(5) Mockingbirds Revisited Poem by Luis Gil de la Puente

It´s only madmen
who climb to the slag heaps
to look at the horizon.

I am waiting for this door to open.
I want to play chess.

How could that
hunchbacked swordsman
write this beautiful poem?
'That' is a miracle.

Is it true that Dido,
Queen of Carthage,
commited suicide
for that bum?

Why are those
beautiful stories
so sad?

What does he mean
when he says
“Can´t you see
there is no room for that,
it doesn´t follow”?

“The dark dogs in Hades
keep the gates
into the kingdom
of the dead”
That´s a good sentence
to analyse.

Ginger ladies shouldn´t announce death,
it cannot be true, can it?

He was like a buffalo
running to us on the plain...

You have to hold your position,
don´t you see
they´ll get a fastbreak
and win?

Let me throw away your cigarrette,
you´re going to vanish
and then
who will decipher the poems
for us?

- Teacher.....  
- Tell me, little cricket....