Mejor No Saber Nada

There's nothing simpler than smoking a cigarette
watching the smoke like a ship sailing away
looking at people, doing a crossword, narrowing down the universe
to what you can grasp.
Better not know anything about hunger, about wars
about how many are having a hard time
sometimes the news is so harsh that you can't bear it
you change the channel.
So far from Somalia or Sarajevo if I eat a couple of eggs
they can't make me sick.

There's nothing simpler than polishing again
the certainties that can help us
reading four different horoscopes you'll see that pure instinct
reveals the real one.
Things are never what they seem and the planet in so many centuries
has not stopped spinning.
Death only hits us if we see it so close
that it can splash us.
So far from one extreme and the opposite the sirloin I'm looking at
can't make me sick.

And so eating while meditating on the fleetingness of existence
in this so banal world.
He had to go, some urgency and towards the toilet with speed
he prepared to walk.
He pulled hard on the handle behind the door with wide open eyes
it seemed like glass.
Call an ambulance, pick up that hypodermic, comb her hair
lay her on the couch.
I can't understand what happened, I was watching on Telecinco
the coupon draw.