tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14579482795461148362024-03-08T01:50:42.220-08:00Crónicas de muertes dudosas Bruno Di Benedetto
Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-25390125021753597852014-06-08T07:44:00.002-07:002014-06-08T07:44:22.679-07:00Ferdinand Climent Sablier<div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
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sería capaz de auxiliar<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en su desgracia a estos
artífices.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">No es fácil convencerlos de
abandonar un arte que les proporciona<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sustento y ganancias…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">BERNARDINO RAMAZZINI<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Morbis artificum diátriba:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">De las enfermedades de los
joyeros relojeros, 1703<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">del Tiempo y decir qué grano
crecerá y cuál no,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">habladme, entonces, a mí, que
no solicito<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ni temo vuestros favores ni
vuestro odio.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de un relojero hijo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de un relojero<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ferdinand Climent Sablier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dejó Ginebra ya viejo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con su batallón de monóculos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y su escritorio de enebro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y sus doscientos relojes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mudos y muertos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Partió al exilio Ferdinand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">perseguido por el anatema<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la ignominia:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">no hay lugar en la pacífica Suiza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para un asesino de relojes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(Por las callejas de Patagones:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi - nand<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi - nand<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi – nand<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo siguen las voces de los muertos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de la rue Malagnue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">al lado de la iglesia rusa).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El infausto pasaje de noble artífice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a asesino serial de relojes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sucede una tarde<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de mil novecientos dieciocho<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras camina alegre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hacia su sesión semanal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en la casa de putas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">una simple piedra en el zapato<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el único disponible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">está ocupado por un anciano ciego<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y un joven que reconoce<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como su vecino de la Rue Malagnue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Hablan uno de esos idiomas ásperos del sur,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">así que no le preocupa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pasar por infidente mientras sacude<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Son muy parecidos –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se dice Ferdinand–.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de la vida, un puente sobre el océano del tiempo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y este, su primer pensamiento<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">fue su perdición.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sin darse cuenta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">vuelve sobre sus pasos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entra en su casa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">enciende el fuego<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que fue de su abuelo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y por primera vez se sienta a meditar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en la materia prima<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que ha dado de comer a su familia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por doscientos años o más:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Pero el tiempo es un océano?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Con sus mareas y sus oleajes?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Con su trópico de sargazo podrido?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Con su polución fosforescente?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Mentira, mentira </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–grita Ferdinand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras descorcha una botella de ajenjo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de antes de la prohibición:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el tiempo es limpio como una bisectriz<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">no tiene profundidad ni anchura<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ni tres mil dientes para desgarrar la carne<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"> </span><i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y ni brilla ni ahoga:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el tiempo sólo sabe pasar.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Pero entonces el tiempo es un río?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Con su margen y su cauce de barro?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Con su pez bigotudo?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Con su meandro de borracho?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Con su insistencia de cicatriz?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Blasfemia, blasfemia </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–aúlla Ferdinand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras bailotea alrededor de la vitrina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">donde esperan turno doscientos relojes–<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el tiempo es recto y tierno<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como un adolescente visitado por dios<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el tiempo no duda<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">según la inclinación del espacio<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ni moja los pies de la hierba inútil de las riberas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ni le importa quién baja dos veces al mismo río:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Heraclite, je t’emmerde </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–canta Ferdinand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con los compases de la Marsellesa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi - nand<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi - nand<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi - nand<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dicen doscientos relojes tartamudos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Con el oído afilado por el ajenjo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ferdinand Climent Sablier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se detiene a escuchar:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi - nand<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi - nand<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi - nand<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ah, me llaman </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dice Ferdinand–.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Veamos qué tienen para decir<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">estos hijitos bastardos del tiempo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Tambaleando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">va hasta la vitrina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la saquea al azar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pone sobre la mesa el reloj del alcalde<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(que acaba de componer)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">le quita la tapa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y por primera vez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las ruedecitas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y resortes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se le aparecen como son:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">una colmena de insectos dorados.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿No es terrible cómo picotean y picotean<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">algo tan silencioso y transparente<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como el paso del tiempo?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dice entre dientes Ferdinand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y sin aviso descarga terrible golpe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con el culo de la botella de cognac.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Coloca al lado de los restos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el reloj de arena de su bisabuelo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">símbolo de familia y profesión.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La arena cae como un río vertical.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Este reloj también miente –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">masculla Ferdinand–<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el tiempo no está hecho de semillas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y menos de arena<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿qué se puede cosechar de la siembra de estos
granos?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Un desierto?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Esto es para ustedes el tiempo?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿La demolición de una roca<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mezclada con bosta de camello?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Vuela el reloj de arena contra la vitrina.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ferdinand ve la explosión de cristal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en cámara lenta:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Es un regalo del tiempo </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–se dice–.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El tiempo me está regalando una flor.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi - nand<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi - nand<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi - nand<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dicen ciento noventa y nueve relojes–.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Ya voy </i>–dice Ferdinand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El resto salió en los diarios:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un relojero loco,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los bolsillos llenos de engranajes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lleva en la mano una gran flor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hecha de áncoras y carcazas de reloj.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Hace cerrar el prostíbulo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(mediante el pago de un décimo de su fortuna)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">le regala la flor de oro y bronce a la <i>madame<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se acuesta con todas las pupilas a la vez.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Decora pezones con resortes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">teje vello pubial con agujas diminutas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dibuja constelaciones de rubíes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre la espalda de una egipcia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y tiene, según testigos expertos y confiables,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el mejor orgasmo del cantón francés.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">II<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ferdinand Climent Sablier parte al destierro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en el primer barco que encuentra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En medio de la mar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pensando en la Patagonia:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">bestia plana y salvaje,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">desierto de año luz,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">alfanje de cien filos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y zona libre de relojes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Desde la borda, para su confusión,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo primero que ve<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">es la torre doble de Carmen de Patagones,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dos dedos impunes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en la garganta del cielo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y ese reloj insultando al tiempo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que es como insultar a dios.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero el buen dios no tiene tiempo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para ocuparse de Ferdinand y sus batallas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y allá anda Ferdinand a la mala<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">subiendo y bajando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las calles empedradas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y cada adoquín es como un segundo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que dice ferdi - nand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en los puntazos arteros de la artritis,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">siempre el ojo mecánico<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">allá arriba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sin perderle pisada<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dele cortajear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dele cortajear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tac<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">nand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y Ferdinand se duele<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">del tiempo cortado como salchichón<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y odia más que nunca esas agujas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">chorreantes de grasa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ferdinand casi no trabaja:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">subsiste de sus ahorros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y de la venta de cuadros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hechos de tripas de reloj.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El día lo lleva siempre lejos de las torres.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Le gusta ver a los enamorados<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">arrojar monedas y deseos al Río Negro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">desde el nuevo puente de hierro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Las monedas se hunden como relámpagos de bronce.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Los deseos flotan un poco más.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A veces una punta de ovejas cruza el puente:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi - naaaand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y Ferdinand las cuenta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por no sentir las horas, las duras pezuñas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero catorce años de aburrimiento digno<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">no bastan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para calmar una locura sagrada:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ferdinand se ha enamorado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(todos los relojes muertos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">le han resucitado en el pecho).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Tras el mostrador del correo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la viuda Angélica<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tocotoc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sella las cartas que Ferdinand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se envía a sí mismo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con poemas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para ella<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la del vestido de noche griega<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la de los ojos eternos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la de cabellos como río negro<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la de la carne blanca<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la sonrisa azul.<a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></i><span lang="ES-AR"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sufre de mala poesía, Ferdinand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero más sufre de amor:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Todos los días<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">toco<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">toc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">allá van las cartas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de nadie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para nadie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la viuda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tocotoc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las torres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">nand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">toc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">toco<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">nand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">así no hay corazón que aguante.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Es el tiempo o yo </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–se dice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y decide que el camino más corto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">al corazón de la viuda<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">atraviesa el corazón del tiempo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Matar el tiempo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para vivir ahora y siempre<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a la sombra de tus manos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">escribe en una tarjeta blanca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se va en busca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de la más grande y blasfema<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de las magnolias doradas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Es de noche y trepa Ferdinand<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con su asma<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y con su artritis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y con su martillo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y su destornillador.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Allá abajo Patagones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">moja sus luces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a la orilla de una cicatriz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Suspira Ferdinand y levanta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el martillo contra la esfera de cristal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">suenan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cinco campanas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y diez mil bronces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y todo le da en el alma:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tambalea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pierde pie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">flota en un mar de sargazos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">piensa extrañamente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en peces bigotudos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en camellos vadeando el Ródano<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en una reina negra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con suave vestido de luto blanco<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en diez mil putas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pariendo flores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en diez mil ovejas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">rumiando la papilla de los siglos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en diez mil adoquines disparados contra el cielo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en el cielo que se acaba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en el amor que explota<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en un quejido<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en la eternidad que,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ahora sabe,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dura exactamente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ferdi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">nand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="Smbolodenotaalpie"><span lang="ES-AR"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="Smbolodenotaalpie"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: Caslon540BT, serif;"> </span></span><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;"> Roberto Arlt, que la conoció en
1933, escribió acerca de Angélica: «…juro que sólo un ciego puede desear vivir
lejos del correo de Patagones, pues en él se encuentra empleada Venus Afrodita,
disfrazada de morocha. Cuanto viajero entra al correo de Patagones y mira la
tal empleada recibe como una descarga eléctrica y luego, cuando se repone, pide
cinco pesos en estampillas de medio centavo y contadas una por una por la
susodicha empleada».<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;"> Carlos Espinosa: <i>Crónicas de
la historia chica de Viedma y Carmen de Patagones</i>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;"> Edición del Autor, Carmen de
Patagones, 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-81505944911285455442014-06-08T07:42:00.004-07:002014-06-08T07:42:57.982-07:00Ana Paula Daumal<div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cerro Chaltén, Santa Cruz, 15
de enero de 1992</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Las condiciones del pájaro
solitario son cinco.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La primera, que se va a lo más
alto;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La segunda, que no sufre
compañía<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">aunque sea de su naturaleza;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La tercera, que pone el pico al
aire;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La cuarta, que no tiene
determinado color;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La quinta, que canta
suavemente.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">SAN JUAN DE LA CRUZ<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Dichos de luz y amor<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A mil trescientos metros de altura<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ana Paula Daumal cuelga apenas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de las cuerdas del viento.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Entre violines de espanto trepa Ana Paula,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los dedos de musgo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entrando en la pared sur del Chaltén.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sursum corda <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se repite Ana Paula<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y el viento dice que no, dice que no.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Con el corazón no alcanza, dice Ana Paula<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y clava los ojos en las grietas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y a la mirada le crecen músculos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">jadeos, sudor de luz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Allá abajo duermen todavía,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como en un nido de nieve,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tres italianos y un español.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Uno de ellos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–no sabe cuál–<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">le ha entrado en el cuerpo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hace apenas dos horas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En los muslos siente todavía<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los rastros de calor de esas manos desconocidas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y tan necesarias.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Al fin y al cabo todos los hombres son iguales<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se ríe Ana Paula<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(pero el viento dice que no, dice que no).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Vení conmigo, vení conmigo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">había gemido Ana Paula<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">debajo de los estertores del hombre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que se vaciaba en ella.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero él ya se había dormido<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre pequeña hoguera o pecho de mujer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Qué raro</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">, pensó Ana Paula,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los hombres vacíos pesan más,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el deseo los hace livianos por un rato,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero después caen a plomo y se duermen<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">o se mueren.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ana Paula empujó con piernas y brazos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">buscando el desahogo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y comenzó a vestirse con lentitud de novia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y de caballero medieval.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La montaña es un dragón de hielo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todavía dormido.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ana Paula se disculpa cada vez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que clava acero en el lomo de hierro:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">No te despiertes, </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">susurra Ana Paula<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sólo soy yo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sólo soy yo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tu Ana Paula Daumal<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">trayéndote el fuego.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Prometeo desencadenado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en camino de regreso<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">arde Ana Paula Daumal:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">confunde cóndor con buitre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">instante con llanura<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cima con eternidad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">arde Ana Paula<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se quema en el alto puente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">donde el deseo de vivir<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">es como el deseo de morir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">No me vas a matar dos veces</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">, dice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y hunde en la nieve dura<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todos los clavos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todas las cruces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–sobre todo una–<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">del cementerio andino<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de allá abajo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en otra montaña<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que es y no es la misma<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que la mató la primera vez.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Al fin y al cabo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todas las montañas son iguales<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">jadea Ana Paula<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y el viento dice que sí<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y el viento dice que no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero Ana Paula<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ya no escucha,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los pies envueltos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en una nube de luz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que se ha encendido de repente:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entre nubes negras<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ha venido el sol.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ana Paula ya no escucha el viento<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ni las voces terrestres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que gritan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que vuelva<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que ya viene la tormenta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Los ojos también necesitan respirar<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">piensa Ana Paula<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras aprieta fuertemente los párpados<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la mirada ahogada en la nube luminosa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que la encierra y la algodona,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">diamante de carne endurecida<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por la voluntad y el cardumen que el dolor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">soltó por sus músculos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como andanada de flechas de plata.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero el viento perro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">perro fiel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">muerde la nube allá arriba y la desgarra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y Ana Paula ve la cima<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">al alcance de los dedos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y más allá un pozo de cielo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y Ana Paula siente que cae en ese agujero<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que no puede más de azul<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y sin darse cuenta llega<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y siente que la montaña la sostiene<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la levanta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">antorcha pagana<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre las oscuridades del mundo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ana Paula sabe que es hora de bajar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Saca la foto del hombre muerto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la deja en un pequeño altar de roca y nieve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ahora te voy a prestar mis ojos, </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dice,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para que veas lo que no pudiste ver.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y Ana Paula mira<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en la mirada hay el doble de brillo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y hay un deseo doble.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Hay silencio alrededor:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la tormenta se ha quedado inmóvil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como un gato antes del salto final.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La mirada de Ana Paula<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">le pesa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y le dobla las piernas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y Ana Paula aprende,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras cae de rodillas:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">no se puede sostener a la vez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la propia mirada<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la mirada de los muertos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(porque los muertos siempre piden más).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con la belleza ante mí camino<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con la belleza detrás de mí camino<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con la belleza encima y alrededor de mí camino<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todo termina en belleza<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todo termina en belleza<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ana Paula Daumal apenas alcanza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a escuchar esa otra voz dentro de su voz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras canta suavemente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se duerme.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-58987567615476497012014-06-08T07:41:00.005-07:002014-06-08T07:41:59.464-07:00Sir Thomas Doughty<div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Puerto de San Julián, Santa
Cruz, 7 de julio de 1578</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size: 10pt;">It is a tale<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size: 10pt;">Told by an idiot, full of
sound and fury,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size: 10pt;">Signifying nothing</span><span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>.
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size: 10pt;">WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-size: 10pt;">Macbeth<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El puerto de Plymouth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se apagaba gris<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">aquel trece de diciembre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de mil quinientos setenta y siete,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como si los tres barcos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que acababan de partir<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">soplaran estelas de plata y lejanía.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ciento sesenta y seis íbamos a bordo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">del <i>Pelican</i>, de la <i>Elizabeth</i>, de la <i>Marigold,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en viaje oficial de reconocimiento<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de los lejanos contornos de la América del Sur<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y búsqueda de la Terra Australis Incógnita<i>.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(Pero hubo órdenes secretas de la Reina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sólo escuchadas por Francis Drake, mi amigo y capitán:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">llevar el fuego y el azufre y el anatema de Albión<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a todas las colonias españolas que beben el agua y la sal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a las orillas del Atlántico y del Pacífico,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los océanos cuyas lenguas frías lamen las costas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de cinco continentes).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sabido es que en toda corte real<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">también hay lenguas frías y calientes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que tejen incesantemente su tapiz de discordias<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">siguiendo los diseños de la ambición.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Así que sólo para los oídos de aquel que fui<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tejió la lengua del Lord Tesorero su contraorden:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">no dejar que se irrite al león español<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–ni a sus mil cachorros sueltos–<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">será la preciada perla con la que contribuiréis,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sir Doughty, a la Corona y al tesoro inglés,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tan faltos como estamos de las lisonjas del comercio<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y de los arrullos de la paz.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ese fue el susurro que quise oír de labios de Sir Burleigh,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Par de Inglaterra e impar traidor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a los designios de nuestra Reina y Virgen Isabel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El porqué de sumarme a la conjura y a la traición<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">es pregunta vana si se conoce la manera<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en que la vanidad y el dulce deseo del oro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">anidan y empollan sus huevos negros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en el pecho de los hombres.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">No se habían apagado todavía las luces de Plymouth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cuando comencé mi tarea de sierpe y comején.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Pero qué pueden la sierpe y el comején<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">contra el Dragón y su aliento de fuego?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Drake, Drake, dragón astuto,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">señor de altos vuelos:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¡ante ti descubriría mi cabeza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"> </span><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">si mi cabeza no estuviera allí,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">rodando por los suelos!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Malos vientos soplaron sobre las tres naves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que cruzaban el Atlántico.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Tan malos que hubo que abandonar dos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en ese ancho río<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que los españoles nombran con palabras de plata<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pese a estar hecho sólo de agua y de barro amarillo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Una sola nave bajó bordeando la costa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Una sola nave es más fácil de amotinar que tres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">según esas sencillas matemáticas de la traición<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que, ay, ahora sé, desconocen los dragones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Una mañana los hombres comenzaron a apartarse de mí.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Evitaban mirarme y a más de uno<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sorprendí trazando signos de protección en el aire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Fui invitado a una espléndida cena.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Drake sonreía. El vino le daba un aliento de fuego<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que de tanto en tanto me echaba a la cara.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sir Thomas </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–me dijo–, <i>ya sabéis que la marinería<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">está hecha de simpleza y de ignorancia.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Fijaos que estos brutos han comenzado a decir<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que Vos, con malas artes de brujo,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">nos habéis traído la desgracia.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">He sabido que ya algunos hablan de mataros<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y arrojaros por la borda.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Comprenderéis que, por vuestro propio interés,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">debo poneros bajo custodia.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las infames manchas de esta vil historia.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Al punto, cuatro soldados me desarmaron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y gentilmente fui llevado a mi encierro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">donde supe que ya podía darme por muerto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El juicio fue breve y despiadado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como la Navaja de Occam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El jurado fue numeroso y multicolor:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Tantas eran las vestimentas y oficios<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de los cuarenta que me juzgaban.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Drake, el astuto dragón,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">oficiaba a la sombra de la vela mayor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">De cómo mi delito pasó de la hechicería<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a la traición<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">no merece ser guardado en la memoria:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">yo, Sir Thomas Doughty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">fui declarado culpable y condenado a morir<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">bajo el hacha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en un patíbulo español. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span><span lang="ES-AR"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero en razón de mi alto linaje<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y de la amistad que Sir Drake dijo todavía dispensarme<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se me ofrecieron dos alternativas a elección:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ser vuelto a juzgar por mis pares en la alta Inglaterra,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">o ser abandonado para siempre en esas costas malditas de Dios.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">No quise volver a Inglaterra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">donde se me volvería a condenar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">delante de mis hijos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">No quise que mi amada Inglaterra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se manchara con mi sangre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">No quise tampoco el destino de vagar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entre matorrales y salvajes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Elegí el hacha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En mi última comida<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sir Drake y yo bebimos, reímos y hasta ensayamos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">algún paso de baile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Brindé por Inglaterra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por la Reina Isabel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por la gloria de aquel verdadero señor de dragones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">secretamente,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por los ojos y el vientre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de Lady Mary Drake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la mujer al calor de cuyo seno<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">incubé el huevo de esta traición.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Después subí tres escalones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">II<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Esa nuca que se sacude bajo el impacto del hacha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">esa sangre que brota violenta, único color vivo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en esta muerta tierra verdegrís,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">esa cabeza que rueda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con la boca abierta a media palabra,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">son, eran, las mías.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El dolor ha sido masivo y considerable<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero lo ha sentido otro, no yo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Lo ha sentido ese cuerpo que todavía tiembla<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y que ha cometido la imperdonable indecencia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de soltar sus aguas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">al mismo tiempo que la vida<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo ha soltado a él.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">He tenido la precaución o la suerte<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de echarme a volar un poco antes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras aquel cuerpo ascendía gravemente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la tosca escala del patíbulo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se inclinaba, no ante el verdugo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y menos ante su hacha comida por el orín,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ni tampoco ante la presencia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de la buena Reina Isabel, a quien<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se siente vibrar en esos pendones y gallardetes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que con premura ha mandado desempolvar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mi capitán y amigo Sir Francis Drake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(siempre tan puntilloso y formal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en estas ceremonias de la muerte).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">No es cierto entonces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que el alma es desalojada del cuerpo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en el momento de morir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">No, el alma es pájaro asustadizo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y lo abandona un tanto antes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El cuerpo queda sólo con la apariencia de la vida,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">animado por sus humores y electricidades<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y, temo tener que decirlo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por miedo a la inmovilidad,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">su enemiga natural.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entonces,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a ese círculo de hombres que se demora<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en comentar los pormenores<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y hará de mí leyenda?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Qué ojos son entonces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los que se deslumbran<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con este estallido de sol<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre el pulido y pálido océano<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que parece venir a dormirse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en esta bahía que Sir Thomas Doughty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">vino a acrecentar con su sangre?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(El barco que me ha traído a la muerte<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">bordea la refulgente mancha solar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como animal oscuro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que ha venido a beber<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">no agua<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sino luz).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Con qué memoria impalpable<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">estoy recordando esta admirable sucesión<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de acontecimientos,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">esos eslabones duros pero invisibles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que se han ido encadenando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para arrastrarme hasta aquí<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y hacerme, oh sucesión de funestas bromas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">amigo y oficial de confianza primero,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">traidor después<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y después aún<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">reo de muerte<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cadáver<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y ahora pájaro sutil?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(Pájaro rastrero<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pájaro silencioso<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pájaro encadenado por siempre<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a esta muerta tierra verdegrís).<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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patíbulo que unos años antes había mandado levantar Hernando de
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Costa del Chubut, 13 de
noviembre de 1895</span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Conrado Victorio Domingues de Souza,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el Portugués,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">gusta pasear los sábados por la mañana<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por el inmenso cangrejal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que festonea el lado sur de la estancia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Por allá camina, por donde el mar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">golpea el médano con lonjazos que crujen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">saturados de salitre viejo y amargo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Esta tierra es mía </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dice Conrado Victorio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y de un bastonazo la jarilla vuela<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">verde, brillante, breve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Esta playa es mía –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dice, y gira sobre su pierna sana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Cada granito de arena es mío –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dice, y escupe saliva, sangre o vinagre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Vos sos mío –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">le dice al mar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y de las tristes profundidades de su bragueta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hace surgir un chorrito enclenque<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que se funde con la inmensidad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El cangrejal se pierde hasta el norte y hasta el sur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La playa de arena fina y barrosa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">está como picada de la viruela:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un millón de hoyitos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un millón de cangrejos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">saludando con sus tenazas al viejo sol.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Los cangrejos y los hoyitos también son míos </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dice Conrado Victorio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y con la punta de la bota insulta la boca de una de las cuevas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Unas tenazas apartan la arena con dos sacudidas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y tajan el aire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–¡Ah! ¡Querés pelear! –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se ríe don Conrado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se agacha hasta la altura de un cangrejo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Busca un palito, algún arma barata y eficaz:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en aquel peladero no hay nada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En sus bolsillos sólo hay billetes nuevos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de esos que le gusta sobar de tanto en tanto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sin sacar la mano del bolsillo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Conrado Victorio Domingues de Souza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">arma un tubito con una sola mano<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(de paso se recuerda, jinete, amo y señor,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pitando tabaco del más áspero)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y le tira una estocada juguetona<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">al feo rostro del animal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Vos me hacés acordar a alguien </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dice entre dientes donConrado.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Alguien que debe estar enterrado por acá nomás </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–finta y estocada. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Pobre infeliz </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–finta y estocada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Pobre infeliz –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">finta y estocada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Pobre infeliz </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–finta y estocada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Conrado Victorio Domingues de Souza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">siente que el tiempo es como cangrejo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">yéndose de costado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por el costado más oscuro de la memoria.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Era una tarde de viento agrio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">aquella en la que citó al Vasco Basaldúa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en la boca del cañadón: una cicatriz conversando con el mar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Traé la platita esa que me dijiste que tenés<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–le había dicho al Vasco–.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Tengo un negocio para vos.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>¿Trajiste la plata? </i>–le preguntó al Vasco<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">apenas lo vio asomar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entre las matas de espinillo<i>–.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Vos estás loco. Qué querés,
Portugués.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Quiero comprar estas
tierras.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–¿Este cangrejal?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Todo esto, hasta
aquellas lomadas:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hay un manantial
allá,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por el lado de las
cortaderas. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Dame la plata y
somos socios.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Vos estás mamado,
Portugués, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">esa plata es para
irme de acá. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Me quiero volver</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y volteó hacia el mar, de donde
venía<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un olor rayado de algas y
pescado muerto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Mamado tu abuela </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–gruñó el Portugués<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras descargaba el palazo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Pobre infeliz –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">rezó<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras lo pisaba entre los
omóplatos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">le tiraba los pelos para atrás<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y lo degollaba de un tajo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Conrado Victorio Domingues de
Souza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se quedó mirando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el riachuelo rojo que bajaba
apenas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta la línea de marea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Como en medio de un sueño,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cavó entre los hoyos del
cangrejal,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">empujó adentro al Vasco
Basaldúa, lo tapó bien<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y después, tranquilo, fue a
buscar la plata<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que el vasco le había confesado
tener<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entre dos malos porrones de
ginebra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Pobre infeliz </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–finta y estocada–,
<i>tu platita la invertí bien.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Ahora todo esto y
hasta detrás de las lomadas es mío </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–finta y estocada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–O nuestro...–</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">finta, risita y
estocada<i>–. Pobre Vasco, pobre infeliz.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Veloz como un mal recuerdo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">una pinza atrapa el billete y lo mete en la cueva.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–¡Dame eso, carajo! </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–y mete dos dedos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El picotazo, más que dolerle, lo enfurece:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Dame eso, cangrejo de mierda </i>–y se pone a escarbar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Por entre los arroyitos de arena<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la cuevita sigue y sigue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Furioso, don Conrado Victorio hunde el bastón en la arena<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como en el lomo de una ballena muerta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Clava y clava y escupe hasta que la arena se desmorona<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con un quejido de seda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Conrado Victorio Domingues de Souza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cae y cae aferrado a su bastón.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Golpea suave contra el fondo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y abre los ojos a una luz que no viene<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ni del sol, ni del fuego ni del relámpago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Son las paredes de roca las que exudan una luz verde y aceitosa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Como en un nicho: un esqueleto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un cachivache desarmado.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Una calavera volteada de lado, mirándolo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como miran las calaveras:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">vacíos los ojos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y todos los dientes en una risa eterna<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en la que brilla, verdoso, un diente de oro barato.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Sos vos, Vasco infeliz </i>–lo reconoce Conrado Victorio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En ese momento siente la mordida,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en la mano apoyada en el suelo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Revolea la mano y el cangrejo vuela y estalla contra la pared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y ahí los ve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cien o trescientos o mil cangrejos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que se le vienen al humo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El bastón comienza un tic tac de péndulo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y que parece reír.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pasan dos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La tenaza del hambre muerde<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en el esófago y en el estómago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y muerde. Y chupa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y cuando viene el segundo ataque<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la carne que chupa de esas patas quebradas a bastonazos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">escupiendo cáscaras y tenazas–.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">revientan golpes y risitas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Dicen que uno escuchó, una vez, como desde muy lejos,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Y vos de qué te reís, Vasco jetón.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Infeliz.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-35621713316277575432014-06-08T07:39:00.004-07:002014-06-08T07:39:24.995-07:00Catherine Roberts-Davies<div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Punta Cuevas, Puerto Madryn, 20
de agosto de 1865</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">…es interesante el hallazgo en
1995 de una tumba a 160 m<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">al SSE de las excavaciones de
Punta Cuevas.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Se trata de una mujer de raza
blanca y de edad mediana,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">enterrada en un ataúd de madera
a unos 50 cm de profundidad.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">[…] La madera del ataúd resultó
ser </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pinus Sylvestris<i>,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">apta para construcciones
navales. Es posible que el ataúd<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">fuera fabricado con madera del
pecio que había cerca,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">usada también para la
construcción del primer campamento.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Es muy probable que estos
restos pertenezcan<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">al único adulto fallecido en
Puerto Madryn en 1865:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Catherine Davies, muerta a los
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">FERNANDO CORONATO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Punta Cuevas: inicio de la
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Catherine, su marido, Robert, y
sus tres hijos partieron<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de Llandrillo en búsqueda de
una vida mejor. Sin embargo,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el hijo pequeño, John, de once
meses, murió durante el viaje<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a la Patagonia y fue enterrado
en el mar.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Al mes escaso de llegar a New
Bay (Golfo Nuevo)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Catherine también falleció.
Robert lo hizo en 1868<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y el hijo mayor, William, en
1872 cuando tenía 15 años.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El único que sobrevivió, Henry,
tenía siete años<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cuando viajó a la Patagonia y
más tarde emigró a Canadá.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">www.glaniad.com<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Maestro de simulacros el mar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con su furia y su agua verde.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Apoyada en la baranda de pino del <i>Mimosa<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Catherine Roberts-Davies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ve las colinas de Llandrillo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">donde sólo hay abismo lento.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero en las colinas de Llandrillo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los muertos no se hunden:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">flotan a ras de tierra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en sus pequeñas barcas de madera<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con una cruz por mástil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y una plegaria por velamen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En las colinas de su pueblo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los muertos tienen domicilio fijo;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">una astilla en la piel de tierra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un polo magnético<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hacia donde giran<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todas las agujas del dolor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En el mar los muertos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">no se quedan quietos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se hacen mancha borrosa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">caen y caen en agua verde<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y después en agua negra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Algún marinero le ha dicho<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que allá abajo hay extraños peces luminosos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Catherine Roberts-Davies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">piensa en su hijo John<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">muerto a los once meses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en medio de la mar atlántica<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en su viaje vertical<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en su escolta de fosforescencias<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en el manto blanco en que iba envuelto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en el ruido sordo de la dentellada<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con que el mar se lo tragó.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ahora mira la foto,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la única de John y sus hermanos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A la luz de la vela se esfuerza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por distinguir los rasgos de su hijo menor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Esa mancha borrosa es todo lo que queda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">No es que el bebé se ha movido<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–como insistía el fotógrafo–<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">es la muerte que ha comenzado a sumergirlo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">es la falsa transparencia del mar,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">es un cruel reverbero del sol,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">es un rostro que ya se aleja<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a lo hondo y a lo oscuro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>¿Cómo no me di cuenta<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dice Catherine–<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que esa máquina infame<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que esa blasfemia química<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que ese ojo del diablo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ya estaba viendo tu futuro?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Parada sobre la arena húmeda de New Bay<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Catherine mira a su hombre y a sus hijos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">arrancando tablas de lo queda de un barco.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Donde antes hubo naufragio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ahora hay canciones y alegría<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que Catherine ya no entiende.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sus hijos llevan cantando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la madera de pino hasta los refugios<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tallados en la roca blanda de la costa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Dentro de veinte días<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">una de las tablas será la tapa de su féretro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Inmóvil para todos los vientos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">salvo el de los años,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mínimo naufragio en las costas del presente,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">una barca de pino ha traído<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">unos huesos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un botón<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">unos clavos oxidados<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un anillo de oro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la duda de un nombre fosforescente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que se hunde, borroso,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en la falsa transparencia del tiempo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-77725286119153319422014-06-08T07:39:00.000-07:002014-06-08T07:39:00.687-07:00Cayetano Murature<div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Trelew, Chubut, 14 de enero de
1944</span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cayetano Murature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">albañil jubilado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">siciliano de profesión<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">está mirando los tomates que se achicharran<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en esas plantitas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">crucificadas dulcemente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre andamios de caña<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y paja brava.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Con apenas dos dedos acaricia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la piel triste de un tomate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Con los mismos apenas dos dedos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se toca las mejillas:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">triste la piel, arrugada,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">curtida de sal,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como si el Mediterráneo se hubiera evaporado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de un soplido de Dios,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">desnudando los tristes acantilados<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de Sicilia y de Cerdeña.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Triste la piel,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tristes los tomates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A Cayetano Murature las sequías de la piel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">no le molestan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero las arrugas de los tomates lo enfurecen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Dos meses sin lluvia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Allá lejos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el río se ha vuelto un barrito chirle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de tanto en tanto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dos gotas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como para probar que el agua existe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cayetano le da vueltas a la cruz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se agacha hasta el pico para mirar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y ver<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cómo una gota le apaga el pucho<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y otra le entra en el ojo:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Porca miseria –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dice Cayetano Murature–, <i>porca yuvia,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">porca caniya e la puta que lo parió al Duce.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cayetano Murature le tira una patada al cañito oxidado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y le erra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y le da al aire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entonces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tremendo patadón,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con tanta mala suerte<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que el aire se raja en un zigzag celestial.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cayetano ve cómo la rajadura se va para arriba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cómo la atmósfera se parte en dos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta las nubes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Mira a un costado.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mira al otro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cayetano Murature mira.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y piensa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y mira otra vez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la rajadura del aire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Toca con un dedo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Piensa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Toca con otro dedo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Piensa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Calza un pie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Piensa otro poco.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y después<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sonríe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">feroz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cayetano Murature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se dejó un par de cosas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">allá abajo:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">unos anteojos de carey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">una cajita de rapé<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">vencido<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">una mandolina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que trajo de Ragusa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Nada más.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Dicen algunos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que Cayetano Murature<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se murió.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Dicen otros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que se fue trepando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por el aire hecho vidrio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Que se fue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y que todavía le anda peleando la lluvia al cielo</span><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-68195244294442711552014-06-08T07:38:00.000-07:002014-06-08T07:38:04.197-07:00Karl Wilhelm Schultz<div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Villa Domínico, Provincia de
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Villa Domínico es un tablero<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de yuyos bravos y barro negro<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y de casas pintadas a la cal.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ajedrez crudo y simple:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los Caballos tiran de los
carros<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cargados de hielo de leche de
pan<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">clipiticlop<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entre la bosta y el agua
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Los Peones cargan su osamenta<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para ir a tejer andamios de
araña cansada.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Las Torres son de arena y
ladrillos apilados<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en los baldíos y en las
esquinas.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El Alfil dice misa para nadie<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">salvo en Navidad y en Domingo
de Ramos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Las Damas vigilan la vereda,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras fingen barrer:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Así es como circulan<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las penas propias<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las historias ajenas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la basura de todos.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El juego no termina nunca,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la vida siempre está en jaque,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el Rey jamás baja hasta ese andurrial.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Karl Wilhelm Schultz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">había llegado al barrio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con sus dos metros de altura,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sus tres caniches negros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y podados como ligustro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y una mujer rubia y sumisa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que olía a lavanda y a alcohol.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Nadie, hasta hoy, supo el nombre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ni la historia de Karl Wilhelm Schultz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ni de su mujer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ni de sus tres caniches negros.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">De cuando en cuando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se lo ve cortando el aire de la tarde<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con sus ojos rojos y su perfil de sable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Nunca habla.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Nunca ríe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Todo lo que hace de su vida<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sucede entre las cuatro paredes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de una casita con un minúsculo jardín<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de crisantemos y rosas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Detrás de las celosías,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por la noche,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se ve la larga sombra del alemán,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">inmóvil,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como esperando algo de la oscuridad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">De cuando en cuando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la mujer rubia y sumisa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">llega con varias botellas de whisky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">asomando de su bolso de piel amarilla.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Después vienen los cantos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y las risas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y los gritos trepando como una tormenta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por la pared de ladrillo desnudo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que hay entre su casa y la mía<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y a la que yo me encaramo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para no perderme la función.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Tedeschi fascisti, figli di putana, tutti </i>–dice mi
padre–<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y con un corto y violento sacudón de cabeza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">me ordena bajar y entrar a la casa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Los gritos del alemán se endurecen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como vidrio y como vidrio estallan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">contra alguna pared:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el patio del Karl Wilhelm Schultz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">está armado de cristales rotos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que amenazan el cielo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y quiebran en mil pedazos la luz del sol.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Shalom Jacob Bergelson,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mercachifle,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">llamado el <i>Tre’pipa’<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por las tres cachimbas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que asoman siempre en el bolsillo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">camina el barrio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">arrastrando su valija de cartón<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y una recua de chiquilines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que lo manguean y lo atormentan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Tre’pipa’, judío amarrete,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">qué llevás en la valija<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿un montón de soretes?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Tre’pipa’ camina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y suda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y masculla<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y después suelta la valija<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y también una caravana de maldiciones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que nadie entiende.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A pedradas desbanda a los cuervos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que, una esquina más allá,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">vuelven a picotear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Tre’pipa’, hijo de perra.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Tre’pipa’, judío<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">– judío<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">– judío<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–judío de mierda.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(A mí me da lástima el Tre’pipa’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por eso lo miro pasar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sin decirle nada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Una vez me saludó de lejos,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">así, con la mano,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como desde un barco que está a punto de partir).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Una tarde,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">bajo una luz difícil,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Tre’pipa’ y el Alemán se cruzan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en alguna vereda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Es una mirada breve como un disparo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Karl Wilhelm Schultz, el Alemán,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sigue su camino, tambaleante,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero Shalom Jacob Bergelson, el mercachifle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo mira largamente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y después se queda inmóvil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como una solitaria pieza de ajedrez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre las baldosas negras y blancas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Desde ese día,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todos los días,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">una hora antes de caer el sol,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Tre’pipa<i>’ </i>viene con su valija y su resuello<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se para frente a la casa del Alemán.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Se queda ahí, de pie,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con una quietud<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que retuerce el aire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y lo adensa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como una onda expansiva<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de lentitud vegetal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Las celosías de la ventana del Alemán<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">permanecen cerradas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Otra tarde,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la mujer rubia y sumisa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sale y va hasta Tre’pipa’:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Qué quiere.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hombre, sin decir nada,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se inclina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">abre la valija<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y saca un pan de jabón.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Un regalo. Para su marido<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dice Shalom Jacob Bergelson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en perfecto alemán.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Después cierra la valija<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se va despacio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La mujer arroja el jabón<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a la zanja que bordea la vereda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El otoño se enfría<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y Tre’pipa’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">continúa su guardia paciente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta que las celosías se entreabren y recortan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la larga figura de Karl Wilhelm Schultz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Shalom Jacob Bergelson,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">despacio, levanta la manga de su sobretodo gris.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Más que verlos, el Alemán adivina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los números negros tatuados<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre el brazo veteado de azul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La puerta se abre de un golpe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En cuatro zancadas Karl Wilhelm Schultz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cruza la calle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La Luger brilla al sol cuando se apoya, despacio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre la frente de Shalom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Juden </i>–dice Schultz, casi sin énfasis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>SchutzStaffel </i>–dice el judío en el mismo tono<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y escupe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La Luger se hinca en la carne de la frente.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Shalom Jacob Bergelson, entonces,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">comienza a hablar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En voz baja, como en una letanía,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">palabras que parecen nombres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de personas y lugares.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y otras palabras que suenan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a plomo, a gas, a humo y a silencio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y después:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Por qué.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La Luger baja despacio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Shalom Jacob Bergelson, el Tre’pipa’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">alza la valija.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Karl Wilhelm Schultz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo ve alejarse y después entra a la casa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Esa y muchas noches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hay gritos y botellas estrelladas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">contra las paredes de la casa de Schultz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Después el silencio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Después el entierro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El coche fúnebre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">seguido por un solo automóvil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La mujer rubia y sumisa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se acerca a la ventanilla<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y mira largamente y con pena<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a los tres caniches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que aúllan contra la verja.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En la mañana,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras barren la vereda<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">as comadres comentan<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que nadie mandó una flor,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que lo velaron a cajón cerrado,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que estas cosas dan vergüenza.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(Por supuesto que ajena).<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-41279200548831913972014-06-08T07:36:00.002-07:002014-06-08T07:36:24.886-07:00María Delfina Alvarado, viuda de Bianchiotta <div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Puerto Madryn, Chubut, 25 de mayo de 1956</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Les vieux ne meurent pas, ils s’endorment un jour et dorment
trop longtemps<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ils se tiennent par la main, ils ont peur de se perdre et se
perdent pourtant<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Et l’autre reste là, le meilleur ou le pire, le doux ou le
sévère<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cela n’importe pas, celui des deux qui reste se retrouve en
enfer.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">JACQUES BREL<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Les vieux</span><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: Caslon540BT, serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">María Delfina Alvarado, viuda
de Bianchiotta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">caminaba pegadita a su sombra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todas las mañanas de otoño en
que había sol.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–En otoño se puede
caminar </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–explicaba a sus nietas–.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Las viejas como yo
tienen que tener cuidado<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con el viento
oeste.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Te tumba.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y es capaz de
llevarte<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de puro jodido que
es.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Noventa y cuatro años<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tres meses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y seis días<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cumplía María Delfina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ese Veinticinco de Mayo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en que el pueblo seguía queriendo saber<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de qué se trata.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">María Delfina Alvarado, viuda de Bianchiotta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">odiaba su sombra:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Dejame en paz </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–le decía–, <i>dejá de andar jodiendo<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">encolada a mis pies. Quién te conoce.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">María Delfina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">envidiaba a los pájaros:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–La sombra no los alcanza allá arriba </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–se explicaba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras medía con pasos cortitos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el túnel de pinos piñoneros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">taladrado entre la avenida y el mar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Jodida sombra. Jodido viento. Vida jodida esta </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–salmodiaba María Delfina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entre dos cuchillazos de reuma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El sol del Veinticinco viene asomando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la sombra de Delfina se alarga<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y es una pincelada oscura y oblicua<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre la vereda rota por años retorcidos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como raíces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Jodida vereda </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–le decía María Delfina a su vecina–.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">No es que yo tropiece:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">es la sombra que se m’enrieda en las raíces.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Se juntan para desgraciarme.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Son como dos víboras:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sombra y raíz<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sombra y raíz.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Se me anudan sobre los empeines.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">moñitos negros me atan sobre los pies.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Moños de sarcófago que me pesan y me queman<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y que en un
tropiezo de esos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">me mandan derechito
al hoyo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Al fin y al cabo ahí se
fueron<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todos los que
conocí </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–explicaba María Delfina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">al joven taxista que la había
ido a buscar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Fijesé: tantos y
tantos que anduvieron<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por esas calles de
dios<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿qué son ahora?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">unos huesitos,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">unos recuerdos acá </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–María Delfina se
tocaba los pocos cabellos–. <i>Nada más.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Y algunos de los
que conocí<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ahora son
cartelitos en una esquina. Le voy a mostrar.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–y le indicó tres o cuatro
esquinas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">bautizadas con los nombres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de modestos próceres de pueblo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Con este me acosté.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Con este también.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Con este no quise
saber nada.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero ahí se apea María Delfina.
Y calla.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Allá a dos cuadras el palco
comienza a crujir<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">bajo zapatos y botas
confraternales:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">están el Intendente, el
Gobernador Militar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el Comisario, la Mujer del
Comisario<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el Cura, la Mujer del Cura<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y varios otros figurones
patrios.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Jodidos políticos
–</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">rezongó María Delfina–. <i>Jodidos militares.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cuándo se dejarán
de joder.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ajeno a las cosas de los
hombres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un remolino, hijo bastardo del
Viento Oeste,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">vino rugiendo como un tren
enloquecido,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la agarró de atrás y la
remontó:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un sacudón seco y suave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Demasiado vieja para asustarse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">María Delfina alcanzó a ver
cómo los pies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se le despegaban de su sombra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y sonrió<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y subió<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y subió.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y se dejó acariciar por el aire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y vio que el aire era bueno.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y se dejó entibiar por el sol<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y vio que el sol era bueno<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se dejó lamer por el vértigo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y vio que el vértigo era mejor:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">María Delfina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lloró a carcajadas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se partió en cuatro espasmos de
risa,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y después se hizo pis encima,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">encima del palco en plena
función.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El Cura se pasó la mano por la
calva y bendijo:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–La lluvia es la
sonrisa del Señor.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El Comisario recibió la fresca
llovizna<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en pleno rostro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se hinchó de orgullo patrio:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Igualito que aquel
Veinticinco –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se dijo. Y lloró.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La Mujer del Comisario vio el
puntito de satén gris<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que era todavía María Delfina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y señaló:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Es un pájaro.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Es un avión –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">terció la Mujer del
Cura.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–No </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dijo el
Intendente– <i>es una bolsita de nylon. Me cago en el Basurero Municipal.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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adormecen y duermen mucho, mucho tiempo / Se toman de la mano, tienen miedo de
perderse y por eso se pierden / Y el otro se queda ahí, el peor o el mejor, el
dulce o el severo/ Eso no importa. Aquel de los dos que se queda está en el
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Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-12725278280281888882014-06-08T07:34:00.003-07:002014-06-08T07:34:42.187-07:00Bartolomé Díaz Carrizo<div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Camarones, Chubut, 17 de marzo de 1535</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">I<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Van quedando lejos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(se hacen de harina y azúcar)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el muelle, las gentes, el
pueblo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de San Lúcar de Barrameda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A Bartolomé Díaz Carrizo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">panadero de a bordo, mozuelo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que no sabe de quién es hijo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">algo le muerde por dentro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras bebe y masca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">espinas de erizo:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Son las tristezas del
partir<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–se dice a modo de consuelo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y vuelve a su amasijo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de angustia de hoy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y de pan que ya es viejo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Simón de Alcazaba y Sotomayor,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Capitán ilustre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de la nao capitana,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">le ha encomendado, al pasar,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la hechura de pan blanco<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y confituras en almíbar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para obsequiar a sus oficiales<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la noche de la partida.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y como es hombre callado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y de buen porte<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a Bartolomé se le encomienda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el servicio personal del
Capitán:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">rinde servicio de jícara<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">al copón de bronce<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que choca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con las copas de cristal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">arrancando chispas de vino
jerez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y breve estruendo musical.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Mis señores oficiales, mis
hermanos<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dice Simón de Alcazaba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entre dos olas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–¡Brindo por la
Madre de Dios,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la San Pedro<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y su valiente
tripulación española!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y los capitanejos levantan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las copas y las tizonas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–¡Iremos por la
gracia de Dios<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a conquistar esa
tierra bárbara!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–festeja el Capitán.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–¡Conquistar,
pacificar, poblar!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–gritan a coro los demás.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Simón de Alcazaba desenrolla<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un mapa de color de tierra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y contra el mamparo lo
crucifica:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">usa puñales en vez de clavos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y con la espada<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">traza cuatro surcos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">enmarcando la conquista.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(Allá abajo, el Estrecho de Magallanes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">es la quinta cicatriz).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>¡Por la Provincia de Nueva León,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que será nuestra,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por la gracia del Señor!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–grita con gran voz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el señor de Alcazaba.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>¡Por la mayor gloria de Dios,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por el triunfo del Rey,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por nuestro señor y Capitán,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">don Simón!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y riendo se levantan todos,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y clavan uno a uno sus espadas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre aquel reino de papel y carbón.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">II<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Tres meses por falta de agua<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hubieron de sufrir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Al final, después de harto aguantar la sed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta los perros y gatos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">bebían vino puro. <a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference">*</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La marinería reía alborotada<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de las cabriolas de los gatos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y de las dentelladas que los perros tiraban<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a los fantasmas del alcohol.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero Bartolomé Díaz Carrizo se entristecía<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras les daba duro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a los bollos de harina negra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Que los animales
anden borrachos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">no es cosa de Dios.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Más de tres meses duró la
travesía<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta ese lugar donde hallaron
puerto y abrigo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y un pródigo manantial de aguas
claras<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y esos animales<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que <i>eran leones y pejes a la vez <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como decía maravillado el
piloto Juan Ortiz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;"> Puerto de los Leones</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;"> fue su solemne
bautizo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en nombre y honra del Rey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Siguen cayendo por aquellas
costas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta el Estrecho de Magallanes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que se aparecía en sueños a
Alcazaba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como un portal de pedrerías y
de oros lejanos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero no hallan puerta sino
boca,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cerrada diente sobre diente,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que con rabioso espumajo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">les impide el paso a su través.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Trepan trabajosamente las naos
el mapa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y recalan otra vez en el Puerto
de los Leones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Allí Simón de Alcazaba manda
levantar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">una iglesia de lonas y velas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para que cada día se diga misa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se respeten los días de
guardar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Presto a lanzar la conquista<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">forma cuatro escuadras.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Arcabuceros, ballesteros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y hombres de lanza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">forman su escolta personal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cuidadoso como un padre,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ordena que se cosan sin
retraso,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para los que no tienen escudo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">unos sacotes
aforrados con lana<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para que las
flechas no les hiciesen mal</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">.*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero no hay indios<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a la vista<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en ese desierto que se abre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como fauces amarillas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Aquejado más que de dolores, de
aburrimiento<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se vuelve Simón de Alcazaba al
Puerto de los Leones,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">no sin nombrar a Rodrigo de
Isla<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para que guíe a los hombres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en su nombre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Veinte días caminan como
fantasmas adormilados<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Bartolomé Díaz entre ellos–<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">antes de dar con un río<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y unos pocos indios viejos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Rodrigo de Isla<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">manda cortar unos mimbres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y hacer con ellos balsas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para cruzar el río manso.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y, así, caminando llegan a otro
río<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que serpenteaba <i>entre peñas<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todo cercado de árboles<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y allí comen <i>cardos e raíces<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">e muy grandes
pescados.</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Bordeando el río entre peñas
rojas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ven lo que parecen ciudades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Aceleran el paso los hombres:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">unos hablan de cúpulas de bronce<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">otros de auríferos altares<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y más otros de grandes hazañas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero las alegrías se truecan en maldiciones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en denuestos y en blasfemias<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y al final en una nada vacía:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la ciudad de oro no era<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">más que puras montañas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sólo Bartolomé se santigua,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cae de rodillas y ora,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">porque piensa que no el viento,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sino la mano de Dios<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ha tallado esas catedrales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Hay cansancio y descontento entre los hombres:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>que esto es perder el tiempo<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>que no es cuestión de morir buscando quimeras<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para que otros se hagan ricos,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>que volvamos al puerto de los leones<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>matemos al que se oponga<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por más que hijodalgo sea,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–y de allí a la mar, a España<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">o al infierno,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que para algo tenemos cojones.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Del dicho al hecho:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Rodrigo de Isla y Juan de Mori<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ya marchan encadenados<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entre las burlas de aquellos feroces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A falta de capitanes de buen juicio,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">desandar el camino se hace arduo:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En el camino pierden cincuenta hombres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entre extraviados y exhaustos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cuando avistan las velas de las naves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hace ya mucho tiempo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que Bartolomé Díaz Carrizo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el callado panadero,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">fue dado por perdido y muerto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en alguna de esas frías noches.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero Bartolomé no está muerto ni extraviado.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sigue de lejos a la cohorte de andrajos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">temeroso de Dios,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">asqueado de esos trasgos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que ya perdieron hasta el nombre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Trepado a un farallón<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ve llegar a la horda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los ve abordar a las naves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y adivina, más que ve,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a Simón de Alcazaba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">morir bajo espadas y puñales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Muchos bultos oscuros caen esa tarde por la borda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Bartolomé alcanza a ver leones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">nadando por el agua roja.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Por la noche llegan los gritos borrachos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con que Arias arenga a la tropa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Quiere hacer de ellos piratas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y hacerse él mismo capitán,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la jauría se gruñe como enfrentada<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por los favores de una perra mala.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Algunos leales se sublevan y ganan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Poco después<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la rebelión y las cabezas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">caen rodando del tajo al mar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">No tardan en aparejar las naves,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">aprovisionar y levar las anclas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Parten dejando atrás ochenta hombres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entre muertos, perdidos y ajusticiados.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Nadie recuerda ya a Bartolomé Díaz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el panadero como el pan callado.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Apenas si escriben su nombre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en la bitácora desprolija<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dándolo por inocente de sedición<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y, al fin de cuentas, por finado.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero Bartolomé Díaz Carrizo, a su pesar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todavía está vivo. Con su horror a cuestas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">desanda el camino<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta la tierra de las catedrales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Nunca volverá ni a su llano ni a su pueblo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">porque Bartolomé sabe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que hacia aquel enorme desierto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">también ha huido Dios.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y que es no otra sino España<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la que ha comenzado a oler a muerto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-24948671588763069112014-06-08T07:33:00.003-07:002014-06-08T07:33:37.925-07:00Elías Alipio Barrantes Oyarzún<div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut, 17
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Elías Alipio Barrantes Oyarzún<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">medio argentino<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">medio chileno<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">medio oficial pintor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">medio viejo para andar subiendo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el espinazo del barrio de la loma,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un día se cansó entero<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y, al pie de los tachos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se negó a trabajar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Por la cuesta del barrio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">iban como subiendo las casitas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que el pintó:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la de doña Sonia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">rosada como la panza de los flamencos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la del plomero Raimapo, verde agua<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la de la viuda Hinostroza,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la que un día se soltó el pelo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y lo homenajeó como hombre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(aunque una sola vez)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Cosas lindas los colores –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dijo Elías Alipio Barrantes Oyarzún<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y metió el índice en un tacho de puro azul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Unas cosquillas se le arremolinaron en la ingle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(como cuando la viuda vino de atrás<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y le dio un beso<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que fue un toque de plumón<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en la comisura de los labios).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Entre complacido y asustado sacó la mano<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se quedó mirando el muñón limpito.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Elías miró el tacho, miró el muñón y el tacho otra vez.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Con un palito<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con cuidado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">buscó y rebuscó, en el fondo del azul,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">su dedo de señalar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Nada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Metió el dedo meñique en el tacho verde<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y sacó un muñoncito verde.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Elías Alipio se despidió de su dedo benjamín<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras el placer le corría lomo abajo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como cardumen suave y caliente.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Allá arriba la casita de la viuda Hinostroza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">parecía andar necesitando unas manitos de pintura.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Allá lejos, abajo y lejos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el golfo era como un gran tacho de pintura azul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Manso.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Profundo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A Elías Alipio Barrantes Oyarzún<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se le encendió el rostro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mientras arrastraba el laterío<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta el jardincito de la viuda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y ahí, mientras amanecía,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Elías Alipio Barrantes Oyarzún<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">fue metiendo un pie en el tacho verde<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">otro en el amarillo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El brazo se le fue como pez en el rojo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El sexo cantó una cuequita silenciosa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">antes de disolverse en un silencio azul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y al final,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">siempre con su sonrisita,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo que quedaba de Elías Alipio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se dejó caer para siempre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en un mar de color durazno.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La viuda Hinostroza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">salió al jardín<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se quedó mirando los tachos
que chorreaban sobre la<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tierra negra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">recién carpida, del jardín.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Cosas del Alipio –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se dijo con buen
malhumor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Viejo loco. Como
si una anduviera para esas cosas.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(La viuda Hinostroza entró y
trajo un sillín de paja).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Viejo loco. Dónde se habrá
metido. Hasta la brocha se dejó.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La viuda esperó y esperó.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Con un palito jugó a mezclar
colores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pintó un clavel o dos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Dibujó su nombre en la vereda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">una letra de cada color.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Abajo pintó «Alipio»<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y encerró las dos palabras en
un corazón.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Con rabia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con pena<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo borró con el pie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Ahora la vieja
loca soy yo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Dónde se habrá
metido.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Por qué no viene
de una buena vez.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La calle que subía hasta su
casa era<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como una pincelada de barro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entre las casas del pobrerío.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La calle vacía<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La calle vacía.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La calle vacía.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A la tardecita se levantó<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">alzó un tacho<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-63841161368014964192014-06-08T07:32:00.003-07:002014-06-08T07:32:55.627-07:00Juan Domingo Chincoles, alias «Chingolo»<div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Esquel, 16 de junio de 1955</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">L</span></i><i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">os receptores para el dolor se encuentran en la piel,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en las estructuras musculoesqueléticas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y en las vísceras. […] las
neuronas llevan la<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">información hacia centros
superiores<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en el tronco cerebral y en el
tálamo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">www.zonamedica.com.ar<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las hachas comen con sal<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la confianza del árbol<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">SILVIA CASTRO<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Textos del río<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">I<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Juan Domingo Chincolef, peso pluma,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">no conoce la palabra tálamo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero está sufriendo sus consecuencias:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tálamo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tálamo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">resuenan en su cabeza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los golpes que<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Había un álamo en Cajón de Ginebra Chico</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Un álamo cae<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a ambos lados<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">del filo del hacha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">si la muerte es en otoño<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hay un tálamo de hojas
amarillas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los brotes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">intuyen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que no hay verde más allá.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(talán talán<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">quince minutos)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Había un turco en
Cajón de Ginebra Chico.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Los alfanjes copian su
curvatura<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de aquel pedazo de luna?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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envión de resuello mortal?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Los alfanjes cruzan el mar
talando el cielo de los peces?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Muere un alfanje en el Líbano<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y renace hacha en Chubut?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(talán talán<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">doce minutos)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">levantando un
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el vuelo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y el suelo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(talán talán<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">nueve minutos)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los nidos no resisten la
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">antes de llegar al suelo son
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y una plumita lenta que no sabe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Qué raro:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los álamos tirados<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">son más crecidos.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y como que
viborean:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">asustan y engañan<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como una víbora en
flor<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(talán talán<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">seis minutos)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¿Esa campana suena
para mí?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Claro, tarado, para
quién van a sonar<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todas las campanas
suenan para vos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">parate y mordé<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">parate y mordé<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">escupí pal costado<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">escondé la lengua<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y mordé<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(talán talán<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tres minutos)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">nadie toca la
campana por aquel álamo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">nadie le tira la
toalla<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el turco levanta
con su media risa de alfanje<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el trofeo
desplumado.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hachazo da, por ejemplo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en el hígado.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hígado retrocede seis
milímetros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">antes de recordar su naturaleza
de esponja:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">chupa un mar de dolor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">vomita un haz de cerdas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que raspan la cuerda escondida
del nervio central<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pezuñas de vidrio molido<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que trepan trepanan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el hueco de la columna<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(que deja de ser vertebral)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">viborea la columna<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">muerde con sus dos dientitos el
tálamo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">fiesta de cerdos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">violín de nervios<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tambor de piel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">chim pum<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la esencia del dolor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">es no tener densidad:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un hueco que repta por su
propio hueco.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-3819411721484234102014-06-07T20:57:00.004-07:002014-06-07T20:57:51.063-07:00Damián Bernabé Irusta, alias «El Rulo»<div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ciudad de Neuquén, 14 de agosto
de 1988</span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Damián Bernabé Irusta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">llamado «el Rulo»<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por un mechón que el tiempo se llevó tiempo ha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">canta nada para nadie sentado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en el suelo polvoriento de la galería.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La calle pasa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el Rulo canta:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hubo un tiempo que fue hermoso<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">miente el Rulo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a dos metros de un vómito de vino y choripán<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que la noche le dejó de regalo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Me gusta ese tajo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">gime el rulo a las diez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y una rubia piel canela<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo mira con pena y espanto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Potra de nácar<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">yo te haría recorrer el mejor de los caminos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">recita el Rulo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero qué sabés de García Lorca<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero qué sabés<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">si ni sabés que el tiro de gracia<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se lo metieron por el culo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por rojo y por maricón.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Estoy tan cansado<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que me voy a suicidar<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mañana por la noche<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">advierte el rulo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la medianoche le danza alrededor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con sus hijos más negros.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Yo vivía en el bosque muy contento<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">versea el Rulo a la una.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Me’chó de su cuarto gritaaaandomé<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">grita el Rulo a las dos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">refunfuñando porque no hizo peso’ para comer<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">refunfuña el Rulo a las tres<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un día más pa’ cagarse de hambre<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en esta puta ciudad<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">improvisa un blues el Rulo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para la rata que lo mira<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">parada en dos patas junto al muñón<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de lo que fue su pierna izquierda.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Juira bicho<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">amaga con la muleta el Rulo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">medio en broma<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero el bicho apenas se corre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un salto de rata para atrás.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y entonces el Rulo ve a la segunda rata<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que se asoma<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con una porción de muzzarella<i> </i>entre los dientes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para depositarla dentro del estuche<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con infinita delicadeza ratonil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El Rulo se queda mirando la pizza<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tambaleando entre el deseo y el asco.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Vence, a medias, el deseo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se la come entre dos arcadas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Entonces ve llegar a la tercera rata<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y a la cuarta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y a una quinta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cada una con una ofrenda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">traída desde la alcantarilla<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con infinita delicadeza ratonil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Gracias, gracias<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dice el Rulo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tratando de no entender.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La primera rata se acerca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y toca levemente la guitarra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con su patita gris.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El Rulo entiende.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ya sabe lo que se espera de él.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y la madrugada se llena<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de chacareras, de zambas, de rocanrroll,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta que el Gran Ratón Dorado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">comienza a teñir el cielo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Entonces las ratas se arremolinan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se dividen en escuadrones:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entre cincuenta alzan la guitarra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con infinita delicadeza ratonil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la bajan por la boca de tragar tormentas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ciento cincuenta cargan el estuche.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cuando ya no queda más que<i> </i>una rata<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mirándolo desde el borde,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el Rulo apoya la muleta contra
una vidriera<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">deja bajo un medio ladrillo la
medallita de la virgen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y una vieja foto de mujer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Duda un momento<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">saca la foto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la besa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la vuelve a dejar en su altar
de vidrio y neón.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Después se arrastra hasta la
alcantarilla,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mira la calle por última vez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se deja caer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-90017348473864054782014-06-07T20:57:00.000-07:002014-06-07T20:57:07.329-07:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">T’ol k’ete-nK Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Al norte de San Antonio, Río
Negro, 6 de marzo de 1828<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">T’ol k’ete-nK Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">nacida diecinueve veranos atrás<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mujer y tehuelche<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sintió calor bajo la piel de guanaco<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se alegró de escuchar tan cerca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el latido del mar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El latido del mar,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">así llamaba Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a la canción furiosa de las olas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sus amigas se reían, diciéndole:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Aromkesh, hablas mal, el mar no late,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el mar ruge como el puma<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cuando salta y mata,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el puma ruge como la tormenta<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cuando llega sobre los toldos,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la tormenta ruge como la tierra<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">bajo las patas de los guanacos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cuando escapan de las </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">gotel<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de nuestros maridos.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero Aromkesh no escuchaba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(no le importaba escuchar)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y seguía llamando latido<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">al bramido del mar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y latido era la voz poderosa del puma<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y latidos eran para ella todos los sonidos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por encima de la tierra y por debajo del cielo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La tierra está viva:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todo lo que está vivo tiene su latido,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta las olas y los olos del mar.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ay, Aromkesh, otra vez tu lengua se enreda<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las olas no tienen machos y hembras<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las olas no son como los zorros y los leones de mar.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero T’ol k’ete-nK Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se reía a su vez.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Queridas y estúpidas amigas,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">deberían cerrar la boca:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">porque todo tiene su pareja en el mundo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Por encima de la tierra y por debajo del cielo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la mitad es macho y la mitad es hembra:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mundo triste sería este<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">si algo quedara sin hacer el amor.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ay, Aromkesh, Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todo tiene su pareja en este mundo,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">todos, menos T’ol k’ete-nK Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pobre amiga, tan joven, y ya viuda.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Entonces Aromkesh, sin decir nada,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se desnudaba corriendo y llorando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se arrojaba al mar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y nadaba y nadaba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta que el sol se hacía viejo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la luna comenzaba a brillar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hombre de Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">había muerto hacía dos inviernos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">luchando contra el araucano<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">venido desde donde muere el sol.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hombre de Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">era hijo mayor del Oyp’enK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el Hombre que Va Adelante<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el jefe de su pueblo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el que le había dado el nombre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de T’ol k’ete-nK Aromkesh<span style="font-size: xx-small;">
</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[2]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el día en que la recibió por primera vez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en su casa de cuero.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Esa tarde sus amigas se cansaron de esperarla<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y volvieron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por un lento camino de arena y tiempo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Aromkesh ni siquiera las vio partir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Se alejó por la orilla blanca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">buscando mejillones y cangrejos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que guardaba en una red<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que ella misma había tejido<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en las noches de soledad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Las últimas luces del sol<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">brillaron sin brillar sobre un bulto oscuro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que interrumpía el liso cielo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">reflejado con todos sus colores en la arena.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Al acercarse vio que era un hombre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">desnudo y negro como las piedras de tallar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Se acercó sin apuro y sin miedo:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el hombre parecía muerto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Lo empujó con el pie desnudo, una vez, dos veces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La tercera vez un gruñido de diablo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la arrojó de espaldas contra la arena.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hombre o diablo rugía a cuatro patas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los ojos venosos enrojecidos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cuando Aromkesh quiso acercarse, atacó<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el aire a dentelladas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¡Quieto, P’ole wa’chen! <a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[3]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;"> –dijo entre dientes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">divertida y alarmada–. <i>¡Quieto!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">No te voy a lastimar, no me muerdas.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Al ver la sonrisa de la mujer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">algo se quebró dentro del hombre negro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que se desmoronó feliz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dentro de su propia negrura.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Aromkesh lo miró un tiempo muy largo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta que la respiración suave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">le dijo que el hombre estaba dormido<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y, tal vez, soñando.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Lo arropó con su quillango<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y le dejó la red de mejillones y cangrejos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como mudo regalo de bienvenida.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Al día siguiente lo encontró sentado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mirando el mar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Por las cáscaras y tenazas sembrados a su alrededor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">supo que su regalo había sido aceptado.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ella había traído picana de ñandú<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y una tinaja de agua dulce,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que el hombre le arrebató de
las manos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero bebió en pequeños y
espaciados tragos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Muy bien, Po’le
Wa’chen </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–le sonrió<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">porque Aromkesh respetaba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a los que sabían cuidarse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">del desierto y de sí mismos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ahora tenés que
comer.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hombre tomó con precaución<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el asado y sonrió apenas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cuando terminó, Aromkesh se
había ido.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cada día ella le traía comida y
agua<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y pequeños regalos:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">tientos y mantas de cuero<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y palos retorcidos para que el
hombre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hiciera su refugio contra el
sol y contra el frío.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Una mañana, el sol casi estaba
en lo alto,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">él dejó de comer y la miró<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se golpeó el pecho con la mano
abierta:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¡Yahyah! –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dijo con orgullo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y después golpeó suave el pecho
de Aromkesh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¡Aromkesh! </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dijo Aromkesh
tocándose el corazón.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¡Yahyah!¡Mandinké!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¡Yahyah, jalolu!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y entonces el hombre negro se
puso de pie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y comenzó a cantar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Aromkesh cerró los ojos y vio<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un rey negro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y mil hombres de lanza y
penachos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y vio animales nunca vistos:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">guanacos de cuello como
serpientes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y ballenas con cuatro patas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y leones de mar que sacudían
sus melenas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre arbustos altos como
montañas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Yahyah se sentó y susurró:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Yahyah, jalolu </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–y comenzó a
llorar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Entonces Aromkesh cantó a su
vez.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y Yahyah vio el terrible
desierto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y jirafas de cuello muy corto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y leones que parecían peces del
mar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Se quedó mirándola asombrado y
después la señaló:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">¡Aromkesh, jalolu! </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y se palmeó los
muslos con alegría.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y así supo Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que <i>jalolu </i>era El Que
Canta Palabras Para Ver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Desde ese día ella le trajo
regalos nuevos:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">le trajo palabras de su lengua<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que guardaba como un tesoro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">porque para Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las palabras, bien usadas,
sirven para alumbrar el mundo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pronto él aprendió el juego:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">señalaba una cosa y Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">le regalaba el nombre:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hombre negro levantaba un
caracol.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">K’ool –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">decía Aromkesh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Un dedo negro señalaba un
cangrejo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de destino errático.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Kamell </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–se reía Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">viéndolo caminar como cangrejo
borracho.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La mano negra se enredaba en un
tiento.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">K’awn </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–decía Aromkesh y
se lo ataba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a él en la muñeca.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Yahyah tocó la vincha en la frente de ella.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cóochele </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dijo ella y se la regaló.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Él apoyó la mano sobre el pecho tibio de Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y con la boca imitó el sonido de un corazón.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Tol –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dijo Aromkesh,
sintiendo que se le salía por la boca.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">De un tirón él le arrancó el
taparrabos húmedo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">porque Aromkesh venía del mar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Shee </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dijo ella con un
hilo de voz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La mano de él le tomó un pecho<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y desde allí bajó lenta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta cerrarse sobre el sexo
húmedo de Aromkesh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Oshk’en </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–quiso decir ella<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero Yahyah la tumbó fieramente
sobre la arena.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ella le mordió los hombros con
furia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y él empujó y empujó hasta que
los dos fueron uno.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Todos y cada uno de los días<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que duró la luna llena<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">él la tumbó,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cada vez más dulcemente,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre la arena.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El octavo día ella lo tumbó a
él.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La luna cambió cuatro veces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y fue llena otra vez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y Yahyah y Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se vieron todos los días<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en secreto pero no en silencio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Aromkesh le había regalado
tantas palabras<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que Yahyah podía ahora hablar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la lengua de la gente de la
tierra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y se contaron sus vidas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y se amaron más profundamente
aún.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Un amanecer Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo encontró como la primera vez,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">mirando el mar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Detrás del mar está mi tierra<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dijo señalando hacia el sol que nacía, rojo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Mi tierra es siempre cálida, pero<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">aquí ha comenzado a hacer frío<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre mi corazón.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Aromkesh no dijo nada,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">porque sabía que el frío del alma<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">no puede ser abrigado ni por piel del guanaco<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ni por cuerpo de mujer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Estuvo silenciosa muchos días.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Una mañana, sin decir nada, lo tomó de la mano<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y lo llevó a un lugar secreto,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">donde el mar había cavado en la roca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">profundas heridas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Yene </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–le dijo señalando
el bote <i>winka<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[4]</span></span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">traído allí por el mar muchas tormentas atrás.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hombre negro reconoció las formas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Había navegado el río Gambia en cosas parecidas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Había visto los <i>yene </i>de los <i>winka</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Había sido devorado por uno y en su vientre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">había cruzado el mar, mientras sus hermanos y hermanas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">morían encadenados a la fiebre y la tristeza.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Este que le mostraba Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">era un <i>yene </i>ciertamente muy pequeño,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero Yahyah comprendió.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cargaron el bote con toda la carne seca <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y las raíces y el agua fresca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que pudieron reunir a espaldas de la gente de Aromkesh.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Levantaron un toldo con cueros y palos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y cosieron velas de cuero.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cuando todo estuvo listo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">él la tumbó una vez más,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dulcemente,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre la arena.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero sólo pudieron llorar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Yahyah subió a la nave.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El camino del mar puede llevarme a la muerte,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">venir conmigo puede ser para morir<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dijo él para consolarla.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Quedarse no es más seguro:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">me moriré mirando el mar<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–le contestó Aromkesh con suavidad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Entonces él le tendió la mano.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Las amigas de Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">encontraron el collar semienterrado en la arena<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y lo llevaron como prueba y prenda de la muerte<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de la hermosa Aromkesh, ahogada en el mar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Hubo luto muchos días y muchas noches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">alrededor de las hogueras y en el corazón de todos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Un niño contó que un día había visto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a Aromkesh luchar en la arena<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con un diablo negro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Un diablo negro se la llevó<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–dijo a quien quisiera oírlo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero era un niño famoso por sus
mentiras,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y nadie lo escuchó,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">nadie, ni siquiera el viento<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que sopla y sopla desde el
desierto de Aromkesh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta la selva verde y negra de
Yahyah,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el diablo negro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el esclavo mandinga<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el poeta juglar.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span><b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="Smbolodenotaalpie"><span lang="ES-AR"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="Smbolodenotaalpie"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: Caslon540BT, serif;"> «Piedras de las boleadoras», en
lengua tehuelche todos los vocablos destacados en este poema.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="Smbolodenotaalpie"><span lang="ES-AR"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="Smbolodenotaalpie"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: Caslon540BT, serif;"> «Nuera de buenos sentimientos».<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="Smbolodenotaalpie"><span lang="ES-AR"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="Smbolodenotaalpie"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: Caslon540BT, serif;"> «Perro negro».<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="Smbolodenotaalpie"><span lang="ES-AR"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="Smbolodenotaalpie"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="ES-AR"> “Hombre blanco”</span></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/digital%20system/Documents/Mis%20documentos/docs%20bruno/Cr%C3%B3nicas%20para%20Ediciones%20en%20danza.doc#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="Smbolodenotaalpie"><span lang="ES-AR" style="font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif";"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="Smbolodenotaalpie"><span lang="ES-AR"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[5]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span lang="ES-AR"> </span><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La de Yahyah, un <i>jalolu
</i>o juglar profesional de la etnia mandinga, puede ser una de las tantas historias
de esclavos negros capturados en la costa africana occidental. Esta crónica
imaginaria transcurre durante la guerra que las Provincias Unidas del Río de la
Plata libraron contra el Imperio del Brasil. Muchas naves esclavistas fueron
capturadas por corsarios argentinos y llevadas al puerto de Carmen de
Patagones. Una vez allí los africanos eran obligados a engancharse en el
Ejército. La mayoría murió debido a los rigores del clima patagónico. Algunos
se emplearon como peones o puesteros de estancia, como mano de obra casi
gratuita. Unos pocos huyeron hacia el desierto y encontraron refugio en las
tolderías tehuelches: «No fueron pocos los negros que, en busca de corazones
más sensibles, escaparon a los indios tehuelches, entre quienes debieron hallarlos,
porque en poco tiempo nacían en sus tolderías indiecitos atezados y de pelito
crespo», en Jorge Fernández C.: <i>Estudio de política aborigen pampeana</i>,
Cuadernos del Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Iberoamericano,
Ediciones INAPL, Buenos Aires, 2002.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-87049245661355107692014-06-07T20:54:00.001-07:002014-06-07T20:54:11.673-07:00N.N.<div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Puerto Madryn o Río de la
Plata, algún día de septiembre de 1976</span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El micro zumba trepando por el mapa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Allá afuera reinan mil matas de jarilla:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hogueritas verdes ardiendo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en el frío seco de la estepa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Estamos en ese ningún lugar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">entre Trelew y Puerto Madryn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que algunos llaman el Bajo Simpson.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La mujer me habla de su padre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(a quien yo conocí<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en tiempos que ahora imagino felices).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Tiene sus mismos ojos de niño azul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La escucho atentamente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(como es bueno escuchar a una mujer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cuando habla de su padre).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Papá tenía sus cosas </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–me dice–,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">jodón como era tenía sus cosas,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sindicalista de los bravos era mi papá<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y siempre estaba ahí con la gente<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">siempre<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">siempre, fijate vos, hasta en la época de los
milicos.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Ajá –</span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">digo yo, porque
presiento la historia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Un día vinieron y nos alquilaron la casita del
fondo:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un hombre y una mujer<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">callados y amables como árboles.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">También tenían dos
hijas más chicas que yo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Jugábamos a saltar
la soga<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">al elástico<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a las muñecas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a las pelucas.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>¿A las pelucas</i>?
–pregunto pensando en la palabra «preguntas».<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–A las pelucas.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La mamá tenía<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un baúl lleno de
pelucas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">enruladas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lacias<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">negras<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">doradas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pelucas de reina
tenía la mamá de las nenas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">vestidos de
princesa tenía esa señora callada y blanca.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–¿Era actriz?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Era guerrillera.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Silencio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–A veces me ayudaba
con la tarea<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a veces me invitaba
a tomar la leche.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–El hombre tenía
los ojos tristes<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta cuando jugaba
con sus hijas.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Bigote grande, ojos
tristes,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y sonreía, sonreía
siempre.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Otro silencio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Un día desaparecieron.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Así.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Como si los hubiera borrado el viento.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Los vientos bestiales del setenta y seis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pregunto si se los llevaron.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–No. Se fueron.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Dejaron la mesa tendida<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">comida en el horno<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la bañera llena de ropa enjabonada<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el baúl de las pelucas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los papeles.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–¿Los papeles?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Libros.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Documentos.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Unos planos de una instalación militar.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y las armas.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–¿Armas?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–Armas. El jardincito del fondo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">estaba sembrado de revólveres.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Eso lo supimos un día después<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cuando un peón que contrató papá<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">para cavar cimientos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">vino hasta la casa<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con los ojos redondos de asombro<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a traernos esos fierros entre las manos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como si fueran lagartos secos.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Papá se hizo el distraído y guardó<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las armas en el ropero.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Esa tarde hicimos una fogata con los libros<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los planos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y unos papeles
rojos.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A los documentos
papá los escondió.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Al otro día, creo
que era domingo,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">muy temprano,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">fuimos con papá al
muelle.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Llevaba en las
manos un bulto<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">envuelto en papeles
de diario.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Me dejó cargarlo un
ratito nada más:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a través del papel
yo sentí las formas ácidas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de cañones y
gatillos.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Antes de tirarlo
desde la punta del muelle papá me miró<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y yo supe que esa
mirada quería decir silencio.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Esa misma noche
entraron a mi casa<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como una jauría
verde y negra.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Revolvieron todo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A papá lo fusilaban
a preguntas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y papá, jodón como
era,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">los volvía locos
contándoles anécdotas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de su servicio
militar.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero la mirada de
mi papá<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">era como un
cuchillito azul<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cuando los miraba
pisotear la casa.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Después se fueron,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en medio de un
griterío,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sin encontrar nada.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Le pedí a papá que
me dejara quedar<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con el baúl de las
pelucas.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Papá me hizo un
gesto que quería decir «sí»<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y abrazó a mamá,
que todavía temblaba.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pasó mucho tiempo,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">o no tanto,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">(vos sabés que el tiempo de los chicos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">es como un oro fácil<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que crece y se estira como rama de árbol).<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Una tarde estaba yo jugando en el patio,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a la sombra de un castaño.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Me había puesto un vestido largo,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el más lindo del baúl,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y una peluca negra y lacia<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que bailaba en mi cintura<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a cada paso.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Y de pronto lo vi, mirándome,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">al hombre alto y callado.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ya no tenía bigotes<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ahora tenía el pelo claro,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero lo reconocí igual<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por la sonrisa<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por los ojos tristes<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por ese gesto que siempre traía en las manos.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Preguntó por papá.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Los dos hombres estuvieron<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hablando un rato largo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Haciéndome la distraída me quedé cerca<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y así supe:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que después del aviso alcanzaron a irse con lo
puesto<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que se separaron en alguna calle del pueblo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que él se llevó a las hijas<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que ahora estaban con unos tíos de Adrogué<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que a ella no la vio más.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Papá se levantó despacio y fue hasta su dormitorio.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Levantó unas tablas del piso<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y trajo un envoltorio de plástico.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Se los dio al hombre, que esperaba<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como arropado en un cansancio infinito.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">De la bolsa de plástico negro<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cayeron los documentos sobre la mesa.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hombre miró largamente la foto de ella.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Yo no alcancé a leer el nombre.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Después se levantó y le dio las gracias a mamá y a
papá.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Terminó su copa de anís.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Yo fui hasta mi cuarto y traje a la rastra<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el baúl de las pelucas y los vestidos de reina.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hombre de los ojos tristes me dijo que me lo
regalaba<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que lo cuidara mucho<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y después se fue.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Afuera era de noche.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Miro a través de la ventanilla del micro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Aquí también es la noche.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ahora son hogueras rojas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las que arden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre todo el triste país.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A S. C.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por haberme<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">confiado una
historia<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">parecida a esta.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
Bruno Di Benedettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00402357680249601970noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1457948279546114836.post-86224157496998068902014-06-07T20:46:00.003-07:002014-06-07T20:46:26.799-07:00J. F. I. L. Funes<div class="MsoNormal" style="page-break-before: always; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Caslon540BT","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Buenos Aires, 26 de agosto de 2036</span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Los espejos y la paternidad son
abominables.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">J. L. BORGES<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>Tengo orden de entregarle esto </i>–dijo el hombre–<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por favor, firme aquí y aquí </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–la pluma de acero que le tendió<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">brilló como una daga.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Entre el hombre trajeado y encorbatado en seda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y el hombre ya viejo de agónico saco gris<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">había una más vieja y anónima mesa de pensión.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sobre la mesa, un largo estuche de madera y cuero.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sobre el estuche un sobre lacrado.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hombre, envuelto en una sedosa nube de perfume,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">saludó con vaivén de péndulo invertido<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y antes de cerrar la puerta miró al anciano<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con curiosidad y con lástima.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El estuche contenía<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">unos libros encuadernados en tela roja,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un sable del ejército argentino<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de mil ochocientos setenta y dos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y un olor agridulce a tiempo y a espera.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hombre rompió el sello de lacre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Una carta fechada a principios de 1986.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hombre leyó la carta una vez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dos, veinte veces,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta que los ojos le ardieron como estrellas viejas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sacó con curiosidad el sable de la abollada vaina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">partió el aire de cuatro mandobles<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y después lo dejó como al descuido<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobre la cama de colcha remendada y limpia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Abrió uno de los libros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">leyó un par de páginas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>La puta que te parió </i>–dijo entre dientes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y el libro fue a descuajeringarse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">contra la pared forrada en pino.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El hombre se quedó mirando el libro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como quien vela a una víbora muerta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Después se agachó, lo rozó con dos dedos,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo alzó y se puso, ahí, de pie, a leer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Durante días leyó, dos veces, tres veces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sin comer y casi sin dormir<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">esos libros atragantados de palabras<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que decían nada queriendo decir todo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Después, como en un golpe de fiebre,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">las palabras se alzaron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">unas sobre otras<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">unas junto a otras<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un edificio infinito<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que lo rodeó por completo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">como aire, como mar, como tiempo:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">adelante<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">atrás<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">arriba<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">abajo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Las palabras que iban saliendo de esos libros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pesados como biblias<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">fueron tejiendo otro universo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Abrió el tercer libro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en la página ciento cuarenta y tres.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ese soneto era más torpe que otros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero lo conmovía de una manera extraña.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cerró los ojos y durmió<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y el soneto apareció en el sueño<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y le fue grabado en el alma<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con punzones de fuego.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Durante varios días más<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se quedó tumbado en el centro del edificio infinito<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en donde las palabras se unían como puentes y laberintos,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hasta que la fiebre y el hambre lo trabajaron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en su nervio más íntimo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Después, como si esa semana hubiera sido<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sólo una mala siesta,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se levantó<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">guardó los libros y el sable en el estuche,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la carta en el bolsillo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y salió a caminar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo que quedaba de Buenos Aires.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Allá afuera la ciudad era, ciertamente,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un plano de humillaciones y fracasos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cesanteado después del golpe del veintidós,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">había vivido todos esos años<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de las migajas de unas clases de contabilidad<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y los envíos erráticos de unos parientes fantasmales<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de Fray Bentos, o de algún otro lugar del Uruguay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Un hombre que revolvía unos tachos de basura<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo miró de golpe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En esa mirada azul no había nada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Tal vez porque miraban nada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ese hombre era para él un espejo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">o un borde por donde caer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Los camiones militares pasaban de tanto en tanto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cubierta la carga de muerte con pesadas lonas verdes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Tu padre nació en 1926 </span></i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–recordó que decía la carta–<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en una estancia del Uruguay.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Las familias hicieron los arreglos<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y nadie lo supo en Buenos Aires.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Madre no me dejó viajar a conocerlo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Después, los años fueron borrando esa noche<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en la que con mi cuerpo hice un hombre<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y con mi cobardía lo aborté.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En cuanto a la mujer que fue tu abuela<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sobrevivió menos que su desprecio hacia mí,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ese desprecio que todavía siento<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">frente a espejos que no puedo ver<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero que me ven.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">De vos sé que naciste<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">en mil novecientos sesenta y dos,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que, como tu padre, llevás todos mis nombres<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">menos el último,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que te recibiste de contador<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">pero de números, una manera tal vez más inofensiva
de contar.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sé también que el riguroso azar o la incierta
genética<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">te salvaron de la doble maldición de la literatura<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la ceguera.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ahora que estoy por morir<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">te escribo esta carta, la dicto:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el prudente medio siglo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que dormirá en una caja de fierro<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">me fue recomendado por María.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Cuando leas esto serás casi tan viejo como yo:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">he jugado con la idea de que te estoy salvando<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de una herencia atroz o poco recomendable:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la de ser mi único descendiente.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Pero un hombre viejo no se deja engañar<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por otro que ya es polvo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sabrás, sin dudarlo, que este juego es el mismo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que el de mis libros:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">un simulacro hecho de espejos, de sombras, y,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">valga el oxímoron,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de indoblegable cobardía.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Te dejo lo que soy:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">unas palabras dictadas en la sombra<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">unos libros inexplicablemente famosos.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Te dejo también lo que no soy:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el sable que llevaba tu tatarabuelo<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">cuando lo mataron en La Verde,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">ese símbolo de lo que no tendré jamás<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por ciego y por flojo:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la fiesta final de la espada<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el dolor acallado por un grito de coraje<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la felicidad de una muerte certera y puntual.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Leyó la carta una vez más<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y la guardó en uno de los libros.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">En la explanada, un grupo de soldados armados<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">dejaba oír esos graznidos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">con que ríen los hombres inseguros y brutales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">La fiebre lo atravesaba como ráfaga<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de arena helada.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Arrancó el sable de su vaina de óxido<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y pasó el dedo por el borde redondo e inocuo:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">el destino de esa espada no era el tajo delgado y feroz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sino el cráneo partido entre los caracoleos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de los pingos patrios.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Sintió en las manos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la quemazón de cuero<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de las riendas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y, entre las piernas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">la musculatura elocuente del animal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Alguna parte de él, a salvo todavía de la fiebre,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo hizo verse atravesando dos llanuras:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a caballo, la pampa húmeda cortada allá enfrente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">por la fusilería enemiga.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A pie, la explanada de baldosas y cemento<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sembrada de vallas y apiladas bolsas de arena o tierra,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">donde los soldados, tumbados, hablaban a gritos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">señalando al viejo loco del sable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El soneto de las letras de fuego<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">lo tomó de golpe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y le borró todas las otras cosas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">A veinte metros de los soldados<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">se detuvo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">murmuró aquellas palabras demasiado famosas:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">–<i>No me abandona </i>–dijo como escupiendo– <i>siempre estará
a mi lado.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El resto de la estrofa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">le hirvió en el bajo vientre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR"> </span><span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y le subió hasta la boca.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">El aullido de coraje fue como un empujón<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que se lo llevó para siempre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Levantó el sable<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y cargó contra el borrón verde de los soldados,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">que, riendo, lo dejaron venir<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">y lo derribaron, entre todos, a culatazos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Ahí abajo, lo patearon y lo escupieron.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">Después un sargento,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">de apellido Suárez, para más datos,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">sacó la pistola y,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">casi con desdén,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">hizo fuego.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-AR" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: Caslon540BT; mso-fareast-font-family: Caslon540BT;">a <i>J. I. F. L. Borges<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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