One poem

Translated from Spanish by Terry Hermsen and Sydney Tammarine

the choir of commenters from emol.com perform 

the dance of death in penn station

choir

as you walk by in promenade beware

dung of the country whatever your estate;

whatever soul refuses will surely lick his fate

even more in the force that rides within my anger.

you've been warned, if you would not save

yourself with obedience, you’ll lose that tinted

curl, and your voice in penitence

so sing out now, and then shut up.

angelo sommaruga – top commenter

first he is not a murderer but a true soldier

who challenged the communists and their terrorism

as for rules you know it’s clear

that every fight against them requires some suspension

so praise to this agent and all those imprisoned

who served their time for defending chile

allende and those other terrorist minions

could not be allowed to seal the deal

choir

you dare not object, sir saint angelo

that into my dance i’ve sequestered your faith.

it shall never protect you, your empty mantle

and your puffed-up cowardice in your poisoned night.

do not think you can hide in your engorged crusade

and your procured portrait offers nothing now

here you will die with your sins hanging out.

dance now, jimenez, in the dung ye have made!

ricardo jimenez – top commentator 

those damn and aging communists

so fucking useless they've got no clue

hidden cowards who throw stones at you

but are off in a flash if you tighten the screws.

they’re not worth dick these reds of shit.

and that old woman, who told her to do it?

a bomb up her ass, she ran off and wept

a victim of herself like all those on the left

choir

more tyrant than the tyrant king you followed

though in truth no kingdom of his you shared

for justice itself you barely cared

as every one of your words makes clear.

come before me, i am the true monarch

who will snatch you out and all others most high

step into my dance, court monger despised.

after your soul comes campos, the patriarch.

jaime campos – top commenter 

good cops must always act as they do

everyone of course has the right to redress

to gather freely and parade as they choose

but the hate of these dogs is pure cowardice

that old bitch deserved what she got.

the carabineros are the law, they need to crush it out

for these communist dogs respect nothing devout

living only to hate till they whip their cocks off

choir 

sir campos, never did i hate you

to any extent you did not deserve;

to slaughter them all was your custom most cruel,

to escape my decree no soul ever dares. 

here’s what thy silent compliance won thee 

for enjoying the secret injustice you’ve done.

for you set some aside, self servant that ye be.

now come alvaro,      ere i choke on this blood.

alvaro brantes – top commenter 

it’s the same as with that other dog allende

cursed are those who murder for class

and envy, communist hate that seeks to defend

the lazy, the partiers, the filthy of the flats

when it's all been made clear, they get less

than a twit, so communist their soccer teams

aren’t worth shit, they dwell in total darkness

the swollen joke that holds their brains.

choir

it serves naught to speak with those who should stay quiet

dressed up and down in their filth—forget about dogs, arrive

on horseback to your happy dance, not so glum—

with no more noise, i’ll gladly hold my tongue.

but i’ll tell you in truth, when the time comes around

you’ll take on a figure most other disguised:

beauty turned doglike as in those you despised.

come dance now, statesman, with your new crown!

the statesman – top commenter

if it hadn’t been for our brave military

chile would be like cuba or columbia

strewn with tyranny and grimy guerillas

who kidnap and maim without end or mercy.

hundreds, thousands of guns and weapons

stockpiled there in carrizal. my government

had good reason: we were headed the direction

of civil war. that was never just a story we invented.

choir

statesman friend, remove your sham hat,

enter the dance all suave and at your best,

for howsoever to your brothers you act,

the very self-same shall come to you in that.

your dignity yes according to the text,

to be a good chilean, so to prove and attest:

if badly you ruled, so shall you get.

now your turn, pepe dick, you’re making me sick.

pepe pepito – top commenter

are we then allowed no more speech and freedom?

don’t forget, the majority of our countrymen

asked in their quarters for this intervention.

it was you marxists who injected your venom

here in my country, by forcing election

of leftist judges and their endless tribunals

seeking revenge upon our good generals

who defeated them with force and with reason.

choir

canonical friend, it was not the way

you thought; proffer me thy hand.

the tribunal delegate who came

into your mind will prove far less grand.

i will slip thee a hint that will see thee through:

turn your argument around with a backwards glance

and there in truth will you find your sentence.

come then, good boris, who stands there aloof.

boris marinkovic - top commenter

of course all that crap about human rights

paid off for those who profited

from it, the muggers, the fags, and those marxists

that’s how they made a living: mere drones who slacked     

at the cost of us who broke our backs.

profiting from pensions that they never earned

none were exonerated, all were dismissed

for their ineptness, laziness, and ignorance

choir

you bore me, boris, you dance better in silence.

and the others too, whatever law or refusal,

i command thee likewise to hail here at once

and enter my dance with no more excuses.

never will i ever make room for exception

nor other forms of libelous declension;

what you did will be written forever in history

what you didn’t, just the same, in this last lesson.