She goes on being a poem, Julia de Burgos;/the bourgeois of… - Julia de Burgos

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She goes on being a poem, Julia de Burgos;/the bourgeois of the cosmos, who is not a bourgeois/the way men want her to be-since she smiles/much more than at the mirror, the river and the jungle

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Julia de Burgos (February 17, 1914 – July 6, 1953) was a Puerto Rican poet.

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And yet, you have not died Martí, you only sleep;/the earth requested you like a flag

Workers! Slash the fear./Yours is the naked earth./Leap hunger and death/over the deep lagoon,/and join the peasants/and those knotted to the cane./Break a million fists/against so unjust a morality!/Raise, raise your arms!

¡Qué inmenso es ser al creerse muerto!

She goes on being a poem, Julia de Burgos;/the bourgeois of the cosmos, who is not a bourgeois/the way men want her to be-since she smiles/much more … - Julia de Burgos

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