Cuan bestia es el burgueś
Cuan Animal es el Burgués
Cuan animal es el burgués
especialmente el macho de la especie.
Presentable, eminentemente presentable-
¿Te lo puedo dar a conocer?
¿No es buen mozo?
¿No es un espécimen delicado?
Desde fuera ¿no parece el fresco y limpio ingles?
¿No es la propia imagen de Dios corriendo sus treinta millas diarias
tras perdices o pelotitas de goma?
¿No te gustaría ser así, una cosa completamente acomodada?
¡ Oh, pero esperá!
Dejálo encontrar una nueva emoción, déjalo enfrentarse con las necesidades de otro hombre
dejálo llegar a casa con una pizca de dificultad moral, dejálo enfrentarse con una nueva demanda en su entendimiento,
entonces lo veras irse empapado, como un merengue húmedo.
Observálo volverse un desastre, o un tónto o un fanfarrón
Cuan animal es el burgués
especialmente el macho de la especie.
Como un hongo bonitamente cuidado
Permaneciendo ahí tan alisado y erecto y ojeable
viviendo como una fungosidad al hacer presente su vida pasada
que chupa su existencia fuera de las hojas muertas de su propio gran ser.
Lleno de hirvientes y agusanados sentimientos huecos
mejor dicho asquerosos-
Cuán animal es el burgués
Estancado en sus miles de apariencias en la húmeda Inglaterra
es una lástima que todos ellos no puedan ser pateados a otro lado
como repugnantes hongos venenosos para dejarlos volver a derretirse velozmente
en el interior del abono de Inglaterra .
1926
Trad. Raúl Racedo
How beastly the bourgeois is
How beastly the bourgeois is
especially the male of the species-
Presentable, eminently presentable-
shall I make you a present of him?
Isn’t hansome? Isn’t he a fine specimen?
Doesn’t he look the fresh clean englishman, outside?
especially the male of the species-
Presentable, eminently presentable-
shall I make you a present of him?
Isn’t hansome? Isn’t he a fine specimen?
Doesn’t he look the fresh clean englishman, outside?
Isn’t god’s own image? tramping his thirty miles a day
after partridges, or a little rubber ball?
wouldn’t you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?
after partridges, or a little rubber ball?
wouldn’t you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?
Oh, but wait !
Let him meet a new emotion, let him be faced with another man’s need.
let him come home a bit a moral difficulty, let life face him with a new
demand on his understanding
an then watch him go soggy, like a wet meringue.
Watch him turn into a mess, either a fool or a bully,
Just watch the display of him, confronted with a new demand on his
inteligence
a new life – demand.
Let him meet a new emotion, let him be faced with another man’s need.
let him come home a bit a moral difficulty, let life face him with a new
demand on his understanding
an then watch him go soggy, like a wet meringue.
Watch him turn into a mess, either a fool or a bully,
Just watch the display of him, confronted with a new demand on his
inteligence
a new life – demand.
How beastly the bourgeois is
especially the male of species-
especially the male of species-
Nicely groomed, like a mushroom
standing there so sleek and erect and eyeable-
and like a fungus , living on the remains of bygone life
sucking his life out of the dead leaves of greater life than his own.
And even so, he’s stale, he’s been there too long
Touch him, and you’ll find he’s gone inside
just like an old mushroom, all wormy inside, and hollow
under a smooth skin and an upright appearance.
Full of seething, wormy, hollow feelings
rather nasty-
standing there so sleek and erect and eyeable-
and like a fungus , living on the remains of bygone life
sucking his life out of the dead leaves of greater life than his own.
And even so, he’s stale, he’s been there too long
Touch him, and you’ll find he’s gone inside
just like an old mushroom, all wormy inside, and hollow
under a smooth skin and an upright appearance.
Full of seething, wormy, hollow feelings
rather nasty-
How beastly the bourgeois is!
Standing in their thousands, these appearances, in damp England
what a pity they can’t all be kicked over
like sickening toadstool, and left to melt back, swiftly
into the soil of England.
what a pity they can’t all be kicked over
like sickening toadstool, and left to melt back, swiftly
into the soil of England.
(Fuente: Veamosquienesraulracedo.blog)
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