Dressed in their best festival finery…
The Catrinas have begun arriving in town…
You see them loitering on street corners…
Hanging out on balconies (I think she’s in drag)…
All the better to see and be seen.
However, in the end, no matter how fancy their finery and glittery their jewels, as José Guadalupe Posada wrote,
La muerte es democrática, ya que a fin de cuentas, güera, morena, rica o pobre, toda la gente acaba siendo calavera
(Death is democratic, because after all, light-skin, brown, rich or poor, everyone ends up being a skull)
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J. Guadalupe said/wrote it very well !! I recall reading quotes from the great Aztec poet Nezahualcoyotl in a similar context, different words albeit, but same meaning…. and so true !!!
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Nezahualcoyotl , the great Aztec emperor echoed those words…..and how true !!!
I always enjoy your blog. Oaxaca is one of my favorite places having spent eight weeks there on two occasions and hoping to return soon.
Gracias,
Richard Griffith
Lookout Mountain, GA
Richard, thank you for reading my blog and for your very kind words. Oaxaca is a special place and I hope you can return to experience it again.