Annotations for Domingo’s Mother of Hades.
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from Yo soy Joaquín, suggested reading for Volume 3
Rodolfo Gonzáles
was a Mexican American[ boxer, poet, and political activist. He convened the first-ever Chicano youth conference in March 1969, which was attended by many future Chicano activists and artists. As an early figure of the movement for the equal rights of Mexican Americans, he is often considered one of the founders of the Chicano Movement. With his poem Yo Soy Joaquín, known in English as I Am Joaquin, Gonzales shared his new cosmological vision of the "Chicano", who was neither Indian nor European, neither Mexican nor American, but a combination of all the conflicting identities
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Nomás estaba pensando
I was just thinking
el chingado incendiote
the fucking fire
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Que pinchi hora es
what time is it
ni senas no pío
no sign, no peep
lo más marciano
the most martian – probably meaning “the weirdest thing is…”
se esfumaron
vanished
lugar oscuro
dark place, grave
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gritos
shouting
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fracasó
flop, failure
plática
chat, talk
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esta aqui
is here
anda bien arriba
walk up right, fell well above
al cuás
?
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tiene mi auto
he has my car
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recibe llamadas
recieve calls
siempre ha tenido miedo
he has always been afraid
orgullosa
proud
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podrido
rotten
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que trae este pendejo?
what carries this asshole (probably something like „what makes him tick?“)
limpialo
clean it up
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muy, muy lejos
very far
me entiendes
you understand me?
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