The houses of the upper neighborhood*

Houses of the upper neighborhood with bars and front garden, a beautiful entrance of fences and a front yard waiting for a Peugeot.

There are pink, green, white and light blue, the houses of the upper neighborhood all made with ticky tack

And the people of the houses they smile and visit each other. They go together to the supermarket and they all have a TV.

There are dentists merchants, landlords and traffickers, lawyers and tenants and they all wear polycron.

They play bridge, they drink dry Martini and the children are blonde and with other little blondes They go to high school together.

And his daddy’s little boy then he goes to university beginning his problematic and social intricacies.

Smoke joints in Austin Minis, play with bombs and politics, murder Generals, and he’s a gangster of sedition.

*This song (“Little Boxes”) belongs to the North American folk singer and activist Malvina Reynolds. Translated into Spanish as “Cajitas”, this version by Víctor Jara was highly celebrated by the author.