LOS OLVIDADOS Where, mama, is the stage? Here. On this ground Beneath overpass here where smooth cars always over before prayer, even Round steel bodies This is your theatre. I did not know your father. One night So black that even memory refused it - Doves might know. You do not, mild usurper. Nurse your wild creatures Vroom, vroom, Crunch; caw caw nailed, from behind, the poor does not know the propriety of direction. Only doves' feathers can, mirrors, milk meat stockings portent caw, caw, Next |
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