<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font size="4" face="Palatino" class="">Gone Wrong<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">The moon peers <br class="">from among the olive branches, <br class="">rises over the nearby hill <br class="">where the shameful happenings <br class="">took place a good while back. <br class="">Bluntly speaking, <br class="">he should have married, had a family, <br class="">practiced his honest craft,<br class="">made something of himself. <br class="">A handsome fellow and bright, <br class="">a prodigy, some say, <br class="">a mere boy he presumed <br class="">to discuss with scholars. <br class="">But a young man still he went off <br class="">on some vision quest or lost himself, <br class="">for all we know, in the anonymity of the city.<br class="">He liked a good time and at a party once <br class="">managed to find wine where there was none <br class="">setting some tongues to tell tall tales about it. <br class="">He would gather folk on some small hill<br class="">and talk to them — rabble rouse, if you will.<br class="">Once, he messed with the bankers <br class="">and sellers of pigeons and small sheep <br class="">in the holy-house. For what? <br class="">The exchange booths and animal stalls <br class="">were back up the next day. <br class="">It just upset the authorities, <br class="">and look how he ended up —<br class=""> stretched out and hanging.<br class=""> And things not changed a pip.<br class=""> <br class=""><br class=""></font><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Rafael Jesús González </span><div class=""><font size="4" face="Palatino" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">Desviado</span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">La luna asoma </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">por entre las ramas de los olivos, </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">sube sobre la cercana loma </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">donde los vergonzosos sucesos </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">ocurrieron hace ya un buen tiempo. </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">Hablando sin pelos en la lengua,</span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">debía haberse casado, tenido familia, </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">practicado su honesta artesanía,</span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">haber hecho algo de si mismo. </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">Un tipo guapo y listo, </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">prodigio, dicen algunos, </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">de mero muchachito presumía </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">discutir con sabios. </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">Pero aun joven salió </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">en alguna búsqueda de visiones o se perdió, </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">vaya a saber, en la anonimia de la ciudad. </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">Le gustaba la juerga y en una fiesta una vez </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">logró encontrar vino donde no lo había </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">causando lenguas contar chismes exagerados.</span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">Recogía gente en alguna colina </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">y les hablaba — revolvía la plebe, si gusta.</span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">Una vez se metió con los banqueros </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">y vendedores de palomas y borreguitos </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">en la casa santa. ¿Para qué? </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">Las casillas de cambio y puestos de animales </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">estaban allí al día siguiente. </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">Nada mas disgustó a las autoridades </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class="">y mire como paró — </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class=""> -estirado y colgando. </span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: large;" class=""> Y las cosas sin cambiar una pepita.</span><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><br style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span style="font-family: Palatino;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Rafael Jesús González </span></div></div></div></body></html>