Cómo he escrito ciertos de mis libros
mi cencerro yace abandonado junto a un platillo de China

le pido prestado una frase a un amigo
algo para la solapa de un libro que no he escrito

mis reticencias, que no me salvan del insulto
de todo lo que a la vez es previsible e incoherente

How I wrote certain of my books
my cowbell lies abandoned next to a China cymbal

I ask to borrow a phrase from a friend
a blurb for I book I have not written

my reticences, that don't protect me from insult
from everything that is at one and the same time predictable and incoherent