A./ Na actualidade a fariña branca
ínzase duns bichos pequenos e negros
coas suas larvas brancas miudas
#Moléstame esta dixitación do pulgar
como analfabeto da mecanografía
cada verso ocupa demasiado#
B./ Medrei estirando a man ás espiñas
Manténdose un vivo nesa austeridade
C./ A vida realmente é como nun videoxogo
Están decontino a caer corazóns do ceo
Sería tan reconfortante agarrarse a un deles!
D./ Tan tentadores os doces campos do lixo!
Como volver logo aos pés frios do inverno
para non sumirse na desorde asociada?
A./ Coa pel cuberta de cicatrices vexo mellor
estes bichos negros que hai que apartar
cada día, en cada almorzo - xantar - cea
E./ Os grandes lobbies da fariña
prescindiron xa do peneirado
#Boto moito de menos os tempos
nos que (para todos) era inaceptábel
esta combinación horrenda#
Point of inflection
A./ Nowadays, white flour
is teeming with tiny black bugs
and their minute white larvae
#This thumb-typing bothers me,
a typist's illiterate fumbling,
each line taking up far too much space#
B./ I grew up reaching out for thorns,
keeping myself alive through such austerity
C./ Life really is like a video game.
Hearts keep falling from the sky,
how comforting it would be to catch one!
D./ How tempting these sweet fields of rubbish!
How then to return to winter's cold feet
without sinking into the disorder that comes with them?
A./ With my skin covered in scars, I see more clearly
these black bugs that must be brushed aside
every day, at every breakfast – lunch – dinner
E./ The great flour lobbies
have already done away with sieving
#I sorely miss the days
when this horrendous combination
was unacceptable (to everyone)#