Since I never had a world among the living/offer me a world among the dead!

— Julia de Burgos Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

ya que no tuve nunca un mundo entre los vivos,/un mundo entre los muertos ofrecedme, soldados!

Original text (Spanish)

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