Murder in Omicron Street
I killed him. I avenged all those months of invisibility. Of being an everyday man. Of going to work a day just like today, of being shaved and having my hair cut and organized, with a flawless face, of wearing with false pride my blue trouser clean and ironed and shiny black shoes similar to a rain puddle created on my feet … o and must never forget my photo check with my 20 years towering over me and the face of a madman who the everyday machine forgot to gave its minimum wage salary.
I avenged having to open the door and go down the iron stairs at 7:30 am, going down in a spiral, from Monday to Friday, and always being careful to avoid tripping. I have avenged having to board the everyday bus, reading the everyday gazette, watching the everyday news at 6:00 am and waking up to the everyday rooster that is the same as a clock on the roof.
I killed him with the everyday knife, the same one he used to slice the everyday bread and smear it with everyday butter.
¡In my hands he bleeds, the everyday man! The epilepsy, the agony, the blood going down his mouth, the eyes that aren’t eyes, the face that is far from being face.
¡I finally killed him, I am sure of it!
I’m tired of seeing his face, to see the motionless remains, the uncertainty of death and crime. I opted to wrap him in old newspaper, wrapping the cadaver in everyday news, wrapping his torso with the yesterday suicide in a hotel lost in the morning fog of Lima, wrapping his extremities with police abuse and corruption in the ministries and the fucking capitalist system, wrapping his back with the economic statics and political polls, re-wrap it with social injustice, with the retired who die waiting in line, the sick and children who the only thing they have in life is a rare disease called neglect, the judges who become rich and the clergy who prostitute paradise. The good ones are few and fit in my tiny flat, with room to spare.
After what it seems to be a eternity, I finally finish wrapping his body as a statue of newspaper, as a work of art of what you read before going to work or what you see at night before going to bed, everything wrapped up, each of his hairs, nails, the tattoo on his shoulder, the scar on the knee, its foots and even the roads he has walked upon. Then the body disappears into a large black plastic bag. I gave it to the clouds in exchange for one day dedicated only to myself …
I killed him, yes
¡I’ve killed him!
¡I’ve killed him!
The everyday knife has stopped being an everyday thing. Now he is on the table dancing the tango …
Dances Tango the mother fucker.
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