@tibianchini
1 year ago
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Father
- Corporal Mendes, he still doesn't want to cooperate.
A voice dripping with sarcasm. He couldn't take it anymore, but he couldn't say anything else. The commander was smiling - or so he imagined, for he could no longer distinguish the blurs between the swelling of the open eyelid and the blood that flooded the retina.
- What? Since yesterday, Commander. He won't open his mouth. What do we do?
Yesterday. Such a distant day. He didn't remember going to sleep, but he remembered waking up kicking.
"How hard it is to wake up quietly"
- You know what I think, Corporal Mendes?
- What? I think I can guess, Commander. You want me to go get the turquoise? Maybe he hasn't figured out what "pain" is yet.
New laughter, satisfied and eager for the next steps.
He tried not to forget why he was there. He tried to keep, on the immense screen of projection of his mind, that image of the sun rising behind the green mountains, of the land that one day swore to live and die, swore to fertilize and make productive.
- What? Yes, yes, Corporal... Then bring him the pain.
"Bring the pain"
He remembered the face of his Love, smiling, with loose hair and in the wind. It was with that face in mind that he wanted to say goodbye to this world... A new slap came to wake you from the daydreams:
- What? You're not gonna say anything, motherfucker? You know you're already dead, right? You're not leaving here anymore.
"Perhaps life is a fait accompli", but, no; that is not how the words came to mind. Now it made no difference: it was important to keep those he loved safe.
A sharp, pointed object ripped a finger from her; that finger that played the most beautiful songs for her in the net at sunset. Pain was no longer material; his body was no longer his indeed.
"Resist the cuckoo."
The pain was exhilarating, but the worst part was knowing that I would never go back to seeing those black eyes and that mouth that had so often made him lose his mind - and I just hoped that all that suffering was not in vain. I wouldn't say another word. Enough of what I couldn't bear.
- What? I'm trying to help you, you know... I know you wanted to be in your house... But what good is good will? You really suck. You're scum.
I heard laughter, echoing in the dizziness of the quiet night. The laughter that broke the silence was blended to the letter.
"All this silence stuns me"
And it was better this way: the torpor helped him abstract the pain that was still coming. The desperation of the body, still so rooted in the struggle for life that - he knew - was no longer worth anything.
You heard the bite from the turquoise blades. They spread his legs. Kicks and pins and pointed objects hitting the lower parts. The turquoise tinkle, voracious, coming to bite and smash everything I saw ahead.
He smelled a new smell between blood and dread: burned. His forehead burned under the hot iron.
"Smell of diesel oil smoke"
Do you know why we're marking you? Because you're nothing but cattle, you hear me? GADO. You obey the damn communists who want to make this country a new Cuba. A new Russia. A new Chile. Not here!
"So much lies, so much brute force"
New blow to the temple. All of a sudden, everything's gone silent.
"Silence in the city can't be heard"
For a moment, laughter gave way to nothing. And in the middle of nowhere, the voice of the beloved was able to stand out:
- Don't weaken. Maybe the world isn't small. Soon, we will meet in another reality, less dead.
How sweet was the voice of his beloved!... He drew a slight smile as he remembered; his mouth was already toothless and with a swollen tongue.
And then he felt between the legs that the turquoise worked.
An inhuman scream.
On the ground, a slippery sea,
"blood dye."
- Oh, you know what? This one won't be able to say anything, anyway.
He just wanted to go back to the world of his dreams. Go back to dreaming about your love in a cheetah dress, calling for lunch. He wanted to try that mouth and that body again, "die of my own poison."
The corporal sticks the knife in his neck, trying to separate the body from the mind.
"deep in the throat"
"the knife no longer cuts"
He's about to lose for good.
"lose your head for good."
I miss you. Feeling never again. Last memories of those black eyes. They'll be crying now, knowing their fate. Balbucia, almost inaudible:
- Get away... from me...
But the commander no longer has patience. Pull the colt, pull the trigger:
- Shut up.