2.     Traditional Poem

 

Ahi viene el agua

Por la ladera,

y se me moja

Mi calavera.

La muerte calaca,

ni gorda ni flaca.

La muerte casera,

Pegada con cera.

Hear comes the water

Down the slope

And my skull

Is getting wet.

Death, a skeleton

Neither fat nor skinny.

A homemade skeleton

Stuck together with wax.