Hallowmas

Más y Menos,

los superheroes rapidos,

are tired out today

but you’re more tired out than they,

why don’t you want to play,

racin’ round the Christmas tree

like Titans.

—

Somos inmortales

nuestros espíritus at least

if you believe, I believe in blue

more sparkling than the water,

dancing pictures prettier than the real thing.

—

Batalla still fighting

fireworks all blinding

battle for your lives

and your kitchen knives

all the queen’s knave-friends and all the queen’s maids

couldn’t pay Humpty’s grand debt that he gained

so the queen got bored biding,

her decree had him climbing;

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

tumbling and bouncing down off the wall

like a bad Vans shoe

that slogged through the bamboo zoo

facing extin–

but aye, okay,

we vivamos para siempre

nuestros espíritus

tocar la tierra

y volar a Venus

esperanzo, never go

from me

for in this hallowed hand

yo quiero más

del mundo

más

del corazón

más

de la luz

more power to choose

who and where I am

and what has power to touch me to

break me (slowly) to carry me up, carry me higher

–tocarme,

romperme lentamente luego llevarme arriba, más alto–

I’m comin’ a la batalla you know

never ending I’ll glow

I’m comin’ in blinding

a firework striking

the night brilliant jade, a golden gleam

with a brutal need

watch me preen

watch me takin’ over this scene

a pretty thing

in sulfur smoke.

soak the moon in phosphorus;

pause for us, take a sauce for us, a far spore rust trailing glitter dust for us

through the ruins of your lust

the skeletons of the just

litter the valley floor,

poisonous and poor,

but maybe a flower could blossom there if it knew how to take the toxic gusts

y romper con sus roots the earthen crust

del tu shattered trust

open up that purple puerta

let’s go to la guerra

sieging you to the core

have faith a little more

(come on, dame un poco more)

and dance with me under the smoggy summer moon,

asking of her one more boon–

will you vendrás a llevarnos soon?

—

I stand vigil

watch this sky with you

Hallowmas comes

una vez el año

y you best believe

I will be waiting.