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y amenazador. En un <strong>de</strong>scruce,<br />

relampaguearon los ojos <strong>de</strong> brasa <strong>de</strong><br />

un chucho, que se aculaba aterrorizado.<br />

Como diablos negros iban bailando<br />

los troncos, <strong>de</strong>trás <strong>de</strong>l cerco. Por fin<br />

llegaron a las tapias <strong>de</strong>l pantión. Otro<br />

farol esperaba en la puerta.<br />

—¿Qué jue que les cogió la noche,<br />

hombré?<br />

—Cabsa la Tana... 179<br />

—¡A la gran babosa! Ya mero nos<br />

íbamos: hemos óido ruidos en los<br />

mucsoleyos.<br />

—¿Eeee?...<br />

Entraron. A la luz ladrante <strong>de</strong> los faroles,<br />

las tumbas tendían sábanas repentinas,<br />

algunas <strong>de</strong> ellas <strong>de</strong>sgarradas o sucias.<br />

Bajo el pino gran<strong>de</strong>, estaba el hoyo <strong>de</strong><br />

ño Justo. Lo jueron bajando con lazos.<br />

El cajón crujía, lastimero. Los faroles,<br />

bajeros, alumbraban un mundo <strong>de</strong><br />

pies curiosos, al bor<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong>l hoyo. Topó.<br />

Sacaron los lazos a choyones. Después,<br />

la pala implacable empezó a tirar tierra.<br />

Cáiba la tierra negra, con sordo aporreo.<br />

La pala chasqueaba la lengua, al coger;<br />

y el hoyo oblongo eructaba al recibir.<br />

Los pies se habían ido saliendo <strong>de</strong> la<br />

luz, como cusucos asustados.<br />

179. Por culpa <strong>de</strong> Tana. “cabsa” es “causa”.<br />

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in purgatory. Out of the middle of the<br />

light, once in a while a pallbearer would<br />

kick a rock causing it to jump ahead<br />

of the people with its muzzle open,<br />

threatening. At a crossing, the emberlike<br />

eyes of a terrified dog flashed like<br />

lightning. The tree trunks behind the<br />

fence were dancing like black <strong>de</strong>vils.<br />

The procession finally arrived at the<br />

mud-wall of the cemetery. Another<br />

lantern awaited at the gate.<br />

“Why are you so late?”<br />

“It’s Tana’s fault…”<br />

“Holy shit! We were about to leave<br />

because we heard noises in the<br />

mausoleums.”<br />

“What? Were you scared?”<br />

The procession entered the cemetery.<br />

The barking light of the lanterns<br />

bathed the tombs making them look<br />

like blankets, some of them torn and<br />

dirty.<br />

The recently dug grave of Señor<br />

Justo was un<strong>de</strong>r the big pine tree.<br />

They lowered his casket down with<br />

ropes. The coffin creaked, pitifully. The<br />

lowered lanterns lit the world of the<br />

feet of the curious bor<strong>de</strong>ring the hole.<br />

It bottomed. They pulled back the ropes<br />

yanking them from around the coffin.<br />

Then, the implacable shovel filled the<br />

grave with dirt. The black soil fell with<br />

a muted thud. The shovel clicked its

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