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<><<set $spanish to ["''Aprendiendo'' ", "Español es la única lengua del mundo que no puedo aprender. ", "Como la belleza, debería haber nacido con ella. ", "Debería haber seguido el hilo a través del dédalo en mis huesos. ", "En alguna parte, la debería haber descubrido como conquistadora."]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''Learning'' ", "Spanish, the one language in the world that I didn’t have to learn: ", "Her beauty was born with me; ", "she’s strung like thread through the fingers of my past. ", "A part of me, planted deep, beyond the discovery of any conqueror."]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''Learning'' ", "Spanish is the one language in the world that I can’t learn. ", "Like beauty, I should have been born with her. ", "I should have followed the thread through the maze in my bones. ", "Somewhere, I should have discovered her like a conqueror."]>><> <<TranslateLinks $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''Basura'' ", "Me viste tirando el chocolate, pastel, mitad de sanduche. ", "Claro, lo hice y lo haré otra vez, ", "esta princesa vacía llena de vergüenza. ", "Mi hambre me manda a menguar como apática luna, y dices, ", "\"¡Qué pródiga!\" Claro.", "Tengo tan riqueza y todavía insisto en la enfermedad."]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''Garbage'' ", "You saw me throw away the chocolate bar, the cake, the half-sandwich. ", "\"How prodigal! ", "Someone should tell princess how poverty works; what shame is; ", "what real hunger tastes like.\" ", "Of course, you're right.", " What do I know?"]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''Garbage'' ", "You saw me throw away the chocolate bar, the cake, the half-sandwich. ", "Well, I did it and I'll do it again, ", "This vain princess full of shame. ", "My hunger orders me to wane like the apathetic moon, and you say ", "\"How prodigal!\" Of course.", "I have such wealth and still insist on being sick."]>><><<TranslateLinksRight $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''El alacrán'' ", "He tratado de hablar el nombre de lo que me quitaste de mí. ", "Quizás es los puntos de los pezones. ", "Es la tapia alrededor de la vagina, ", "los lugares donde el corazon fue penetrado; ", "ahora el amor se va y se llega al mismo tiempo. ", "Solo tengo las palabras tuyas para mi cuerpo, ", "diccionario sucio ", "biblioteca de vergüenza. ", "Los recuerdos de ti suspiran sobre el piel como espectros cuando trato de tocarme, ", "invisibles pero aquí, aquí,", " sangre que no puede limpiarse. ", "Quiero salvarme ", "con concha, panocha, choca, ", "pero hay lacuna entre los muslos. Ya no sé como enflorar. ", "He perdido el truco. ", "No me violaste. ", "Simplemente me trasladaste."]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''violar'' ", "Nothing even happened (I tell myself, over and over) ", "I tell myself as I say goodbye ", "the way I do it now, right before hello. ", "\"How long has it been since you've had sex?\" ", "say my coworkers, my male friends. I'm very busy with my art and my dog. ", "He says, \"What happened to you?\" tender, ", "like he's looking at an earthquake 's remainder, ", "or an exceptionally ugly scar. ", "I tell him. \"That doesn't sound like much,\" he says (which I've remembered ever since). ", "I agree; ", "it doesn't sound like much to me either. ", "Save myself from what? ", "There's no con, no rape, no cataclysm.", "Just a lack, a flower that's found itself too stubborn to bloom. ", "I've lost the trick of it. ", "You never raped me. ", "Nothing even happened."]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''The scorpion'' ", "I have tried to say the name of what you took from me. ", "Maybe it's the points of my nipples. ", "It's the wall around my vagina, ", "the places where my heart was pierced; ", "now love leaves and approaches at the same time. ", "I only have your words for my body, ", "a filthy dictionary, ", "a library of shame. ", "The memories of you sigh beneath my skin like ghosts when I try to touch myself, ", "invisible but here, here,", " blood that can't be cleansed. ", "I want to save myself with ", "cunt, pussy, crash,", "but there's a gap between my thighs. I don't remember how to flower. ", "I've lost the trick of it. ", "You didn't rape me. ", "You simply translated me."]>> <> <<TranslateLinks $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''El arpa'' ", "¡Ay! ", "No me jales las cuerdas, me duele."]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''The harp'' ", "Ah! ", "Harp, you play such pretty music."]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''The harp'' ", "Ow! ", "Don't pull at my strings, it hurts."]>> <> <<TranslateLinks $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''El cantarito'' ", "Usted, avanzado a través los aguas del camino como general,", " con los brazos llenos de luz. ", "Dice usted, \"Aquí hayan cajas de bendiciones.\" ", "¿Quién hable sobre su viaje al continente y de vuelta? ", "¿Quién dijera al mundo sobre sus pláneas para el pueblo? ", "Dice usted, \"Si tu corazon no esté abierto, no importa a dónde vas.\" ", "Dice usted, \"Estamos muriendo. Ustedes están matándonos.\"", "¿Quién hable de las cenizas descontadas? ", "¿Quién hable sobre las cosas que debe contener?"]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''Carmen Yulín Cruz'' ", "Didn't I already tell you how the mermaid got her legs?", "Didn't I already tell you about the drowned city? ", "Why can't you listen to my problems for a change?", "There are still headlines that don't bear my name; ", "there's a nag nag nag of dripwater bittering my shores, hurricanes of nastiness.", "These brittle bitches want it all about them: all they know how to swallow is drinking water.", "All they want to talk about is islands. ", "I don't believe in playing that Mexican jukebox twice; ", "let's talk about me for a change, for a change, for a change."]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''The pot'' ", "You, advancing through the waters of the road like a general,", " with your arms showered with light. ", "You say, \"Here are boxes of blessings.\" ", "Who would talk about your journey to the continent and back? ", "Who would tell the world about your plans for the people?", "You say, \"If your heart isn't open, it doesn't matter where you're going.\" ", "You say, \"We are dying. You are killing us.\" ", "Who would talk of the uncounted ashes? ", "Who would talk about the things that must be contained?"]>> <> <<TranslateLinks $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''El Cordero'' ", "La AP reporte que ", "la porcentaje de evangélicos que apoyarían ", "a un político que cometiera un acto inmortal ", "subió de 30% en 2011 a 72% en 2016. ", "Aquí está Baal. ", "Aquí está su ídolo falso: ", "Es lo que pasa cuando se pone un hombre en el lugar de dios."]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''Roy Moore'' ", "Who let the cold air in? ", "Who went through the house and inverted the crucifixes? ", "Whose hand unmakes the good of the kitchen, ", "the strong stove songs and the dove nourishment? ", "Who bridal-blots the bedspreads? ", "Where are my children? ", "My God, my god, how can I cleave so close to you and find myself so far away?"]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''The Lamb'' ", "AP reported that ", "the percentage of evangelicals that would support ", "a politician who committed an immoral act ", "rose from 30% in 2011 to 72% in 2016. ", "Here is Baal. ", "Here is your false idol: ", "It is what happens when you put a man in the place of god."]>> <> <<TranslateLinks $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''El músico'' ", "Él conocí a Hecate en la esquina. ", "Dijo ella, \"Te ofrezca una elección: o puedes alcanzar fama y riqueza, o puedes revelarte.\" ", "Él fue un niño en esos días, pero ya entendió que hubo peligro en su amor. ", "Hecate le dijo el secreto: ", "closet es forma de decir matriz, la oscuridad que nutre. ", "En la quietud, ", "se puede aprender a pronunciar su amor ", "como sangre de cordero, ", "ella le dijo, \"La araña te tejerá abrigo, y ", "la dragón te calentará con su fuego obsidiano. ", "Si olvidas quién eres, te recordaremos.\" Él le dijo, \"Tengo miedo.\" ", "\"Sí,\" ella contestó. \"Sólo debes de asegurar que el miedo no tiene a tí.\""]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''Ricky Martin y Hecate'' ", "He met the witch on the corner, the one with black cats and voodoo dolls. ", "She proposed the young man a devil's bargain: ", "\"Hide like a superstitious child, my love. ", "Become a secret. ", "Closet yourself in a matrix of obscurity, ", "and in the cloistering quiet, ", "you can learn to forget your name, ", "let lights shine through you like bullets through the brain, let some other lamb go to slaughter— ", "such is the cost of fame.\" She looked to the boy like ", "a dragon spitting obsidian fire. ", "He could not remember a time that he had been more afraid. ", "He took the bargain. And a part of himself was gone."]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''The music'' ", "He met Hecate on the corner. ", "She said, \"I offer you a choice: Either you can reach fame and fortune, or you can come out.\" ", "He was a boy in those days, but he'd already learned that there was danger in his love. ", "Hecate told him the secret: ", "closet is a way to say womb, the darkness that nourishes. ", "In the silence, ", "you can learn to pronounce your love ", "like lamb's blood, ", "she told him, \"The spider will weave you a coat, and ", "the dragon will warm you with its obsidian fire. ", "If you forget who you are, we will remember you.\" He told her, \"I have fear.\" ", "\"Yes,\" she replied. \"Only be sure that fear doesn't have you.\""]>><> <<TranslateLinks $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''El nopal'' ", "Nosotros niños comemos pollos frita de la iglesia de grasa, nuestro favorito. ", "Mi abuela mira el fútbol americano cada semana como la misa. ", "En la restaurante favorita de mi abuelo, siempre pido la hamborguesa. ", "No sé que debo ser más morena. ", "Incluso los niños sienten el espacio vacío entre ofrendas. ", "Puedo ver que nadie más no celebra como nosotros. ", "Le miro a mi madre, tratando de darnos nuestra historia vela por vela. ", "Cada punto de luz como estrella lejana. ", "Ser chicana es perdonarles a mis padres que no pudieran decirme lo que soy. ", "Es perdonarles a mis abuelos su vergüenza. ", "Mi familia me canta las manañitas por mis cumpleaños. ", "Se equivoca de las palabras."]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''chicana'' ", "Chickens run through the grass between houses, chased by laughing children. ", "My grandmother teaches me to roll masa for tamales. ", "I adore the pink tiled panaderias of humid summer, ", "gentle curl gaznates and treasure chest empanadas and piggy marranitos. ", "It's Christmas; ", "my family wends the neighborhood singing \"vamos todos a Belen\". ", "I fill luminaria after luminaria with sand and candles, ", "the dirt-cheapest magic you'll ever find your way home with. ", "The word arroyo seeps under my skin before I know irrigation from arrogance; ", "my vision blurs with orange groves. ", "My parents sing me las mananitas on my birthday. ", "Every word is perfectly right."]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''The prickly pear'' ", "We children eat fried chicken from the church of fat, our favorite. ", "My grandmother watches American football every week like mass. ", "In my grandfather's favorite restaurant, I always order the hamburger. ", "I don't know how I ought to be darker. ", "Even the children feel the empty space between offerings. ", "I can see that nobody else celebrates like we do. ", "I watch my mother, trying to tell us our history, candle by candle. ", "Each point of light is like a faraway star. ", "To be chicana is to pardon my parents who cannot tell me who I am. ", "It's to pardon my grandparents for their shame. ", "My family sings me birthday songs on my birthday. ", "They get the words wrong."]>> <> <<TranslateLinks $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''activismo'' ", "Envía tu risa como súplica al cielo. ", "Trae pan dulce a la protesta; ", "ofrézcaselo a tus enemigos. Panendulza. ", "Espira fuego. ", "Ayuda. ", "Vuelve a casa y prepara un baño. ", "Descánsate. No te olvides la almohada o cobija suave. Sueña. ", "Levántate otra vez. ", "Sé gentil, queride. Trátate a ti mismo como si seas alguien que mereciera el amor.", "Hazlo hasta que lo creyeras. ", "Cuando tengas la opción de construir o destruir, ", "construye. ", "Bebe vino. Bebe té. ", "Descánsate. Sueña. ", "Ningún fracaso es final. ", "Levántate otra vez."]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''El valiente'' ", "Don't laugh unless the joke reaches heaven. ", "Don't sheetcake, you maudlin mortician. ", "Don't sugar yourself a shell. ", "Acknowledge your vertices, ", "your apex,", " your list of sins. ", "Peel back your eyelids and shun beds for their resemblance to graves. ", "Stay woke. ", "Don't open your fist or the good will run out. ", "Don't humanize the enemy or you'll harmonize with demons. ", "Put nothing into howling nothing and ", "pull a dove from it. ", "Put your body through the thresher and ", "hope you birth something. ", "Put failure on your shoulders; ", "not everyone has the luxury."]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''activism'' ", "Send your laugh like a prayer to heaven. ", "Bring sweet bread to the protest;", "offer it to your enemies. Bread-sweeten them. ", "Breathe fire. ", "Help. ", "Return home and prepare a bath. ", "Rest. Don't forget the pillow or the soft blanket. Dream. ", "Rise once again. ", "Be gentle, dear. Treat yourself like your someone who deserves love. ", "Do it until you believe it. ", "When you have the option to create or destroy, ", "create. ", "Drink wine. Drink tea. ", "Rest. Dream. ", "No failure is final. ", "Rise once again."]>><> <<TranslateLinksRight $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''El vampiro'' ", "El vampiro torce la ley. ", "Como arroz, es blanqueado de compasión. ", "No llega cuando prometas,", " y entra sin permiso. ", "¿Cuál depredador se anuncia? ", "El sanguinario caballero ", "lanza la voz; ", "dice que es policía, vecino, amigo. ", "Roba tus padres y les transforma en criminales sobre el papel. ", "No es posible razonar con el vampiro. ", "La única solución para él es ", "clavar la estaca en el corazón."]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''ICE'' ", "The vampire loves the law. ", "Watch him count rice on the doorstep, grain promises.", "He does not arrive unless invited, ", "or at least, he does not come in. ", "Like a predator,", "the sanguine gentleman ", "announces himself. He has no need to throw his voice. ", "The doctrine of his castle is orderly as stone; ", "he takes nothing he is not authorized to take. ", "The vampire is reasonable.", " If you don't want him to steal your blood, ", "simply don't answer the door."]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''The vampire'' ", "The vampire twists the law. ", "Like rice, he is bleached of compassion.", "He arrives without warning,", " and comes in without permission. ", "What kind of predator announces himself? ", "The bloodthirsty gentleman", "throws his voice; ", "says he's an officer, neighbor, friend.", "He steals your parents and transforms them into criminals on paper. ", "It's not possible to reason with the vampire. ", "The only solution for him is to ", "drive the stake into his heart."]>> <> <<TranslateLinks $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''La dama'' ", "Qué linda fue mi madre esa noche, con sus perlas de la pulga.", " Ella las compró con su hermana, y se las llevó a ", "este lugar frío,", " esta fiesta de reglas. ", "¿Hijo, qué sabes de real? ¿Con tus bromas, tus violencitas? ", "Piensas que una mujer no es nada más que un puente. ", "Pues, mi madre nunca no necesitaba joyas para ser joya, ", "ella que pule las calles con su paso, brillándolas en diamantes. ", "Las perlas de mi madre son ", "más reales que tus presunciones. ", "¿Cómo podrías entender a una mujer que se llevan ríos y estrellas? ", "Cuándo le preguntaste a ella, \"¿Dínos, Linda, son perlas genuinas?\" ", "no hubo otra repuesta que, ", "\"Nunca jamás no te diré.\""]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''mi mamá'' ", "\"Tell us, Linda—are those real pearls?\" The truth was, they'd come from a flea market. ", "She brought them to ", "this rarefied place, ", "this college party full of refinement, ", "where she was taught that only imitation girls wear imitation gems. ", "Who could take her seriously with that guttershine around her neck? ", "When the boy called her out, he was really doing her a favor: ", "//don't think anybody's fooled by your perm and hand-sewn fashions//; still ", "my mother was not ", "without the small dignity of border towns. ", "She understood, ", "when he ferreted out her fake pearls, that she had to make the best of a poor situation. ", "She gave a fake shining laugh and answered merrily, ", "\"I'll never tell.\""]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''The lady'' ", "How lovely my mother was that night, with her flea market pearls.", " She bought them from her sister, and wore them to ", "this frigid place,", " this party of rules. ", "Son, what do you know of what's real? With your jokes, your little acts of violence? ", "You think that a woman is nothing more than a long weekend. ", "Well, my mother never needed jewels to be a jewel, ", "she who polishes the streets with every step, shining them into diamonds. ", "My mother's pearls are ", "more real than your arrogance. ", "How could you understand a woman who wears rivers and stars? ", "When you asked her, \"Tell us, Linda, are those real pearls?\" ", "She never answered with anything more than, ", "\"I'll never tell you.\""]>><> <<TranslateLinks $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''La migra'' ", "Mi madre me alimentaba, aunque nunca no merecía.", " ¿Qué es la madre? Alguien que alimenta. ", "¿Es fácil alimentar? ", "Claro, no: ", "la tierra ondea con siglos de traición. ", "La tierra se recuerda: se guarda huesos, químicos, pecados. ", "En mis sueños, la tierra nos traga ", "con esta golosa ciudad. ", "Nuestros cadáveres alimentan", " a los trabajadores migrantes: ", "nuestras madres sin gracias, ", "los magos de campo y semilla. ", "Cuando me despierto, ", "lleno plato con frutas de un valle donde cazan a los que las cultivan. ", "¿Acaso traiciono a mi madre?"]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''migrant worker'' ", "My mother fed me all my life without complaint. ", "It was her job. ", "Is it easy, feeding people? ", "Hell yes, farmers know the land like their own salt, ", "centuries of ingenuity coursing in their veins. ", "It's all a matter of jobs and those whose American will grease their wheels. ", "City folk can't know what work means ", "in a land made from laws; ", "they're cadaverous with need. ", "The coattail migrators want a piece; ", "no thank you, work murderers, ", "you maggots of field and seed. ", "Desperate for you? No, ", "it's a whistle to work in this great safe valley: emptier, now. ", "Sometimes the price of freedom is rotten fruit."]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''border patrol'' ", "My mother fed me, even though I never deserved it.", " What is the mother? Someone who feeds. ", "Is it easy to feed? ", "Clearly not: ", "the land ripples with centuries of betrayal. ", "The land remembers; it guards bones, chemicals, sins. ", "In my dreams, the land swallows us ", "with this greedy city. ", "Our corpses, they feed", " to the migrant workers: ", "our mothers without thanks, ", "the wizards of field and seed. ", "When I wake up, ", "I fill plates with fruits from a valley where they hunt those who grow them. ", "Do I betray my mother?"]>><> <<TranslateLinks $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''La sirena y el pescador'' ", "La sirena se levantó del mar ", "para ver el mundo seco. ", "Ella encontró a un pescador en la playa, ", "esta pez guapa sin red. ", "Ella tenía la cola reluciente;", "las escamas que cubrieron el pecho, los brazos, la cara; ", "la estela de olas construidas de encaje. ", "El pescador agarró la cola de sirena y la cortó por la mitad. ", "\"Ahora,\" él le dijo a ella, \"tienes piernas. ¿Por qué no caminas?\" ", "La sirena empezó a cantar al mar para ayuda, ", "su sangre transformando la arena de la playa en los arcoiris. ", "Ella cantó al pescador, \"Te perdono, te perdono, te perdono.\""]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''The mermaid and the fisherman'' ", "The mermaid fled the ocean ", "searching for a better world. ", "A fisherman found her on the beach, ", "this pretty fish with no home. ", "He noted her oily tail; ", "the scales that covered her breasts, arms, and face; ", "the frothing waves in her wake. ", "The fisherman was seized with pity, and made the mermaid a pair of legs. ", "\"Now,\" he told her, \"You have legs. Will you walk with me?\" ", "The mermaid began to sing, telling the sea of her good fortune, ", "transforming the sand of the beach into rainbows. ", "She sang to the fisherman, \"Thank you, thank you, thank you.\""]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''The mermaid and the fisherman'' ", "The mermaid rose from the ocean ", "to see the dry world. ", "She met a fisherman on the beach, ", "this beautiful fish with no net. ", "She had a gleaming tail, ", "scales that covered her chest, arms, and face; ", "and lacy waves in her wake. ", "The fisherman seized the mermaid's tail, and cut it in half. ", "\"Now,\" he told her, \"You have legs. Why don't you walk?\" ", "The mermaid began to sing to the sea for help, ", "her blood transforming the sand of the beach into rainbows. ", "She sang to the fisherman, \"I forgive you, I forgive you, I forgive you.\""]>> <> <<TranslateLinks $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''Libertad'' ", "\"Señora, te ponemos grilletes en los pies.\" ", "Replicas que no es justo, ", "y dicen, \"Me vale madres.\" ", "El grillete cuesta lo mismo que apartamento en McAllen. ", "Lo llevas en todos lados, tu minotauro de tobillo. ", "No puedes trabajar; ", "tu jefe cree que eres criminal. ", "Tus amigues creen lo mismo; tu casa es taza vacía. ", "Cuando el batería se muere, grita alarma como si fueras ", "ladrón en tu cuerpo. ", "Es la jaula lo más eficiente. ", "¡Imposible laberinto! ", "El grillete es tu calabozo, tu Ataúd."]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''ankle monitor'' ", "\"Madam, we are going to safeguard your feet.\" ", "You reply it's only just. ", "They say, \"We value mothers.\" ", "Your safe guard quests with you to an apartment in McAllen. ", "You bring it everywhere, your little monitor. ", "Come here ready to work; ", "don't become a criminal. ", "Make friends and invite them home for mugs of tea. ", "When you die, we will wail the alarm as if you were ", "our own body and blood. ", "Your monitor, so efficient. ", "Amazeing grace! ", "It has made you a real American."]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''Liberty'' ", "\"Ma'am, we're putting shackles on your feet.\" ", "You reply that it's not fair, ", "and they say, \"We couldn't care less about mothers.\" ", "The shackle costs as much as an apartment in McAllen. ", "You bring it everywhere, your ankle minotaur. ", "You can't work; ", "your boss thinks you're a criminal. ", "Your friends think the same; your house is an empty cup.", "When the battery dies, it screams alarm as if you were ", "a thief in your body. ", "It's the most efficient cage. ", "Impossible labyrinth!", "The shackle is your prison cell, your Coffin."]>> <> <<TranslateLinks $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''Miedos'' ", "Que viene una reina sádica, de sal, ", "enguirnaldada en zascas y santa en su opresión. ", "Los mansos se levantan a demoler. ", "No le perdonamos al rico. Su dinero no puede salvarte. ", "No le perdonamos al gringo. El privilegio es el mal, siempre sucio. ", "No perdonamos. Olvidamos \"perdonar\". Siempre sabemos y nunca aprendemos. ", "Escogemos una reina que cree la venganza es inmaculada. ", "Ella celebra el dolor de sus enemigos como si fuera la felicidad de sus amigos. ", "¿Qué vale la seguridad si ", "nos marchitemos los corazones? ", "¿Qué sucede a la justicia ", "si no haya la misericordia?"]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''Fears'' ", "That one day a queen will come ", "wreathed in clapbacks, holy in her oppression. ", "The meek will rise up and wreck shit. ", "We won't forgive the rich man. His money can't coddle him forever. ", "We won't forgive the white man. His privilege won't make him safe. ", "We won't forgive the wrongdoer who knows what they do. ", "We'll watch our queen gobble greed-gluts in the immaculate gears of her teeth,", " hosanna for their lamentations. ", "Every roof be safe circle, ", "every heart fluoresce. ", "Who needs warmth anyway ", "when we have so much light?"]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''Fears'' ", "That there comes a sadistic queen, of salt, ", "wreathed in crashes and holy in her oppression. ", "The meek will rise up and destroy. ", "We don't forgive the rich man. His money won't save him. ", "We don't forgive the white man. Privilege is evil, always impure. ", "We don't forgive. We forget \"forgive\". We always know and never learn. ", "We choose a queen that believes revenge is immaculate. ", "She celebrates the pain of her enemies as if it were the happiness of her friends. ", "What worth is safety if ", "we shrivel our hearts? ", "What happens to justice ", "if there is no mercy?"]>><> <<TranslateLinksRight $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''Perfección'' ", "Una mujer construyó una casita", " donde no había sido nada. ", "Todo era sin lujo, pero hermoso: ", "Ella plantó un árbol de pera, y siempre dejaba la puerta abierta sus queridos. ", "Tenía ventanas altas para que brillaba el sol. ", "El techo ", "se filtraba despues de una tormenta, ", "y ella estaba arreglándolo. ", "El hombre nunca no había puesto un ladrillo, pero ", "cuando vio la casa, exclamó, ", "\"¡Ésta no sirve! ", "Las ventanas son desiguales! ", "Las lámparas son demasiadas tenues. ", "Necesitamos que quemar esta casa y empezar otra vez.\" ", "La mujer miró y sabía que él tenía razon, este hombre que nunca no había construido nada:", " mucho aquí no era perfecto. ", "Ella le dijo, \"Muy bien, señor. ", "¿Pero dónde viviré mañana?\""]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''Perfection'' ", "A man saw that a lady had built a house ", "on virgin land. ", "It was a mess: ", "front door off its hinges, a tree's rotten fruit scattered across the yard. ", "The ventilation was very poor, anyone would admit, ", "and the holes she had put in the roof", " leaked filthy water in torrents on the floor. ", "Why wouldn't she fix it? ", "The man", "hated to think of her languishing in the house, and exclaimed, ", "\"This establishment won't do, my dear!", " We deserve palaces, ", "we deserve a world in the clouds.", "We have to burn this place down and start dreaming again.\" ", "The little lady looked around and knew that he was right: ", "the house she'd built wasn't much. Just a small thing more trouble than it was worth. ", "She told him, \"I wish I could. ", "But I don't have the imagination.\""]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''Perfection'' ", "A woman built a little house ", "where there had been nothing. ", "It wasn't luxurious, but it was beautiful: ", "She planted a pear tree, and always left the door open for her loved ones.", "She had tall windows to let the sun shine in.", "The roof ", "leaked after a storm, ", "and she was fixing it. ", "The man had never laid down a brick, but ", "when he saw the house, he exclaimed, ", "\"This won't do!", "The windows are crooked! ", "The lamps are too dim. ", "We have to burn this house down and start over.\" ", "The woman looked around and knew that he was right, this man who had never built anything:", " much here wasn't perfect. ", "She told him, \"Alright sir. ", "But where will I live tomorrow?\""]>> <> <<TranslateLinks $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

<> <<set $spanish to ["''Tenochtitlan'' ", "Leí que los Mexica ahogaban a mujeres de cercanos pueblos para apaciguar a la diosa de las lluvias. ", "Su templo mayor tenía dos estantes de cráneos. ", "Mis antepasados que adoraban al sol mantenían a sus dioses cerca, escuchando a sus voces rapaces. ", "En sus nombres, perpetraban maravillas ", "y atrocidades. ", "No debe sorprender entonces que los pueblos a fuera de Tenochtitlan ", "les dieron la bienvenida a cualquiera que prometiera un final al ", "sol cruel, las flores mentirosas,", "los aguas ", "pavimentados con los huesos de tributas. ", "El dios de los Hispanos fue el oro, y él ", "les mandó a quemar Tenochtitlan, enviándola para reunirse con las doncellas ahogadas."]>> <<set $ogTranslation to ["''Tenochtitlan'' ", "Cortes' men thought the Mexica's floating city must be a dream: stone temples jutting from the water, ", "voracious bright gardens and grand estates. ", "My sun-worshipping ancestors kept their gods close, heeded their rapt whispers. ", "In their names, they built marvelous canals ", "and walked on the waters. ", "It shouldn't then surprise that artists have tried to recapture Tenochtitlan, ", "brooding on the dream journals of Spaniards: they imagine her ", "bright causeways, ", "the lush gardens ", "paving her streets like enchantments. ", "The Spanish, steely god-mongers that they were, ", "knew well how to deal with enchantment: They burned Tenochtitlan to ash."]>> <<set $newTranslation to ["''Tenochtitlan'' ", "I read about the Mexicans that drowned the women of besieged towns to pacify the goddess of the rains. ", "Her main temple had two racks of skulls. ", "My sun-worshipping ancestors kept their gods close, listened to their predatory voices. ", "In their names, they committed marvels ", "and atrocities. ", "It shouldn't then surprise that the people that were Tenochtitlan ", "welcomed anybody who promised an end to the ", "cruel sun, the lying flowers,", "the waters ", "paved with the bones of tributes. ", "The Spanish god was gold, and he ", "ordered them to burn Tenochtitlan, Sending her to reunite with The drowned maidens."]>> <> <<TranslateLinksRight $spanish $ogTranslation $newTranslation>>

!Miss Translated [[Miss Translated|https://www.patreon.com/elisachavez]] is a meditation on culture, identity, and the things that get lost in translation by Elisa Chavez. To support this project, check out her [[Patreon.|https://www.patreon.com/elisachavez]] She is the creator of the original Spanish and original translations of the poems. They have been recreated verbatim. Poems adapted and second translations provided by [[Maddie|https://pieartystuff.tumblr.com]] with permission. //Some of the existing poems I didn't manage to adapt here, so I highly recommend you check out all the originals by clicking the first link above. - Maddie// !!Poems <<for _poem range $poems.sort()>> [[_poem]] <</for>>

<<set $poems = Story.lookup("tags", "poem").map(function (p) { return p.title; })>>

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