Or you could go out by yourself even to a half-block-long empty lot, into the bushes: like a creature of leaves you'd lurk, crouched, crawling, simplified, savage, alone; already there was wanting to be simpler, wanting, when they called you, never to go back.
O hasta podías salir tú solo a una larga parcela vacía, entre los arbustos: como una criatura de hojas merodeabas, en cuclillas, arrastrándote, simplificado, salvaje, solo; ya sentías el deseo de ser más simple, deseabas, cuando te llamaban, nunca regresar.