When the trumpet sounded, was
all prepared on earth,
Jehovah divided the world
a coca-cola Inc. Anaconda,
Ford Motor, and other entities:
The Fruit Company Inc.
reserved the juicy.
The central coast of my land,
the sweet waist of America.
rechristened their lands,
as "Banana Republic"
and the sleeping dead,
on the restless heroes
who won greatness,
liberty and flags,
established opera buffa;
abolished free will
gift crowns,
unsheathed envy, attracted
the dictatorship of the flies,
Trujillo flies, cans,
flies Carias flies, Martinez - abortions of gorilettis
I place flies, wet flies
the sangre humilde y mermelada,
moscas de circo, sabias moscas
entendidas en tiranía.
Entre las moscas sanguinarias
la frutera desembarca,
arrancando el café y las frutas,
en sus barcos que deslizaron
como bandejas de tesoro
de nuestras tierras sumergidas.
Meanwhile, on the chasms
sugary ports
buried Indians fall
in the morning mist.
a body rolls, a thing
no name, a large fallen
a cluster of dead fruit
shed on the garbage heap .
, Pablo Neruda
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