Los Muchachos de Mi Barrio

The windows of my neighborhood
have no bars
or flowerpots on the sills
that are not watered

The girls from my neighborhood
have no boyfriend
and they don't pray every day
to Saint Anthony

The boys from my neighborhood
like to smoke daily
the boys from my neighborhood...

The neighbors on my street
make lentils
if you want them, you eat them
and if not, you leave them,

sometimes it also smells
like stew and pot
and for those smells
I almost die.

Like lizards
I seek the sun
and there I like to smoke
the rolled ones