Julia De Burgos 2/17/14 – 7/6/53
"Dadme Mi Numero"
"¡Dadme mi número! No quiero que hasta el amor se me desprenda...
Unido sueño que me sigue como a mis pasos va la huella.
¡Dadme mi número, porque si no,
me moriré después de muerta!"
Julia De Burgos, one of the best Puerto Rican and Latin American poets, was found dying of pneumonia in the streets of Spanish Harlem. When she died she was in the morgue with a Jane Doe toe tag and was given a peasants burial.
It is said the this poem was her was her predicting her own death because in it she ask to be given her number, the number that identify her in the morgue
