A Few Crazy Fools

A Few Crazy Fools

Cristobal Salinas Jr.

Iowa State University

Welcome to the Challenge

I do not understand, I am lost, and they don’t respect me,

They shout at me, they insult me, they tell me what to do, and they ignore me.

La Pinta, La Niña, y La Santa María,

We come with stress,

We live among a few crazy fools

It’s a fact; don’t you see it?

We live in history,

Patience is required to endure,

We live confused and lost,

And they continue to disrespect us.

I am tired of carrying rocks in my pockets,

I cannot stand the shouting and insults,

If you don’t like my work, you should come and sit next to me.

My people are always firm,

Perhaps you have not noticed.

They are powerful classes,

Children who want to educated

But instead of teaching,

They help us to be suffocated.

Continue to work hard and you better excel,

If you go away, you will not return,

We are all like the shooting stars.

They want to take our eyes out,

We are the cause of their anger.

Zero drugs, zero compassion,

But in the end, there is a lot of temptation.

A year ago, we were strangers,

This year, we are recognized,

We got lost between shouts and insults,

But we have found ourselves among the Purple nation/individuals.

The secret is that everything is a play,

That shakes and shakes.

We live among a few crazy fools,

It’s a fact, if we make a mistake,

The grave will not forgive us.

It has a price.

Although it sounds so simple,

I carry all the bricks,

Until the children get tired,

And the crickets of shouting.

Everything is like a screw,

Hypocrites.

They seek how to humiliate

But in the end everything is love.

They step on us like rats,

They are a few crazy fools,

But we love each other.

It is not so easy,

Although, it sounds so simple,

I will paint each brick

Of our castle.

My talents with them are well utilized,

We unite the best because the best only survive,

We fear nothing, we unite,

And I doubt those bastards will derive us.

“With love and respect to all my Brothers of the Purple Nation.”

Original version in Spanish can be found at: 
http://salinasjrc1.blogspot.com/2011/03/pocos-pero-locos.html
http://www.eliluminador.com/2011/06/23/locos-pero-pocos/
http://latinoakc.blogspot.com/2012/02/locos-pero-pocos.html