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      Ahora que es el momento de Basquiat en el Guggenheim de Bilbao, también puede serlo de recordar Life Doesn't Frighten Me, un libro en el que la editora Sara Jane Boyers unió versos de la escritora estadounidense Maya Angelou (1928-2014) con obras del artista neoyorquino. Dos de las más poderosas personalidades artísticas norteamericanas unidas en un solo libro. Un clásico instantáneo que se puede leer traducido aquí y leído por la propia autora aquí.

 

Shadows on the wall, noises down the hall,
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.
Bad dogs barking loud, big ghosts in a cloud,
That doesn’t frighten me at all.

Mean old Mother Goose, lions on the loose,
They don’t frighten me at all.
Dragons breathing flame on my counterpane,
That doesn’t frighten me at all.

– I go Boo, make them shoo,
I make fun, a-waaay they run!
I won’t cry, so they fly,
I just smile, and they go wild!
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.

Tough guys in a fight, all alone at night,
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.
Panthers in the park, strangers in the dark,
No, they don’t frighten me at all.

That new classroom where
Boys all pull my hair,
They don’t frighten me – at all.
Kissy little girls
With their hair in curls,
They don’t frighten me – at all.

Don’t show me frogs and snakes
And listen for my screams
– IF I’m afraid at all,
It’s ONLY in my dreams…

I have got a magic charm that I keep up my sleeve,
I can walk the ocean floor and never have to breath.
Life doesn’t frighten me – not at all – not at all,
Life doesn’t frighten me at all.