martes, 15 de julio de 2014

The Teacher & The Bull





"It is in captivity — ringed, haltered, chained to a drag. The bull is godlike".
William Carlos Williams

Let me tell You, in a very short story, why I write.
I took my four-days-ago-nine-year-old-son
to my Poetry class. Yesterday.

He makes his best to know who the hell “Paquirri” was
among other complicated things about The Bulls.

-The Bulls
you know,
are complicated animals-.

My son made it through the whole class.

At the end of it my teacher asked:
-“Aryam, Could you get the readings?”
I said: -“Yes”. And also thanked him.
-“Is that your son?” and my son gave a nice handshake to him while pronouncing all his heir by the syllables of his three elegant Egyptian names.

-For the sake of the Story
I’m gonna have the rest deleted
for more than three witnesses.-

I just realized two things which
I consider fundamental now:

You never said my name out loud.
(Do you know my last name?)
Never mind.


Anyway, you never did.