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The Iowa Review
Volume 5
Issue 2 Spring
1974
Estoy En Larga Espera
Theresa Moritz
Albert Frank Moritz
Carlos Prospero
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Moritz, Theresa; Albert Frank Moritz; and Carlos Prospero. "Estoy En Larga Espera." The Iowa Review 5.2 (1974): 22-22. Web.
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Article 20
"ESTOYEN LARGA ESPERA"
I am
enduring the long wait
seated at a round table
a tub
my wif es washes
While
you can hear the sound of oil in the frying pan,
the tub.
my wife washes
I am
enduring the long wait
wife
my
mops the floor and also washes
and today is Sunday.
While
clothes
The president
of the republic of chile
on a visit to the
was here
yesterday
city
while we looked at the
budget
of the man who will put curtains in our house.
There were
in the papers
displays
and the crowd threw confetti
a
while the two presidents
passed in car;
and also, there on the flat roofs
a
guard of soldiers armed to the teeth.
clothes; and talks.
My wife washes
And she shapes the word with her mouth
that also talks about Hamlet
and Horatio
and tells me that she didn't get Ernesto's
While
this long wait
Sunday mornings
boys, little children,
lasts,
girls,
in
and in every part of the city
in every car, at every hour,
soldiers, soldiers and machine
Translated
by Theresa
address.
military
training
guns.
from the Spanish
and Albert Frank Moritz
Prospero
University of Iowa
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