| Cuando el juez le preguntó
| When the judge asked him
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| Por qué tuvo que matar,
| Why did he have to kill?
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| Mona, seria, respondió:
| Mona, serious, replied:
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| «Fue el calor y la humedad.»
| "It was the heat and the humidity."
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| Me contaron que esperó
| They told me that she waited
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| A la siesta de las tres.
| At the three o'clock nap.
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| En una mano un cenicero,
| In one hand an ashtray,
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| En un puño el corazón.
| In a fist the heart.
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| Como una fruta madura su cráneo se hundió.
| Like a ripe fruit her skull sank.
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| Sentada en el salón
| sitting in the living room
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| Con el cuerpo a sus pies
| With her body at his feet
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| Pensaba en que ella fue una vez
| She thought of where she once was
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| Joven, guapa y feliz.
| Young, pretty and happy.
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| «Hubo un tiempo en el que yo Habría muerto por amor.
| "There was a time when I would have died for love.
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| Hubo un tiempo en el que habría muerto por amor.»
| There was a time when I would have died for love."
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| Mona, calla, haz el favor.
| Mona, shut up, please.
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| Mona, me haces enfermar.
| Mona, you make me sick.
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| Ramona, ven aquí
| Ramona, come here
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| Que te voy a reventar.
| That I'm going to burst you.
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| Y si no hay nadie a quien culpar, culpemos a la humedad.
| And if there is no one to blame, let's blame the humidity.
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| Lo enterró en el jardín
| She buried him in the garden
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| A la sombra de un nogal,
| In the shade of a walnut tree,
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| Justo donde suelen ir Sus dos gatos a orinar.
| Right where Her two cats of hers usually go to pee.
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| «Esta vida iba a ser otra y algo salió mal.»
| "This life was going to be another and something went wrong."
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| «Sí, hubo un tiempo en el que yo Habría muerto por amor.
| "Yes, there was a time when I would have died for love.
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| Hubo un tiempo en el que habría muerto por amor.»
| There was a time when I would have died for love."
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| Nadie quiso saber más.
| Nobody wanted to know more.
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| Me juraron que así fue.
| They swore to me that it was.
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| Se quedó mirando afuera
| she stared outside
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| Esperando el anochecer.
| Waiting for nightfall.
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| Y corrió a ocupar la luna el lugar del sol,
| And she ran to take the moon in the place of the sun,
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| Y corrió a ocupar la luna el lugar del sol. | And she ran to take the moon in the place of the sun. |