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Daniel’s poem explores love, lust, and imprisonment through Gerineldo’s tower affair, highlighting isolation, longing, and desire, exclusively for Different Truths.
In this tower so sad and faded
Gerineldo spends his days polished
Dreaming, while he jerks off freely:
"How beautiful the lady will be
That she will sleep, one day
And forever, with me.”
Here he has been locked up
By a cuckolded king
Because he went too far
With the beautiful queen, his wife
That being sick one day
He, like a good Samaritan
The chastity cord opened her
With his long tongue
Around twelve thirty at noon
When the king was hunting
Through the Gorges of the Riaza River
North of the province of Segovia
Among the towns of Maderuelo
And Montejo de la Vega de la Serrezuela
With some men from Moradillo
Taking him between her legs
Making him her husband.
What a beautiful picture!
What a sad picture!
Seeing Gerineldo today
Capping cicadas
Marrying flies with bumblebees
Toads with lizards
And, in the cold of every night
Bring the bees and wasps
Milk milked from bats
That live in caves, today's wineries.
At dawn, when the sun rises
You see only one eye peek out
Through the crack in the tower.
It is from Gerineldo who looks, amazed
To the women of the town
Coming to take the first piss
Standing or squatting
For watering flowers, poppies and thistles
Before taking the morning walk
Required by their family doctor.
Thanks to the freshness of the morning
And the fragrance of flowers
Gerineldo, with pleasure, has come
Thinking of his beloved queen.
At will, he has hit his head
Against the stone wall
And he has fallen asleep, once again.
Through the crack in the tower
A voice comes out that only they hear
The females that pass by, who say:
Beautiful lady, I would sleep with you.
Never a better occasion.
Your husband is hunting!
Photograph by the poet
