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Tengo

Tengo

I have, just wait and see,

that being black and all

no one stopping me

as bar or dance hall guest

or treading the carpet of a hotel,

shouting that there's no bed,

no minimal cell and no colossal cell,

no little cell where I might take my rest.

I have, just wait and see,

freedom from the rural overseer

who straps me up and puts me in a jail

or drags my body from its native shed

down the royal highway's helpless trail.

I have the land as well as I've the sea,

no country,

no high-life,

no tennis and no yacht,

but beach to endless waves and waves to beach,

blue and naked giant of democracy:

in short, the sea.

Tengo


Some book translations

Always rebellious: selected poems = Cimarroneando: poemas escogidos
Georgina Herrera + María Rodríguez-Alcalá + Juanamaría Cordones-Cook
Querencias = homing instincts
Nancy Morejón + Pamela Carmell
Tres relatos del Caribe costarricense (en inglés)
Dolores Joseph Montout
Looking within: selected poems
Nancy Morejón + Juanamaría Cordones-Cook + Gabriel Abudu
No give up, maan! = ¡No te rindas!
Hazel Robinson Abrahams + Annie Chapman

Some books for download

Poesías completas de Plácido (Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés).
Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés «Plácido»
Cuentos andinos
Enrique López Albújar

More books to browse

Capão Pecado
Reinaldo Ferreira da Silva «Ferréz»
The best short stories of Quince Duncan
Quince Duncan + Dellita Martin-Ogunsola
Cuentos y relatos escogidos
Fernando Durán Ayanegui

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