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—Pero hijo, tentá, tentá...<br />

Le hundía los <strong>de</strong>dos huesudos en la piel<br />

suave, que se escurría rugo sa.<br />

—Tres le doy, compa.<br />

—¡Achís!...<br />

A lo lejos se oyó un disparo. Luego otro.<br />

El silencio <strong>de</strong>l mediodía se <strong>de</strong>sgarraba,<br />

como una película <strong>de</strong> coágulo<br />

sobre un estanque; poco a poco las<br />

<strong>de</strong>sgarraduras iban cerrándose, hasta<br />

que la cerrazón <strong>de</strong> calma reco braba su<br />

pesantez.<br />

—Esos han <strong>de</strong> ser Mateyo y Julián.<br />

—O Fila<strong>de</strong>lfo, que agarró dése lado.<br />

—Palomas han <strong>de</strong>star matando, los<br />

babosos.<br />

—No creya, compa: en esa montañita<br />

hay mucho conejo.<br />

Náufrago, en el viento perezón, llegó un<br />

grito.<br />

—¡Aíjaaa!...<br />

Luego palabras, con las letras borradas.<br />

—¿Qué dice, oyó?<br />

—Es Mateyo.<br />

160<br />

“But son, touch him, touch him, he’s<br />

worth it...”<br />

He sank his bony fingers in the rabbit’s<br />

soft fur causing the skin to wrinkle.<br />

“I’ll give you three.”<br />

“No way!”<br />

They heard a shot in the distance. Then<br />

another. The silence of the midday,<br />

like a film of coagulated blood over a<br />

pond, was being torn. Little by little<br />

the lacerations healed until the closing<br />

calm recovered its heaviness.<br />

“That must be Mateo and Julian.”<br />

“Or Fila<strong>de</strong>lfo who went that way.”<br />

“They must be hunting doves,<br />

suckers!”<br />

“Maybe not, compadre. There’s lots of<br />

rabbits in them little hill.”<br />

A scream came, lost in the lazy wind.<br />

“Ai-haaa”<br />

Then some words followed with erased<br />

letters.<br />

“What was that?”<br />

“It’s Mateo.”

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