Jaime Sabines
1926-1999

Cuando Tengas Ganas de Morirte

 

 

Cuando Tengas Ganas de Morirte

Jaime Sabines  
Mexican Poet   

 Esconde la cabeza bajo la almohada

y cuenta cuatro mil borregos.

Quédate dos días sin comer

y verás que hermosa es la vida:

carne, frijoles, pan,

Quédate sin mujer: verás.

 

Cuando tengas ganas de morirte,

no alborotes tanto: muérete

y ya.

" Jaime Sabines es uno de los mejores poetas contemporáneos de nuestra lengua, muy pronto desde su primer libro encontró su voz, una voz inconfundible"

Octavio Paz  

 

 

When Ever You Feel Like Dying

 Hide your head under your pillow

and count four thousand sheep.

Stay without eating for two days,

you’ll see how beautiful life is:

steak, beans, bread,

Be without a woman: you’ll see

 

Whenever you feel like dying

Don’t make such a hassle: just

Die!

" Jaime Sabines is one of the best contemporary poets in our language,  he found his voice, an unmistakable voice very soon, ever since his first book"

Octavio Paz

 

"Recogiendo Poemas" Jaime Sabines Ediciones Zarebska, Mexico, 1998

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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