Objects in the Mirror by Nicolò Govoni
Author:Nicolò Govoni [Govoni, Nicolò]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-06T16:00:00+00:00
MEL
little girl. Mel grabs Ferang by the arm and pulls. She would like to scream and put a stop to this scene, this atrocious display of Western supremacy, but fears that she will attract even greater attention to herself and so she grabs tighter, sinking her nails in his skin, but the jerk sure enough doesn’t turn around, in ecstasy, and so Mel follows his gaze and sees, on a concrete barrier, a girl, a street creature dressed in rags, her dark skin bleached by the dust covering the sharp, pronounced bones and ribs and collar bone protruding as a sign of malnutrition, her hair unkempt, a bush discolored by the sun, and her warm, deep eyes, which only those who have the street in their genes show off. It is a pitiful scene. The little girl holding a baby in her arms, a naked child whose privates are covered by a layer of dirt, a sleeping child abandoned in her tiny arms, in the midst of the crowd, with all this noise and the dust, but despite the racket, the girl is not there, her eyes vacant as if looking without really seeing. She even forgets to beg. This is exactly why the world is disgusting.
Mel squeezes Ferang’s the arm with all she has, then, leaning through the crowd, she runs her hand in his hair and again squeezes, pulls, but Ferang
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