Lucía
63
Argentina
Date the
poem was written
Translated
from Spanish
Remnants
The
world is burning on all four sides,
the Amazon
burns,
the seas
are polluted.
but you,
Stay home.
The virus
that will kill you is already in the air, in people,
Don't hug,
unhappy,
Stay at
home.
To be good
is to not think,
Stay at
home.
Forget
about the risk and your fury
and learn
how to cook sourdough,
Forget the
f---ing North Korean
who tested
20 atomic bombs, without fear,
and finally
Justice is done,
Stay at
home.
They are
watching you,
controlling
your sphincters,
your
nerves, your contacts.,
They are
taking care of you, don't you see?
They are
washing away the sin of affection.,
Stay home,
moron.
I know what
I’m saying,
the
powerful will punish you,
Stay there
confined
Because I
am the one who commands and who decides:
I order you
so that your poor little life
lasts one
more year or one year at least,
eating
canned chickpea hummus,
or friggin
noodles, donated,
buying
sanitizer or bleach,
wearing
protective masks
that do not
protect worth a damn
if they are
made with remnants
with poorly
sewn cloth
with
ridiculous saying
like a
modern and teamed up Tuareg,
period.
Take off
the mask of belonging,
Nobody
wants to listen to you. Deaf ears,
They won't
let you laugh. Face mask,
The
laughter of the innocent is annoying,
an intolerable
noise to dictatorship,
Stay home,
unhappy.
Stay home
while
you see the
collective
take away
your few material goods and your honor,
We will
riot
like
prisoners
to demand
that God release us from
the virus,
the heart attack, the asteroid,
but you,
Stay home.
Be
obedient,
Maybe the
opportunistic official,
faithful
intermediary of your enclosure,
acknowledges
your staying at home,
your
illustrious diffusion of shame,
your hot
and secret adultery,
because it
is the time of Kings without crowns,
without
sense, with blood if necessary,
yours, unhappy, and ours.
Play the
story on TV,
made to
entertain sleepwalkers
and apply
martial law to your disgust,
I felt that
you are a hero in misery,
Surely in
the next Netflix show
they will
pay homage to you without naming you.
