No Es Serio Este Cementerio

This Cemetery Is Not Serious

Hanging from the sky
by twelve cypresses
Twelve green apostles
watch for twelve months
at the ruined wall
that delimits it
they have removed some stones
to build the hermitage
my cemetery has a common grave
where the heroes of Cuba are
on Sundays the Black people don't let us sleep
because they feel like singing Luba mass
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And the dead here have a great time
among colorful flowers
and on Fridays and such
if there's no plan in the grave
we dress up and go out
To take a walk
without going past the door, that's for sure
because the dead here
is where they should be
and the sky can wait for me
This cemetery
is not just anything
because the tombstones in the back
are made of pink marble
and although there are good tombs
the niches are better
because they are cheaper
and there are hardly any bugs
The family pantheon
of the Dukes of Medina and Luengo
even though the final judgment
treats us all the same
here there are people of noble lineage
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