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Translation
The Major
Men have always been made
of all kinds of materials;
from royal houses
to marginal neigborhoods
All ages were pieces
of a puzzle
to go up the slope
of the great animal kingdom,
with a black hand
and the other, white and lethal
The Major was made up
of fatal ingredients,
light from the landlords
and from the revolution,
dexterity in fencing,
events with a prisoner,
An amelia that was abandoned
by the bullet,
the shame, love,
or an execution*,
an old tale
these things modeled his farewell
The Major goes riding with his wound,
and the deadliest the wound is, the more life he gains
He goes riding over a written palm
and one hundred years from here, he resurrects
He rides over the seafoam
followed by a sea
of blacks with machetes
and unchained
His cornet orders
the beheading,
and a century from here,
he intones our song
and with his fierce throat
he sings,
he scares the curse away
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Silvio Rodríguez: Top 3
| 1. | Ojalá |
| 2. | La Maza |
| 3. | Óleo de mujer con sombrero |
Comments
About translator
"Fusilamiento" alludes specifically to an execution by firing squad.