Of Cardboard Mankind is Made / De cartón el hombre se hizo
Original poem in Spanish by Sergio Fong, from the anthology Letras de Cartón, a collaborative publication from twenty cartonero publishers in eight countries. Link to bilingual version/ versión bilingüe (PDF). English translation by David Brendan O’Meara. Of cardboard mankind is made Cartonero is the name of the manwho walks among the entrails of the urban animalthrough its despised innardsCrawling worm that sifts and winnowsthrough the garbage of the great capital and its outcasthuman dregsWho harvests the skin […]
