Little Man - Alfonsina Storni - Argentina

Hombre Pequeñito, poem by Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938)

Hombre Pequeñito		​Little Man
​Hombre pequeñito, hombre pequeñito, Suelta a tu canario que quiere volar... Yo soy el canario, hombre pequeñito, déjame saltar. Estuve en tu jaula, hombre pequeñito, hombre pequeñito que jaula me das. Digo pequeñito porque no me entiendes, ni me entenderás. Tampoco te entiendo, pero mientras tanto ábreme la jaula que quiero escapar; hombre pequeñito, te amé media hora, no me pidas más.		Little man, little man, Release your canary that wants to fly... I am the canary, little man, let me jump. I was in your cage, little man, Little man, what cage do you give me? I say little because you don't understand me, you won't understand me I don't understand you either, but in the meantime Open the cage for me, I want to escape; little man, I loved you half an hour, don't ask me for more

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About the Poet

Alfonsina Storni was a poet and journalist in Argentina with powerful, sensual and ironic works that deal with the stereotypes of women, their dissatisfaction with the Hispanic-American man, among others.

She had a difficult life financially and with problems with depression, being a single mother and suffering gender prejudice in the literary world. She is considered one of the greatest poets of her time, having her work vulgarized because she is a woman talking about desire.