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100 Refutations: Day 7 | InTranslation (intranslation.brooklynrail.org)

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Joaquín Pasos (1914-1947) was born in Granada, Nicaragua, studied law at the University of Managua, and was part of the Nicaraguan Movimiento de Vanguardia. He wrote plays, poems, and essays, and was occasionally incarcerated for his involvement in satirical work mocking the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza García.

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from the article:

The Old Indians

The old men, very old, are sitting down beside their goats, beside their small tame animals.

The old men are sitting down beside a river that flows always very slowly.

Before them, the air stops its march; It drifts by, contemplating them; touching them, carefully so as not to crush, hearts made of ash

The old men take their sins out to pasture; this is their only job. They let them run wild during the day, and the day they spend forgetting, In the evening they set them free to sleep beside them, keeping warm.