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Appendix B: El Pecado Original, by Pablo Milan
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~PP~NDIX ~ El Pecado Original by Pablo Milanes Dos almas dos cuerpos dos hombres que se aman van a ser expulsados del parafso que les toco vivir. Ninguno de los dos es un guerrero que premio sus victorias con mancebos. Ninguno de los dos tiene riquezas para calmar la ira de sus jueces. Ninguno de los dos es presidente. Ninguno de los dos es un ministro. Ninguno de los dos es un censor de sus propios anhelos mutilados . . . y sienten que pueden en cada manana ver su arbol, su parque, su sol, Text taken from the program of the inaugural concert of Orfgenes presented in the Teatro Karl Marx, March 19 and 20, 1994· The translation is by Ian Lumsden. Copyrighfoo>cJl/aferial 210 como tu y como yo ... que pueden desgarrarse sus entraftas en la mas dulce intimidad con el amor as! como por siempre hundo mi carne desesperademente en tu vientre con amor tambien no somos Dios. No nos equivoquemos otra vez. The Original Sin Two souls two bodies two men who love each other are going to be expelled from the paradise in which they were destined to live. Neither of them is a warrior Appendix B who celebrated his victories with young men.· N either of them has riches with which to placate the fury of his judges. Neither of them is president. N either of them is a minister. Neither of them is a censor of his own mutilated desires . . . and each morning they can feel that they can see their tree, their park, their sun, like you and I ... that they can surrender their hearts in the most sweet intimacy of love just as I always sink my flesh desperately within your womb also with love We are not God. Let us not repeat the mistake. • Mancebos has no exact equivalent in English. It is a literary term on occasion associated with the ephebi of ancient Greece. Copyrighted Material ...