Gringo : TJ Poemas

en la ballena

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en la ballena bailando	cantina	in the whale @ 03:33 a.m.
con/with	los artistas dancing
toman cerveza		tequila
.	y cigarros
de cual	time la hora	of what ofrece offers
	.
la barra sala de room of the bar	ya sillas chairs now	profesa y mesas and tables shows
		.
la cantina dice
		the bar says
bienvenidos,	toma	welcome drink
	.
Todavia está	joven	la madrugada.
The after-	midnight	is still young.
	.
03:53 that	increible	hora
	unbelievable	hour
.		not yet four
when they	shuffle to	their seats
seven beers	14 tequilas
and 20 dances		later
.
the norteño	still rolls
todavia rueda	el norteño
.
que llegan	las cuatro horas
that four o'clock arrives
.
y	todos	sentados
piensan de		dormir
and	everyone sits
thinking of sleep			.

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from notes scribbled in the bars on 22/23 September 2000 (file not available at this time) with Nina and other artists in the Turistico and later la Ballena as revisedited later.

Another version with practically no Spanish is also floating around somewhere. [PHILIP: Find and Link, pleez.]

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