La funcionaria [English translation]

Papers pile up

in my working desktop

I'm sick of breaking my head

against sheets and files.

I'll send it all to hell

I don't wanna be paid by job

if I must pass another winter like this

I'll end like a bell-pull

I don't know why I did that exam,

instead of studying haute couture.

I don't know what's funny and mysterious

of being a public worker in a ministry.

I'd like to be a vegetable,

of the garden of a cemetery

or a simple mineral.

Or also a crystal spider

of an empire-style palace

or medieval carve

of some monastery.

Papers overpass

the height of my head,

I'd throw myself by the window

if I wasn't so lazy.

I can't work without wanting it,

it's not in my nature,

overhuman forces are needed

to achieve that feat.