Lazkao Txiki
Joxe Migel Iztueta, also known as "Lazkao Txiki" was a Basque poet.
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Iztueta was born in Lazkao, in Abaliñe baserria. He started going school when was 8. He learned very early reading and writting. When he was 9, he watched bertsolaris at first time (Uztapide and Zepai). He liked a lot this that he watched, and as a result he became a big enthusiast to bertsolaritza; He had to do the military service on Africa for two years. He said that he learned counting untill 10 on arab language. Lazkao Txiki was unmarried, and this loneliness was one of his thorns.
egoten naizen usterik,
ez bai dadukat andregairikan
ez bai daukat emazterik.
Hamaika aldiz egon izan naiz
barrua penaz beterik;
baina nik poza kantatutzen det
that i am ever happy.
it is that i haven't got a girlfriend
it is that i haven't got a wife
I have been a lot of times
With my inner full of sorrows;
But i sing over happiness
He was very nature lover. The children also liked him. Sometime he felt tired and bored about the bertsos environment. Worked as bricklayer, farmer, he sold fodder for cows... Lazkao Txiki was very witty telling jokes. He died in Donosti on 1993