Stories of Paraná - No more Polish? (II)

Stories of Paraná - No more Polish? (II)

No more Polish? (II)
Wilson Bueno

Polacada!
Niggers!
Loved to hate - regulars, each other, sometimes more, sometimes less, to touch the rope of a varied understanding.
And we were pushing each of your hand, life girl.
Children, others felt the skin stretches.
The news came panting, almost choking on his face red Gordo:
- The Lau died, died Mieceslaw picnic Barigüi.
And as we wanted more, fulminated:
- The Lau drowned.
Were accomplices, all of
cause of death: ran the street and was subject in the houses of the village, beating almost all carry, and the same evening fallen because a week before, had been the victim Lau nervous baptism in the waters of the same Barigüi now killed him.
Denounced, all eyes chased us.
And death Lau was dead. Death was also a room with the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa, one familiar object that it was left after removal of the furniture and arranged against the wall, the wicker chairs.
In the center of the room, the death was also a coffin that our eyes avoided.
- Polacada!
- Niggers!
The death hurt in the morning sun. Death was our first public sin.
In envergonhávamos and we suffered, accomplices, all sinks street - humiliated the event.
Necessary to conform - others, also Polish, they would succeed Mieceslaw, especially the older brother,
groom, who played harmonica-of-mouth and had muscles horse.
Renewed up however the question: how could these beings be Brazilian white, cold and cloaked,
of yellow hair and light eyes, stumbling tongue scrambled?
But were: at Mass and weddings, small difficulties in day-to-day, and in the bargain circus
in large drinking and wakes.
But what remains is death grounded on the morning of the new city, the dark room and heavy heart:
- Polacada!
- Niggers!

Wilson Bueno is a writer, creator and editor of the journal Cultural "Nicholas".


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.