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Talking to the echoing voice

As the evening was drawing in,oh dark skies,
Anton felt it livening him within in,
as if it came out of the soup calderon
along the squally path.
He shouted out a harsh blasphemy
and he said: Who has fallen upon me?
And in the wall of the monastery
The echo answered him :

You lie before that it was I who fell
and if my nut-head hadn’t broken
I would have given you a dressing-down
… Lucas!
I’m not Lucas, the great
… Anton!
¿Do you actually know me? ¡you villain!.
Just wait a second
and you’ll get a taste of my flick knife
… come down
¿Why did I descend so miserably?
¿Perhaps you believe me to be a ghost?,
on the contrary,it makes me rise
… ¡high!
¿And would you be so rude and daring
for a brave one to be sent standing ?.
I would humble him with great pleasure
until which his tongue became unpious
with my steel drilled in
… I barked
¡Oh let the villain go!,
because I vote for Barrabás
to wait for my getting bored
… donkey like
¿You really think I’m donkey-stupid like? ¿Possibly braying so?
An insult of such an extent
will be charged in a strange place
in a opportunistic place
… villain
Villain, no Sir.
In the Cipriano tavern,
if I drank like a villain,
I drank what he invited me with
… wine
Only if I drank two glasses
the two of which drove me wild,
in no way would I have thought about
… six
¡Oh earthly shadow how you do know it all!.
You may say goodbye whenever you want
for my time has finished now

And the good Anton went
without ever knowing
with whom he could have had
such a strange conversation

 

 
 
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