Pau

Stick works and studies,
reviews notes and books
under the table halfway hidden

in a small office
where he makes a living
with a temporary contract.

Stick shares the fridge
with two coworkers
and a semi-illegal Moroccan

and in the room he dreams
of a girl from Girona
who lives in the building across the street.

Stick is like the rest,
when he drinks too much he annoys
the waitresses at the bars.

But at the same time he moves,
he wants to change the world.

Stick doesn't wait from the trench,
Stick is clear he doesn't want to give up.
Stick doesn't resign himself to the ground,
Stick will start again tomorrow.

Stick faces every day
the pornography that spreads
the neoliberal world.

Stick sometimes despairs
but he knows there's no truce
in such an unequal fight.

Stick is not a hero,
he has no vocation
to be part of the saints.

But to sleep peacefully
he must keep going.

Stick doesn't wait from the trench,
Stick is clear he doesn't want to give up.
Stick doesn't resign himself to the ground,
Stick will start again tomorrow.