon strikes %like the shattering of the clay pigeons Last Line: Move your side of burning coals away from me, naked one TWO POEMS ON URBAN BUSES: 1. First Line: The august dame of the middle class Last Line: Bottle endowed with a rag fuse lit for the occasion Subject(s): Buses; Cities TWO POEMS ON URBAN BUSES: 2. ELEMENTAL MARXISM First Line: He is an idealist who defines a bus as an automotive vehicle Last Line: Has on things and their human uses Subject(s): Buses; Cities; Communism TWO RELIGIONS First Line: When revolution is outlined on the horizon Last Line: (like true communists) %the salt of the earth ULTRALEFTISTS First Line: The pipiles %who didn't understand the cross and more advanced culture Last Line: That still beats on in the ultraleft of the chest VANITY First Line: Mine would be a great death Last Line: The way I looked into your eyes VARIATIONS ON A PHRASE BY CHRIST First Line: Render unto god that which is god's Last Line: Ripping us off for everything VERNACULAR ELEGY FOR FRANCISCO SORTO First Line: For nine years francisco sorto VIOLENCE HERE First Line: Violence will not be the midwife Last Line: And ready the new houses WATCHTOWER First Line: A religion that tells you there's only pie in the sky Last Line: Against absolutely earthly rocks WAYS OF DYING First Line: Commander ernesto che guevara Last Line: Those dead in the name of each concept WHAT A CRAZY MAN SAID TO ME First Line: You told me your father was a tiny sea Last Line: And I shouldn't believe anything they talk about on the other side of the bars WHAT'S MISSING First Line: The classics are interesting:' Last Line: What I really miss most in cuba WHEN DEATH First Line: When death with its birds Last Line: Doggedly we killed oblivion off WORDS IN FRONT OF THE SEA First Line: Belly of the storm and of salt Last Line: Rough carpet full of stars for an indecisive soul. %(shiny aluminum dolphin...) YOU AND GOLD AND WHAT AWAITS YOU First Line: In capitalism it's a lie to say Last Line: Or in adorning the necks %or ears of girls YOUNG PEOPLE First Line: We didn't hear much talk about the century Last Line: If I break with the old life stuck in its pose YOUR COMPANY First Line: When night falls and a warm Last Line: That's what we, the silent many, are like |
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