///
Abuelo, Answers and Questions
Maurice Kilwein Guevara……………………………………………….1.
Abuelo, why are there flies?
They're reporters for the dead, mi joven bestia.
What do they report?
If the millionarios won or lost.……………………………………………….2.
Abuelo?
What?
I forgot.……………………………………………….3.
Abuelo, who puts the scorpion in my bed when I'm asleep?
Why, is it there when you wake?
Yes.
Dead?
Yes.
Don't worry, the dead don't sting.……………………………………………….4.
Abuelo?
What?
How old am I?
Almost five years old.
How old are you?
Old as bones. When the moon was born,
I was already eight years old. . . .
When I was a boy, I lived on the coast of Colombia
and rode the fins of blue whales at night
from Barranquilla to Nantucket Island
and back, before dawn.……………………………………………….5.
Abuelo, why do I have steel hooves?
To kick truth in the ass.
Abuelo, why do I have shiny hooves?
To dance a little cumbia. To play with mirrors.
Abuelo, why do I have hooves?
Because they run in the family.
.
