Black Stone on Top of a White Stone

  1. Chimurenga.
    By Cesar Vallejo

    [FONT=Arial]I shall die in Paris, in a rainstorm,
    On a day I already remember.
    I shall die in Paris-- it does not bother me--
    Doubtless on a Thursday, like today, in autumn.

    It shall be a Thursday, because today, Thursday
    As I put down these lines, I have set my shoulders
    To the evil. Never like today have I turned,
    And headed my whole journey to the ways where I am alone.

    César Vallejo is dead. They struck him,
    All of them, though he did nothing to them,
    They hit him hard with a stick and hard also
    With the end of a rope. Witnesses are: the Thursdays,
    The shoulder bones, the loneliness, the rain, and the roads... [/FONT]