GIGOLO
The orchestra broke with a tango. On the evening of changing light and color foci couples clasped in the embrace rhythmic act on the promise of endless and cried with the bandoneon. Along with Raul in the table, ripe and flabby hand, a bejeweled and manicured hand perhaps excessively, slid morosely on his pants, finally indtroducir something in his pocket. Raul felt pressure roll against his leg. Should be about twenty thousand, he thought. Magdalena was increasingly generous. He was short.
started to dance, and as guided by the worn track painfully seventy kilos well supplied with meat, wrinkles, silks and perfumes, feeling in his neck broken and alcoholic breath of his companion, he thought of his weekend house in the geraniums planted last Sunday, before taking the bus that would take him downtown to the routine, mindless grind every night.
His partner now watered gently, sighing and asking him to agree to accompany her to not-know-where, for fun not-know-how, as he did not-know-when to not-know-who, entia and is now very lonely, and other things, and if he felt old, and that if not for his money he would not be at his side now, and that all men are equal, and so on Raul style which was already used, and down her ears as the winter rain on a roof without cats. He, meanwhile, had his eye on a tourist sitting on a panel door, passenger assured his bald, with a drink in his hand that moved emotionally that only Latinos are true lovers, and that she indeed like right now ... spoke in spurts, and her voice came at times sharply, sometimes faded among the strains of "Old Right."
The clock turned his arrows several times indifferent. At four, after the show had to go. Magdalena accompanied his department. The left dressed in bed, drunk, fast asleep. On tiptoe went the door. Overcoat with the collar raised, shivering, with tense and sour stomach, he walked the eight blocks that separated him from the dairy where he "kept his uniform." Galician greeted him distracted and claimed payment of the week. Roll out two five hundred bills and put them on the counter. Then in the background cuertito Swaco tuxedo and hung on a hanger. Took over Saddle blue overalls and put it on. Next to him was the case with cold dinner that Laura, his wife prepared for him every evening, before beginning their journey to work. Avidly chewed sandwiches and drank milk. Laura was a great woman, the seven came home. Laura was getting up to make breakfast for the kids, who would leave for college soon. He kissed her, and while he took off his overalls and shoes to take a shower, he thought that every day made it more painful to earn a living.
***************************** (for "Everyone, Every Which ...") 30 - 8-1969
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