cometas::kites
Cometas
Por falta de papel para hacer las cometas, echábamos a volar nuestras ventanas.
Las ventanas con sus delantales blancos nos decían lo que miraban.
Pero los indios que veían volar nuestras ventanas
no tenían ni casa ni ventanas para echar a volar siquiera una cometa.
Era natural que los indios quisieran hacer volar alguna cosa.
A cambio de pescado podrido, los gallinazos que volaban en círculos
se dejaban amarrar un hilo al cuello y les servían de cometas a los indios.
Poemas
Literales, TAL CUAL, 26 y 27 de Noviembre, 2011
Kites
Lacking of paper to make kites, we flew our windows away.
The windows with their white aprons would tell us what they looked at.
But the Indians who saw our windows flying
had no house or windows even to make a kite fly.
It was natural that the Indians would want to fly something away.
In exchange of rotten fish, the vultures flying in circles
allowed the Indians to tie a string around their necks and served as their kites.
Juan Carlos Galeano
Poems
Literales, TAL CUAL Newspaper, November 26 and 27, 2011
Lacking of paper to make kites, we flew our windows away.
The windows with their white aprons would tell us what they looked at.
But the Indians who saw our windows flying
had no house or windows even to make a kite fly.
It was natural that the Indians would want to fly something away.
In exchange of rotten fish, the vultures flying in circles
allowed the Indians to tie a string around their necks and served as their kites.
Juan Carlos Galeano
Poems
Literales, TAL CUAL Newspaper, November 26 and 27, 2011
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