Lamento de Pobre

I live from odd jobs and work until I'm exhausted
I can't take it anymore, I'm almost desperate
I felt like leaving my homeland
Because the company went bankrupt and I'm unemployed

Damn crisis is suffocating me
I'm almost crazy, I don't know what to do
And poverty is lurking around us
If the president doesn't change, I might even die

I'm thinner than a skinny picketer
Without work and without money, I can't afford groceries
And my credit has long run out
My pot has rusted, they don't sell to me on credit anymore

My old stove wobbles worse than a hammock
It has no wall, the Santa Fe has rotted
I look up, all I see is the sky as shelter
And my wife is mad at me for lacking bread for breakfast

And the kids suffering desperately
Frantic for hardly eating anything
They don't play anymore, half of them cry
And the rest scratch themselves from a damn scabies

I'm thinner than a skinny picketer
Without work and without money, I can't afford groceries
And my credit has long run out
My pot has rusted, they don't sell to me on credit anymore

My stomach growls from emptiness
At noon, when I lay down to rest
I lie in bed and think of being calm
And a damn flea won't let me rest

When I lie down, it's worse than a fox's nest
There's little bedding, I feel cold and tangled
I lose sleep, I roll until early morning
And when the flea calms down, the mosquito sucks my blood

I'm thinner than a skinny picketer
Without work and without money, I can't afford groceries
And my credit has long run out
My pot has rusted, they don't sell to me on credit anymore

I pray to God that something remains for me
My topknot rooster died of the plague
Without a fridge, summer is coming again
I'm sweating so much that everything is rotting

My dog sees the prey but doesn't attack
She's very weak, she doesn't bark at anyone
And a skinny dog that, these days, he falls over
Bites even his shadow out of so much hunger

I'm thinner than a skinny picketer
Without work and without money, I can't afford groceries
And my credit has long run out
My pot has rusted, they don't sell to me on credit anymore