The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel

Author:Stênio Gardel
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781954404120
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Published: 2023-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Creide and Alex

Raimundo and Suzzanný were eager to get home and rest, but there were Creide and Alex on the sidewalk, starting the evening with the stereo on the ground outside, beer and kebabs on the coffee table from the living room.

“They’re here, now the party can get started, Alex.”

“True. How was the Christmas shopping, Suzzanný?”

“There were too many people everywhere, on the streets, in the stores, entire hordes. And this one took forever to pick a set of Christmas cards.”

“And I still have to write all of them.”

“Dance with me first.”

Alex got up and pulled Raimundo by the arm, and danced to a song that had just started.

This is a quick one, let him lead, yes, I let him take me to that place, it was scary the first time, seeing men with their pants down like that, their dicks in their hand, the televisions around the old house playing tapes of pornographic films, but there were rooms with no TVs too, where people could touch each other, without having to deceive anyone, this Alex, he did deceive me, said that he slept with a lot of women, and he really must have, he always had a woman hanging from his neck, he even had a son, but he liked to stay in the corners of the makeshift porn theater, hanging around some man’s neck, but he and I never did anything back then, only after we stopped working together, And how did you find me, Alex? You’d said you were going to stay at an old woman’s house, Dona Solange, before going back home, I couldn’t find her anymore, but the neighbors remembered you and the other one, so I asked, And are you still on the road? Yes, just now I arrived from up north, though he was from the South, his hair was light, his body milky, large, he was still in one piece, and he invited me to go to the porn theater, I don’t go there anymore, you can go if you want, or you can stay here, And do you live alone? With Suzzanný, And where is she? Out, That lock of white hair, won’t the rest of your hair turn white? and he didn’t go to the porn theater, he stayed home with me, and every time the truck went by these parts, he always stopped here, he didn’t stay long for the same silly reason I wouldn’t have at first, though this isn’t silly, this stuff messes with people’s heads, he wasn’t comfortable with Suzzanný, and he didn’t want to give people a reason to talk, as he said, though it made no sense to listen to what people thought was inside us when we knew that wasn’t what was inside us at all, I told him, one day he up and left, to deliver cargo somewhere, he didn’t come back for almost a year, I assumed it was over between us, he could keep his porn theater, each of us

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