havingapoemwithyou:

Prayer/Oracion By Francisco X. Alarcón Translated By Francisco Aragón I want a god as my accomplice who spends nights in houses of ill repute and gets up late on Saturdays a god who whistles through the streets and trembles before the lips of his lover a god who waits in line at the entrance of movie houses and likes to drink café au lait a god who spitsALT
blood from tuberculosis and doesn’t even have enough for bus fare a god knocked unconscious by the billy club of a policeman at a demonstration a god who pisses out of fear before the flaring electrodes of torture a god who hurts to the last bone and bites the air in pain a jobless god a striking god a hungry god a fugitive god an exiled god an enraged godALT
a god who longs from jail for a change in the order of things I want a more godlike godALT

Prayer/Oracion by Francisco X. Alarcón tr. Francisco Aragón