ORLANDO LEON (Venezuelan)
Translated by C. S.
Rosalia Sanchez has 7 children, 12 diseases, 3 abortions and a shanty and garbage for a sociologist’s fruition.
Rosalia is 27 years, 100 years, 500 years old. For 50 years, 100 years, 500 years, Rosalia has needed to eat.
Who wants to buy the eating machine of Rosalia? Who wants to buy 500 years, 500 Rosalias?… not making a technical point about the quinquennia?
Rosalia is a maid who once had a policeman, who once had a hodman, who once had a child, …7 times a child.
Rosalia is made of bones, made of flesh, the same as a cow, the same as a hen, but without a pasture, without a coup.
Hay for Rosalia! Maize for Rosalia!
For 500, 1000, 1200 years, since the times of Ur Rosalia has wanted maize.
When they were painting the Cave of Altamira, Rosalia was 20 years old, had 3 children, and the moon was shining…
Rosalia has always had 3 children, 20 years of age, one abortion, and the moon was shining…
Pregnant, Rosalia lives under a bridge.
I can see Rosalia. Rosalia is lucky to live in an organized world!…
Rosalia fills forms to ask for a little house.
Rosalia stands in line in the Ministry of Public Health, lines lasting 5 hours, with a pissed child in her arms.
– The President says: “ no citizens…, etc.”
Rosalia lives in an organized world…
There is a Constitution, Human Rights, Prostitution, the Church.
But, if Rosalia doesn’t have enough to eat a biscuit, how can she understand the palpitations of a refrigerator or to soak in milk an automobile, lying in a sofa, to switch-on a record-player?
And this is civilization, now that Rosalia cannot squeeze, at 5 o’clock, a jazz in tea?
Rosalia has to live in an organized world!
We have already gone to the moon: “I’ll drop you a letter from the moon, love!”
Potatoes in photosynthesis, carnations in photosynthesis, Roses in photosynthesis.
Through a chemical orchard the insects will fly.
But Rosalia has 7 children in midst of civilization, a metaphysical civilization that cannot solve Rosalia’s problem…
How many years is it that Rosalia has been going with her children from dung to dung, from Constitution to Constitution, from God to God!
Rosalia is 27 years old, 100 years, 27,00 years old.
Rosalia has dung in her dreams, Rosalia dreams about dung,
But dung is not herself.
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