Psicotropica

Me da vértigo el punto muerto
y la marcha atrás,
vivir en los atascos,
los frenos automáticos y el olor a gasoil.
Me angustia el cruce de miradas
la doble dirección de las palabras
y el obsceno guiñar de los semáforos.
Me da pena la vida, los cambios de sentido,
las señales de stop y los pasos perdidos.
Me agobian las medianas,
las frases que están hechas,
los que nunca saludan y los malos profetas.
Me fatigan los dioses bajados del Olimpo
a conquistar la Tierra
y los necios de espíritu.
Me entristecen quienes me venden clinex
en los pasos de cebra,
los que enferman de cáncer
y los que sólo son simples marionetas.

Me aplasta la hermosura
de los cuerpos perfectos,
las sirenas que ululan en las noches de fiesta,
los códigos de barras,
el baile de etiquetas.
Me arruinan las prisas y las faltas de estilo,
el paso obligatorio, las tardes de domingo
y hasta la línea recta.
Me enervan los que no tienen dudas
y aquellos que se aferran
a sus ideales sobre los de cualquiera.
Me cansa tanto tráfico
y tanto sinsentido,
parado frente al mar mientras que el mundo gira.

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.