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Sunday, January 13, 2019
ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH: DIALOGUE OF TWO OLDER MEN IN URUGUAY.
ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH: DIALOGUE OF TWO OLDER MEN IN URUGUAY.
ANOTHER RAIN DAY IN THE STOP OF MALDONADO HOSPITAL.
URUGUAYAN TRIBUTE TO OUR LOVED OLDER MEN.
It was shift day with the Diabetologist. He is the only doctor who does not fail to consult. It would be because he had studied in Cuba and there he was taught how to be a good professional but he was expelled from the faculty or he was imprisoned for several years.
At the bus stop while I was waiting for the bus, my old friend suddenly arrived, the tall, tall man with a prominent nose - Andalusian descent or from another city in Spain - under a torrential rain. We were like frogs and zappers coming out of their hiding place in the middle of summer, confused by the change of climate.
-Good afternoon, I say ... Good morning, Lord. This rain has us all tired. Not a ray of sun. Ostia! What we have done wrong to receive this.-commented the old man.
-Less bad that I do not see the weather report on television. They say that there is going to be a radiant sun and a subtropical cyclone that floods everything and destroys the houses of the poor. Or they announce rainy days, not a day, but several weeks of rain and then the sun comes that could even go to the beaches. As simple as that.-But some success do, sometimes ...
-It is that I almost do not have TV. My aunt Florencia the deceased that God has her in Glory, from Montevideo, gave me one in black and white with a screen of about 6 inches. Old model When it rains it sounds like a cricket and starts throwing sparks everywhere, like Christmas with fireworks and all that.
-I have a wide-screen HD that my granddaughter gave me and I see even soccer games ... -he made a transition- I think I know you.
-Yes. You are not the patient of chest wounds. And how are they going?
-But in this hospital you can not keep secrets. Only the doctors and nurses knew ... Although to tell the truth, your accent when speaking I know it from somewhere. Where are you from?
-From Jatibonico, Dominican Republic.
- And where is that, I say, if you can know?
-It is an island attached to Venezuela. And hear, here among us, there is a hunger of hell as in our neighbor Venezuela, that when there is no lack of rice the toilet paper is missing ... - and I added - Have you not placed worms in the wounds of the chest, look at Northern countries is the last thing to treat infected wounds like yours ...?
-You're loading me, sir. It is loading me. Who said my wounds are infected?
-Good. With so much time unattended and going to the Intendance every day ...
- And what do you care about my wounds or ostia, if they are infected or something like that! Maybe you are a doctor, by chance-he looked me up and down-no, you do not look like a doctor or nurse, nor does he know anything about medicine, that's for specialists ...
The old man had a nylon cape that sheltered him from the rain almost to his feet. More than a tent for the rain it looked like an old circus like that of "Circo Beat" by Fito Paez. I wore a simple shirt - this time I had put on a pair of trousers - you know, visiting a doctor in Bermuda is not appropriate for our age, etc., etc.
- Do not you remember me? - I asked sweetly.
-Do not. It's the first time that I see you. Pleasure. Ernestilico is my name because the deceased of my older brother was named Ernestino. Well, to differentiate us you know ...
- Yes- I said in a joke - it would not be that instead of burying his brother they buried you alive ... ha ha ha.
I have noticed that Uruguayans do not have to mention the subject of death or in jest. They have panic ..
.- And changing the subject - I said - that layer to shelter from the rain to Where did he buy it? I mean, to get one also because these days ..
.-This layer was bought by my late wife Esmeregilda there in Piriapolis in a liquidation a few years ago.
-But how old are you as a widower? They must be like 50 years because the layer more than the rain shelter looks like that of an old circus, of those that had before, because of the old and holes that it is.
-You're charging me sir! I do not see that this raincoat is bought for me by the deceased ..
.- By chance it would not be in Piriapolis in a liquidation?
-And how do you know? If I had not told you about it, it's a memory of my deceased deceased ...
-Smeregilda?
-Who told you her name? Yes, she is in heaven.
- This is my old man, we all come to this world just for a little while. But do not worry, with your infected wounds will soon meet ...
- With Esmerigilda?
-The deceased ...
He interrupted me.I was going saing:
-Yes. I think. But have faith and hope that only a few weeks remain.
-Do not tell me about the deceased woman like that, or that death is around me! Lightning with you. You do not respect my 80 years.
-It seems that all your relatives were "tuned" at death ...
ANOTHER RAIN DAY IN THE STOP OF MALDONADO HOSPITAL.
URUGUAYAN TRIBUTE TO OUR LOVED OLDER MEN.
It was shift day with the Diabetologist. He is the only doctor who does not fail to consult. It would be because he had studied in Cuba and there he was taught how to be a good professional but he was expelled from the faculty or he was imprisoned for several years.
At the bus stop while I was waiting for the bus, my old friend suddenly arrived, the tall, tall man with a prominent nose - Andalusian descent or from another city in Spain - under a torrential rain. We were like frogs and zappers coming out of their hiding place in the middle of summer, confused by the change of climate.
-Good afternoon, I say ... Good morning, Lord. This rain has us all tired. Not a ray of sun. Ostia! What we have done wrong to receive this.-commented the old man.
-Less bad that I do not see the weather report on television. They say that there is going to be a radiant sun and a subtropical cyclone that floods everything and destroys the houses of the poor. Or they announce rainy days, not a day, but several weeks of rain and then the sun comes that could even go to the beaches. As simple as that.-But some success do, sometimes ...
-It is that I almost do not have TV. My aunt Florencia the deceased that God has her in Glory, from Montevideo, gave me one in black and white with a screen of about 6 inches. Old model When it rains it sounds like a cricket and starts throwing sparks everywhere, like Christmas with fireworks and all that.
-I have a wide-screen HD that my granddaughter gave me and I see even soccer games ... -he made a transition- I think I know you.
-Yes. You are not the patient of chest wounds. And how are they going?
-But in this hospital you can not keep secrets. Only the doctors and nurses knew ... Although to tell the truth, your accent when speaking I know it from somewhere. Where are you from?
-From Jatibonico, Dominican Republic.
- And where is that, I say, if you can know?
-It is an island attached to Venezuela. And hear, here among us, there is a hunger of hell as in our neighbor Venezuela, that when there is no lack of rice the toilet paper is missing ... - and I added - Have you not placed worms in the wounds of the chest, look at Northern countries is the last thing to treat infected wounds like yours ...?
-You're loading me, sir. It is loading me. Who said my wounds are infected?
-Good. With so much time unattended and going to the Intendance every day ...
- And what do you care about my wounds or ostia, if they are infected or something like that! Maybe you are a doctor, by chance-he looked me up and down-no, you do not look like a doctor or nurse, nor does he know anything about medicine, that's for specialists ...
The old man had a nylon cape that sheltered him from the rain almost to his feet. More than a tent for the rain it looked like an old circus like that of "Circo Beat" by Fito Paez. I wore a simple shirt - this time I had put on a pair of trousers - you know, visiting a doctor in Bermuda is not appropriate for our age, etc., etc.
- Do not you remember me? - I asked sweetly.
-Do not. It's the first time that I see you. Pleasure. Ernestilico is my name because the deceased of my older brother was named Ernestino. Well, to differentiate us you know ...
- Yes- I said in a joke - it would not be that instead of burying his brother they buried you alive ... ha ha ha.
I have noticed that Uruguayans do not have to mention the subject of death or in jest. They have panic ..
.- And changing the subject - I said - that layer to shelter from the rain to Where did he buy it? I mean, to get one also because these days ..
.-This layer was bought by my late wife Esmeregilda there in Piriapolis in a liquidation a few years ago.
-But how old are you as a widower? They must be like 50 years because the layer more than the rain shelter looks like that of an old circus, of those that had before, because of the old and holes that it is.
-You're charging me sir! I do not see that this raincoat is bought for me by the deceased ..
.- By chance it would not be in Piriapolis in a liquidation?
-And how do you know? If I had not told you about it, it's a memory of my deceased deceased ...
-Smeregilda?
-Who told you her name? Yes, she is in heaven.
- This is my old man, we all come to this world just for a little while. But do not worry, with your infected wounds will soon meet ...
- With Esmerigilda?
-The deceased ...
He interrupted me.I was going saing:
-Yes. I think. But have faith and hope that only a few weeks remain.
-Do not tell me about the deceased woman like that, or that death is around me! Lightning with you. You do not respect my 80 years.
-It seems that all your relatives were "tuned" at death ...
-You're loading me. Look, I call the cop and I denounce you for disrespect to an old man of the third age ...
- I am also of the third age. If I am 78 years old ...-He looked at me closely and whispered:- Plastic Surgery will not be done as it is today, to take off your age and look like a kid.
-But Ernestilico ...
- Perhaps I have told you my name? That gave birth!
-If I'm poor like you. Note that the Municipality has given me a piece of land there in the boundaries of Nuevo Maldonado in the middle of a swamp to build a small house ...
- What intendency or Intendance! If that institution gives nothing to the poor ...
-But with a little help. Ahem…. Everything is resolved under the table.
- And as for the material for the construction? Do not tell me that the Intendancy also gave it to you.
-Look. Ernestic...
-Ernestilico, do not forget it.
-Good. Ernestilic. Over there they are building a very large barn. I do not know what it is for. I think it is to store the salary papers of the numerous army of officials and users that accumulate years after years in the Municipality and the BPS. I've already got a lot of blocks and bags from Portland like cement, every rainy day, when there are no guards, I'm taking something ...
-Come here, Lord, and how much material has he stolen from the Intendancy?
-Three bricks and 4 blocks ...
- Fuck! You are loading me That way you will never build yours house nor when the Colorados return to power ...
-Let me clarify that I already have 25 years of living here. I have voted twice in the elections but in the next ones, I do not know, if I decide for the yellow Front, the Colorado and the Whites ... Yes, so I do not forget so many colors to choose ... But that gives me hope , Ernestico ...
- Do not tell me more Ernestico! My name is Ernestilico.
-Ernestilico! You had known me before, because I do not remember ... Nice to meet you. I'm glad to meet new people. .. Ehhh ... - I said, because senile dementia had gone up
.- Go with your fucking mother ...! What gave birth! Fuck!
And then his bus came, he got up without saying goodbye and he rose very high, very high until disappearing in the cloudy and rainy sky.
- It will be that now he is another deceased, because of me!
I do not tell you gentlemen, that everything happens to me because I am nice and polite to people, especially to the elderly.By the way, in a month I'm doing my well-deserved 78 years.
How well I cheat you! How well I cheat you!
Orlando Vicente Álvarez
https://www.amazon.com/Memorias-niño-guantanamero-Guantanamero-Spanish/dp/1520725884
Orlando Vicente Álvarez
https://www.amazon.com/Memorias-niño-guantanamero-Guantanamero-Spanish/dp/1520725884
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
ACERCA DE LA VIDA Y MUERTE: DIÁLOGO DE DOS ANCIANOS EN URUGUAY
ACERCA DE LA VIDA Y MUERTE: DIALOGO DE DOS ANCIANOS EN URUGUAY.
OTRO DIA DE LLUVIA EN LA PARADA DEL HOSPITAL
DE MALDONADO. URUGUAY
Un homenaje a nuestros queridos viejos.
Era día de turno con el Diabetólogo. Es el
único médico que no falla a la consulta. Será que porque había estudiado en Cuba
y allá sí le enseñaron como ser un buen profesional sino lo expulsaban de la
facultad o iba preso por varios años.
En la parada mientras esperaba el bus llegó de
repente mi viejo amigo el anciano alto y espigado de nariz prominente- ascendencia
andaluza o de otra ciudad de España- bajo una torrencial lluvia. Estábamos como
ranas y zapos saliendo de su escondrijo en pleno verano, confundidos por el
cambio de clima.
-Buenas tardes, digo… Buenos días Señor. Esta
lluvia nos tiene cansados a todos. Ni un rayo de sol. ¡Ostia! Que hemos hecho
de malo para recibir esto.-comentó el anciano.
-Menos mal que no veo el parte meteorológico por la televisión.
Dicen que va a haber un sol radiante y
viene un ciclón subtropical que inunda todo y destruye las casas de los pobres. O anuncian días de
lluvias, no un día, sino varias semanas
de lluvia y entonces viene el sol
que hasta podría ir a las playas. Así de sencillo.-respondí yo.
-Pero algún acierto hacen, a veces…
-Es que yo casi no tengo TV. Mi tía Florencia
la fallecida que Dios la tenga en la Gloria, de Montevideo, me regaló uno en
blanco y negro con una pantalla de como 6 pulgadas. Modelo antiguo. Cuando
llueve le sale un sonido como de grillos y empieza a lanzar chispas por todos lados, como
Navidades con fuegos artificiales y todo eso.
-Yo tengo un HD de pantalla ancha que me
regaló una nieta mía y veo hasta los partidos de futbol…-hizo una
transición- Me parece que yo lo conozco
a usted.
-Sí. Usted no es el paciente de las
heridas en el pecho. ¿Y Cómo van ya?
-Pero en este hospital no se puede guardar
secretos. Solo lo sabían los médicos y enfermeras… Aunque para decir verdad, su
acento al hablar yo lo conozco de alguna parte. ¿De dónde es usted?
-De Jatibonico, República Dominicana.
- ¿Y donde queda eso, digo, si se puede
saber?
-Es una isla pegada a Venezuela. Y oiga, aquí
entre nosotros, hay un hambre de ampanga. Por lo menos allá todos somos iguales-el hambre nos toca a todos, menos al consejo de Estado, como en nuestra vecina Venezuela, que cuando no falta el arroz falta el papel higiénico.Solo para el Consejo de Estado, sus mansiones con piscinas y su ganado especial para consumir... -hice una transición y
agregué-¿No le han colocado gusanos en las heridas del pecho, mire que en
países del norte es lo último para tratar las heridas infectadas como las
suyas…?
-Me estás cargando señor. Me está
cargando. ¿Quién dijo que mis heridas están infectadas?
-Bueno. Con tanto tiempo sin atenderse y
acudiendo a la Intendencia todos los días…
- ¡Y usted qué le importan mis heridas ni
ostias, si están infectadas o cosa así! Acaso es médico, por casualidad-me miró
de arriba abajo- no, no tiene pinta de medico ni de enfermero, ni sabe nada de
medicina, eso es para los especialistas…
El anciano tenía una capa de nilón que lo
guarecía de la lluvia casi hasta los pies. Más que una carpa para la lluvia
parecía una de circo viejo como la de “Circo Beat” de Fito Paez. Yo con una simple remera- esta vez me había
puesto un pantalón- ya ustedes saben, visitar a un médico en bermuda no es
apropiado para nuestra edad, etc., etc.
-¿No se acuerda de mí?- le pregunté con
dulzura.
-No. Es la primera vez que lo veo. Mucho
gusto. Ernestilico es mi nombre porque al finado de mi hermano mayor le
nombraron Ernestino. Bueno, para diferenciarnos sabe…
-Si- dije yo en son de broma- no fuera a ser
que en vez de sepultar a su hermano lo sepultaran a usted vivo… ja ja ja.
Me he dado cuenta que a los uruguayos no hay
que mencionarle el tema de la muerte ni en broma. Le tienen pánico…
-Y cambiando de tema- dije yo- esa capa para
guarecerse de la lluvia a ¿Dónde la compró? Digo, para obtener una también
porque estos días…
-Esta capa
me la compró mi finada esposa Esmeregilda allá en Piriapolis en una
liquidación hace ya unos cuantos años.
-Pero ¿Cuántos años tiene de viudo? Deben ser
como 50 años porque la capa más que guarecer de la lluvia parece la de un circo
viejo, de esos que habían antes, por lo vieja y agujereada que está…
-¡Me estás cargando señor! No ve que este
impermeable me lo compro la finada…
-¿Por casualidad no sería en Piriapolis en una
liquidación?
-¿Y cómo vos lo sabe? SI no le había hablado
de eso, es un recuerdo de mi difunta finada…
-¿Esmeregilda?
-¿Quién le dijo su nombre? Sí, que está en el
cielo.
- Así es mi viejo, todos venimos a este mundo
solo por un rato. Pero no se preocupe, con sus heridas infectadas pronto se
reunirá…
-¿Con
Esmerigilda? La finada… -me interrumpió.
-Sí. Eso creo. Pero tenga fe y esperanza que solo unas semanas le
quedan…
-¡Qué no me hable de la finada así, ni que la
muerte me ronda! Al rayo con usted. No respeta mis 80 años.
-Parece que todos sus familiares estaban
“afinados” al morir…
-Me estás cargando. Mira que llamo a la
policía y lo denuncio por irrespeto a un anciano de la tercera edad…
-Yo también soy de la tercera edad. Si tengo
78 años…
Me
miró detenidamente y me musitó:
-No se habrá hecho Cirugía Plástica como se
estila hoy día, para quitarse la edad y parecer como un pibe.
-Pero Ernestilico…
- Acaso yo le he dicho mi nombre. ¡Que lo
parió!
-Si yo soy pobre como usted. Fíjese que la
Intendencia me ha entregado un terreno allá en los linderos de Nuevo Maldonado
en medio de un pantano para que construya una pequeña vivienda…
-¡Qué intendencia ni Intendencia! Si esa Institución no da nada a los pobres…
-Pero con una pequeña ayudita. Ejem…. Por
debajo de la mesa se resuelve todo.
-¿Y en cuanto al material para la
construcción? No me digas que también se lo dio la Intendencia.
-Mire. Ernestico...
-Ernestilico, que no se le olvide.
-Bueno. Ernestilico. Por allá están
construyendo un galpón muy grande. No sé para qué es. Yo pienso que es para
almacenar los papeles de los salarios del numeroso ejercito de funcionarios y de los usurios que se acumulan años tras años en la Intendencia y el BPS. Ya he conseguido un montón de bloques y bolsitas de Portland como
cemento, todos los días de lluvia, en que no hay vigilantes, me llevo algo…
-Venga acá Señor y ¿Cuánto material ha robado a la Intendencia?
-Tres ladrillos y 4 bloques…
- ¡Joder! Me estas cargando. Así nunca construirá su
vivienda ni cuando los Colorados vuelvan al poder…
-Dejeme aclararle que ya yo tengo 25 años de vivir aquí. He votado dos veces en las elecciones pero en las próximas, no sé, si me decido por el Frente Amarillo, el Colorado o el Blanco... Sí, así no se me olvidan tantos colores donde elegir... Soy un poco Daltónico y que escojo a cualquier color. Pero nunca pierdo la esperanza, Ernestico…
-Dejeme aclararle que ya yo tengo 25 años de vivir aquí. He votado dos veces en las elecciones pero en las próximas, no sé, si me decido por el Frente Amarillo, el Colorado o el Blanco... Sí, así no se me olvidan tantos colores donde elegir... Soy un poco Daltónico y que escojo a cualquier color. Pero nunca pierdo la esperanza, Ernestico…
-¡Qué no me diga más Ernestico! Mi nombre es
Ernestilico.
-¡Ernestilico! Me había conocido de antes,
pues yo no lo recuerdo…Mucho gusto. Me alegra conocer personas nuevas. .. Ehhh…
- dije yo, pues la demencia senil se me había subido.
- ¡Vete con tu puta madre…! ¡Qué te parió! ¡Joder!
Y entonces vino su bus, se puso de pie sin despedirse y se elevó muy
alto, muy alto hasta desaparecer en el cielo nublado y lluvioso.
-¡Será que ahora es otro finado, por mi
culpa!
No les digo caballeros, que a mí me pasan
cada cosa por ser simpático y educado con las gentes sobre todo con los
ancianos.
A propósito, dentro de un mes cumplo mis merecidos 78 años.
¡Qué bien los engaño! ¡Qué bien los engaño!
¡Qué bien los engaño! ¡Qué bien los engaño!
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