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“El Crispín es mijo”... Sobre la cama<br />

<strong>de</strong>scansaba ya muerto el morigundo.<br />

Le habían cerrado los ojos con los<br />

<strong>de</strong>dos, y la boca con un pañuelo azul.<br />

Alre<strong>de</strong>dor <strong>de</strong> la cama empezaron las<br />

mujeres a verter rezos y lágrimas. Con<br />

ojos como botones, los hombres le<br />

miraban la boca traslapada. Nai<strong>de</strong> supo<br />

exactamente lo que allí pasó: un gritar<br />

<strong>de</strong>stemplado, un empujar, un “¡Jesús,<br />

Jesús!”, un crujir <strong>de</strong> cama, un puñal<br />

<strong>de</strong> cruz ensartado hasta el cacho en<br />

el corazón <strong>de</strong>l muerto. El muerto bía<br />

sido asesinado. Dijeron que Pedrón<br />

se había trasjuiciado. El Comisionado<br />

no lo arrestó: en primer lugar, porque<br />

el muerto yastaba dijunto cuando el<br />

asesinato; y en segundo, porque el<br />

autor <strong>de</strong>l sacrilegio taba loco.<br />

Para no <strong>de</strong>sangrar el cadábere <strong>de</strong>l<br />

finado, no le quisieron sacar el cuchillo;<br />

se fue al sepulcro como tapón <strong>de</strong> odio:<br />

ensamblado hasta el cacho, como<br />

crucita <strong>de</strong> maldición. Tierra prieta le<br />

cubrió amorosa; sobre el suelo se<br />

enterró la cruz grandota, la cruz <strong>de</strong><br />

bendición, con su “Descanse en Paz”.<br />

* * *<br />

El Crispín, el hijo <strong>de</strong>l muerto y <strong>de</strong> la<br />

muerta, andaba echado e la casa hacía<br />

tres días. Su propio llorar lo había<br />

llevado al bor<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong> la quebrada: allí<br />

silencioso, allí sombrío; allí, don<strong>de</strong><br />

lloraba el suelo. Sentado en el hojerío,<br />

<strong>de</strong>bajo <strong>de</strong> los charrales, se quería morir<br />

99<br />

“Crispin is my son…” On the bed,<br />

the moribund rested already <strong>de</strong>ad.<br />

They had closed his eyes and placed<br />

a blue handkerchief over his mouth.<br />

Around his bed women began to pour<br />

out prayers and tears. With eyes like<br />

buttons, the men stared at his covered<br />

mouth. Nobody knew exactly what<br />

happened then: a sharp scream, a<br />

shove, a “Jesus, Jesus!,” a creak of the<br />

bed, a cross-shaped dagger was buried<br />

all the way into the heart of the <strong>de</strong>ad<br />

man. The <strong>de</strong>ad man had been killed.<br />

They said that Big Pete had lost his<br />

mind. The Commissioner did not arrest<br />

him: in the first place, because the<br />

<strong>de</strong>ad man was already <strong>de</strong>ad when the<br />

assassination occurred; and second,<br />

because the perpetrator of the sacrilege<br />

was insane.<br />

So that the corpse would not bleed,<br />

no one wanted to take out the knife.<br />

The dagger went to the grave like a<br />

lid of hatred: all the way in like a cross<br />

of damnation. Black dirt covered him<br />

lovingly. On the ground they placed a<br />

big cross, the cross of blessing along<br />

with the words “Rest in Peace.<br />

* * *<br />

Crispín, now the son of a <strong>de</strong>ad man<br />

and of a <strong>de</strong>ad woman had been kicked<br />

out of his house for three days now. His<br />

own sob had taken him to the edge<br />

of the creek: it was quiet and gloomy.<br />

The ground cried there. Sitting on the

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