ODE TO MATE COOKED
Nestoroff
After Mario talked about the mate, the best and was
said.
But he did not speak of boiled
verdecita steaming cup flavored
colimba and poor multitude. Neither the snack
public employees with some biscuits
but exiled to the outside of the offices, beyond
the
carpets and air conditioning. The blends
cooked with just a cookie on top of a scaffold,
and celebration for the magic
of thousands of bricks ordered,
for the office, lime and plumb, there
in the wind.
The cooked pudding is supportive,
breakfast and more, here in the south, Latin American
.
is asking the poor neighborhoods, when politicians pass
geography of voting and the promise.
One cup of cooked with milk and a loaf of bread,
prevent fainting in school,
and shiver
pale little children in front of the same national flag.
In our hearts, we know, too,
to waving that flag, wave,
teachers and revealed his dream.
children eager to learn,
biscuits, love and tender. Those who crave
simply
work of his hands
feed their children.
If ministers, governors, presidents, puppets
amazed at the globalization, they knew,
how a child's heart beats
over a cup of stew.
Or if those children one day know
how to be dignified, free,
Argentines.
Lestani Eduardo Gomez. Poet, writer, essayist and playwright born in Resistencia, Chaco province, where he lives. He studied medicine at the National University of Cordoba, where he graduated as a surgeon, and served from 1982 to 1984 the president of the Medical Union of Resistance. He held several positions in the provincial government: Secretary of Promotion and Community Assistance (1973-1974) and Secretary of Culture (1987-1991). In the period 1974-1984 was president of SADE (Sociedad Argentina de Escritores) of Chaco. As a novelist, is author of "Chronicle of Mount "and " The poisoned and rites ", among others. His poetry, conversational tone, not entangled in elaborate metaphors, by contrast, fixed on the paper with the right words, acquires density due to the strength of meaning. "From one to the crowd" and "Odes popular" are two of his poems.
