The Revolutionaries Try Again by Mauro Javier Cardenas

Author:Mauro Javier Cardenas
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781566894470
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2016-06-22T04:00:00+00:00

IX / ROLANDO LOOKS FOR EVA

Check — Check — Is this thing on? — It is? — So what? — Anyone out there? — Do you like magic? — Say you’re strolling by a — Taking a stroll by a pond where a child’s drowning what do you do? — I don’t even unstrap my watch you say — I don’t even slip out of my penny loafers — I dive right in — Yes quite commendable sir but why are you sporting penny loafers by a pond? — And what if it turns out you’re the child in the pond who will dive in for you? — My neighbor you say — My cousins — El Mono Egas because I owe him a crate of bananas — But what if you look around and discover they’re in the pond too? — Say we’re all drowning in the pond and howling for help but no one comes for us because the perimeter of the pond is said to be dangerous? — the piranhas Mama — Who if we cried out would come for us? — It’s silent here tonight — Have we all gone? — Are we still here? — and where is Eva tonight? — Rolando thinks — is she listening to his broadcast from her igloo? — And if one day we manage to crawl out of the pond — To slither out like half men half snakes — Like half women half manatees — Do the ones who didn’t come for us have the right to grouse against our torching of their homes? — To plead mercy when we line them up against a great wall and spray them with dark brown pond? — Does anyone have a garden hose I can borrow? — Preferably longish? — Oh what’s this folks we have us a caller hello pond repair — That’s not funny folks hello you’re on the air — Hello I’m always on the air but no one listens ha ha — Aha a regular listener do you have a request? — A question — We’re listening — Do you have a father? — Sometimes — And you don’t think your father would dive in for you? — He’s already in the pond sir — What if he knows how to float? — He does have a whale of a belly but it doesn’t at present function as a floating device — What if he knew about the pond beforehand and had floaters strapped around his waist? — Floaters deflate sir — Say you’re in the pond and you just found out you’re going to have a son — I’m not bringing children into this pond sir — Do you not think you would prepare giraffe floaters for your boy? — I’m not bringing children into the — Don’t underestimate fathers Rolando — Dad? — Yes? — I — I don’t think listeners of Radio Nuevo Día want to — Dad? — Dad? — Apparently the

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