Fangal

Bog

Fangal

I saw her coming in a false square,Yo la vi que se venía en falsa escuadra,
It tilted, it tilted along the edge of the mud!...se ladeaba, se ladeaba por el borde del fangal!..
Poor girl who was born in a tenement¡Pobre mina que nació en un conventillo
with the brick floors, the cistern and the grapevine!con los pisos de ladrillos, el aljibe y el parral!
Someone threw the banana, which she accidentally stepped on,Alguien tiró la banana, que ella pisó sin querer,
And just like that, when I saw that he was already lying on his back,y justito, cuando vi que se venía ya decúbito dorsal,
I grabbed it!...¡me la agarré!...

I was a foolFui un gil
because I believed that there I invented honor,porque creí que allí inventé el honor,
a gilun gil
who held up a tomato and thought it was a flower.que alzó un tomate y lo creyó una flor.
And I'm still agileY sigo gil
when I presume that I saved love,cuando presumo que salvé el amor,
since she wasya que ella fue
who broke my sorrows with blows...quien a trompadas me rompió las penas...
Come now,Ya ven,
I returned to the filth of living in poverty.volví a la mugre de vivir tirao.
Wow!¡Caray!
If only she would remind me that I have saved her!...¡Si al menos me engrupiera de que la he salvao!...

(This was said by the "cusifai" while the "thing"(Esto dijo el "cusifai" mientras la "cosa"
I was frolicking, I was frolicking, already lost in the mud,retozaba, retozaba ya perdida en el fangal,
and he drank a disastrous giny él tomaba una ginebra desastrosa
between Kurdas and miscreants at the table in that bar...).entre curdas y malandras en la mesa de aquel bar...).
If someone threw the banana, he, who was a fool, pushed itSi alguien tiró la banana, él, que era un gil, la empujó
and just when he saw that he was already lying on his back,y justito cuando vio que se venía ya decúbito dorsal,
It caught on!...¡se le prendió!...