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14 Jan 2010 




08/12/09



“Crazy
Christian”



 



         I woke up late in the morning and
glanced at the bottom of the superior bunk bad. I had being awaken by my
brothers as they left fedless, carrying heavy jackets and a acoustic guitar.



         I stared without any sort of enthusiasm
to my thick bike jacket and my thin cotton pants made on the floor. Mixed with
old water bottles and dirty clothes they make a huge black bump on the floor.



         Damn...The thought of another freezing
night made me shiver. I wished it would not rain.



         Still on my pajamas I opened the
refrigerator door in search of any sort of food.



         Came back from the toilet and put a
movie on the VCR. I had seen that tape lots of times… Turned it off. The
Landlady with her son had already left, along with her my brothers and the old
biker who lived in a cubicle. I enjoyed being alone. However that wasn’t one of
these moments. I wished to be with someone interesting and pleasant.



         The window was nebulous and covered
with tiny drops of water. Pulling out all the humidity of the warm room. I
opened it. I skewed in the parapet taking a heavy blow of cold Wind with a
light shirt. A thin rain along with it. That displeased me a great deal. I
thought about my frozen balls on a stiff wet bench, my numb fingers and my helmet’s
blurred windshield.



         I looked to the horizon and started click
the tip of my tongue against my
roof of the mouth. He came
in running like some circus dog. Small sized and white with most of his back
covered in black, he was a beautiful cat. He had grown closer to me one day
when I caught him sleeping on my bike’s bench and tossed him some salami
slices.



         I fed him. I had trained him. I had
re-baptized him. Ignorant of his gender I had given him a male name: “Crazy
Christian”. My trained cat from London’s streets.



         Due to his small size, I had already
seen him get beaten by some half-wild cats. I was annoyed by that fact. Even
thought sometimes I tried throwing any sort of object I may have on such
occasion against the aggressor. Perhaps I had cursed him when giving such name…



         He had being trained to climb at my
window and walk around purring freely inside my room sticking his claws in the
carpet and at the parapet’s soft wood causing minor scratches on the
paint. 



         Meanwhile I would cuddle him and throw
any sort of food I could find in the fridge.



         At
some point in the past He had belonged to a man from the neighborhood. Whenever
I bumped into such man I’d call the cat and watch him do his trick, irritating
deeply the previous owner.



         A small and frail looking lady saw me
playing with the cat and smiled.



         She was standing still in the porch’s
door and made me a revealing observation:



         “Oh, she really likes you.”



         “Who?” I asked intencionally



         “Lilly, the kitten.”



         “Oh...”-I answered – “I thought it was
a male...and gave it another name…”-I included accidentally slipping a small
inferiority complex into the conversation.



         “Which is?”



         “Crazy Christian.”



         “Crazy Christian?”



         “Yeah…Hemingway’s cat.”



         “Oh, Ernest Hemingway?”-She laughed
kindly.



         “hehehehehe”



         “Are you a student?”.  Aparently she ignored both my brothers
existence.



         “Yes, but I also work.” I said pointing
my finger to my bike parked behind her. I felt ashamed for having done so, for
I knew the general opinion about the inconvenience my bike had caused to the
building.



         She turned her head to the bike and
back to me laughing with with beautiful blue eyes with no resent whatsoever.



         A strong wind shook her umbrella with
violence. She looked as if she could be carried out away at any moment. The
rain started dropping slowly soaking her thick Tactel jacket, her flannel brown
skirt and her gray wool socks that crawled up from her sneakers until her knees.



         She smurcked at me, a little embaraced
while glancing from beneath her grizzly hair the rain that followed.



         “Crazy Christian”  jumped down the window looking for cover.



         That was the ending of our
conversation.



         We saluted.



 



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09 Jan 2010 




Gusev



 



"It was getting dark; it would soon be night"



As I read these worlds I immerged in
thought about all the nameless people we see every day.



All sorts of kinds bumping into each other
on sidewalks and ship’s bunks.



All the “Gusev’s” of our world. Brutal,
ignorant, gentle, alone and hopeful.



That’s what they are all right.



One time I saw two of them.



Walking down a street soaped from a thin rain
that had being falling all day long.



embraced together as one small shrunk embroiled
figure.



An old woman and a young boy.



Their big round dark eyes, their skinny
bony hands, their light clothing.



Rolled pass besides me without even
glancing at me nor at anybody.



I felt bad for them and wished them luck,
but I knew that they weren’t going to have any.



.



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09 Jan 2010 
In July 24th it will be exactly two years since we, my brother and I, left for Europe.
There were some constrution workers on our door and they were busting a hole in the street for the construction of a  Blvd.

We left at about 3 o clock. I didnt know how long it would take for me to see my family again, and that frightened me a bit.
My mother started crying wich made it all worst.
My father, my older brother and me got into the car and my Brother drove to SP We got there at about 7 pm and we went straight to a small hotel on the outskirts of the City.
Everything seemed silent and I realised that that was it.
We had being planning for this trip, moving most of all for a couple of years and my father would always scream with a laugher "2008". At that night nobody was laughing. However we werent sad, just uncertain.
We got in Lisbon and I felt at ease. As we went down from a cab through Marques do Pombal I kept on asking the driver, uselessly what did the local thugs looked like, and if anyone could spot them just by their appearence.
He gave a stupid and vague answer, as people often do when fell harressed or dont know wether they are being mocked.
Throught the next couple of days we spent our time looking at the Newspaper and trying to book ourselves a visit with a landlady.
We succeded and found ourselves a place in old Alfama a narrowed street full of light and cigarrette buds neighborhood.
It was great I apllied to the college and as we sat there waiting for an answer we would often go to the "Cinemateca" and see old movies for a buck and read some books on Herzog and other directors.
After a while we became friends with a girl from home who was maried with a nice fellow named Miguel I became good friends with theyr kid daughter Mariana a five year old dark haired and skinny half Portughese Half Italian-Brazilian girl.

After two months of Lisbon we decided to leave and try the shots at Bologna's University.
In the last two weeks in Lisbon I would often sit by the great river that bathes the city. My afternoons no longer were composed of readings by the window and movie scecions. I would walk around the small heavly used steps of the stairs around my neighborhood.



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09 Jan 2010 
Hey-o fellows from the Syberworld
Its old creed branton coming at you again.
Question: what kind of car do you like the better?
I like motocycles They,re small and dangerous.
Once I got into a car...
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08 Jan 2010 




25/12/09



 



 



Noite de natal.



 



 



                O mesmo ritual de todos os anos.
Alguns apareciam, outros não. Depois de algumas horas todos se separariam e
tudo voltaria a ser como antes.



                Mas para algumas pessoas na
verdade nada mudara. Talvez há muito tempo isso viesse acontecendo e ninguém
nunca notara.



                Eu precisava mijar.  Levantei-me. Desci os degraus pequenos da
área, ainda segurando meu copo. Deixei-o sobre um banco no quintal e caminhei
lentamente no escuro.



                Cheguei ao meu lugar, passei por
baixo dos galhos de uma jabuticabeira, e fiz meu papel em cima de uma telha
enorme recostada ao muro. Ela estava inclinada verticalmente e me passava em
altura. O som que a urina fazia ao escorrer pela telha empoeirada, até atingir
o chão, me agradava.



                Olhei para o alto e vi o céu
nublado e brilhante. A lua estava por perto, mas fora de meu alcance.



                Chequei um pedaço de pau que eu
havia apoiado há uns meses no muro e apertado sua ponta superior contra a
parede criando uma marca nos tijolos escuros e umedecidos.



                Não sei bem porque fiz aquilo
naquele dia. Talvez por que quisesse saber quanto tempo duraria ali, ou se
alguém, além de mim, passava por ali... Ninguém.



                Voltei lentamente sendo saudado
pelas vozes e risadas que escapavam da janela amarelada da cozinha. Imaginei se
eles poderiam me ver daquele ângulo. Não importava...



Virei a esquerda por
uma porta e passei por um muro divisor com a casa vizinha repleto de buracos,
ou pequenos ângulos fabricados com qualquer que fosse a intenção. Talvez
tivesse sido um lugar, onde nos tempos antigos as pessoas trocassem produtos e
gentilezas com os vizinhos. Porém hoje era um ângulo ignorado da casa.



                Notei alguma atividade na casa
vizinha e observei por alguns segundos uma velha senhora que esfregava um
vestido com grande dificuldade em um tanque.



                A noite continuara e eu escutara
muitos gritos e risos, no entanto, não pudera me esquecer daquela mulher. Sob o
forte calor das noites úmidas de verão ela passava sua noite de natal como se
fosse outra noite qualquer. Sozinha.



                Nas
poucas vezes que conversamos durante todos os anos ela me parecera ser uma
senhora muito simpática e gentil. Sempre tivera aquela aparência. Frágil,
dentes pequenos e brancos escondidos em um sorriso tímido, seus cabelos curtos
e brancos eram armados e encaracolados. Seus olhos pequenos e azuis. Suas mãos
descansavam uma em cima da outra enquanto ela ouvia algo. Ela compunha a imagem
de uma pessoa silenciosa e particular, mas nunca pensei que ela fosse uma
pessoa solitária.



                Lembro quando entrei em sua
casa, há muito tempo, com qualquer objetivo que uma criança teria. Passei
rapidamente por uma pequena sala com enormes bolas macias de pano penduradas
por uma linha terminando o desenho da cortina. Cortinas iguais a da casa de
minha avó.



                Entrei em seu quarto e saltei
por cima de sua cama, tentando não pisar na colcha, porém o fiz. Ainda assim
recebi o olhar carinhoso da senhora. Saltei para dentro de um pequeno beco que
estava ali simplesmente para que houvesse uma janela. A janela de seu quarto.
Uma parede suja na frente. Era isso que ela via todas as vezes que abria seu
quarto para que o dia entrasse.



                Um espaço entre os telhados e
uma fresta de céu. Uma calha improvisada, com uma panela grande cimentada no
topo e um cano que descia dela para dentro do pequeno beco escorrendo a água no
ralo escondido no canto do muro.



                Todo o ambiente era próprio para
a proliferação de muco e musgo. Era um canto frio e úmido e mal cheiroso, porém
me agradava estar ali.



                Ao longo dos anos perdi
completamente o contato com aquela senhora. No entanto, quando a vi na noite de
natal, vi que ela continuava do mesmo modo que era há 13 anos quando entrei em
sua casa.



                Senti vergonha, pois entendi que
nunca tinha visto quem ela realmente tinha sido.



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