LAST WEEK'S ASSIGNMENT
Four heavenly bodies
Four heavenly bodies
I rejoice in my memories sitting here, while outside that soft breeze from another autumn morning blows.
I look at it from outside:
And I always have the impression that this bar bevels those of us who spend more than two hours every night, here, when the streets are so empty!
We come from our hotel room, a few blocks down, and then we come back...

The water should start to come out cold, as the waiter's hands make quick gestures to speed up the cleaning of the last cups of coffee.
I always think he didn't realize that it is better to leave them floating in that strange lagoon, drawing bubbles, floating among those grayish lights that the night dims. There the cups emerge like people in the city at this time of night when loneliness, volume and distances are reduced.
Many times I thought I had some property in this corner, because I feel so good sitting here, with my coffee cup, my short cigarette and you, there! in red, always with a word in your voice, your kind gestures with your hands.
Now, today, what is more than four o'clock in the morning, we look quietly at the waiter cleaning the flooded glasses, so lonely, in that bubbling raft of water, as hesitant and serene as we are, waiting for a lonely next day, which in fact is already, and perhaps a little restrained. The same four of us who were there yesterday or last Saturday at this time.
Sometimes, that quiet man across the street, who also comes every night, greets us, as he turns the glass, or the coffee cup, looking for its best position to drink it, and keeps staring at the wet glow of the freshly washed glasses.
No, there won't be any left!
Talking to yourself at this time of day is a way to stay awake and prepare for the intimacy of your pillow.
And our day is coming to an end, which goes back in hours to the next, leaving us spaces of urban solitude, of that which we need around us to feel our presence, and to put distance between things and us. Let us see them, and they see us!
..eah!
It's been a few years since you and I have made the same journey, and we don't let our solitude leave us in this famous, recently painted, sky-blue lit, isolated from the world.
My solitude next to yours turns this floating bar into a sky, and us into heavenly bodies.
And even the exit is as if it were far away, inaccessible, sealed off.
Nothing invites us to leave!
THIS WEEK'S ASSIGNMENT
Four heavenly bodies
I rejoice in my memories this autumn morning, from our hotel, and outside, in the empty streets, to here.
And now...!
..Ah!
I feel that this bar bevels us during these two dear hours, which we spend every night, here.
The water must be cold!
The nimble hands and quick gestures of the bartender, over the last used coffee cups.
I think for him!
He would leave the glasses in that strange lagoon all night long, among the tense lights, in his diminished solitude and the scarce distances, which make them float.
....
Something in this corner belongs to me, it makes me feel good, sitting here.
Coffee, short cigarettes, . . . you! with your voice and your kind gestures. Always!
It's past four in the morning.
The quiet waiter.
The waterlogged glasses, lonely
The hesitant water bubbles.
We serenely wait for a lonely next day, which is already.
... We are the same, four, as every day, at the same time.
That quiet man who greets us and turns the glass or the coffee cup, looking for his positions, and also looks at the wet glow of the freshly washed glasses.
There won't be anything left!
Talking alone keeps me awake.
I think about the intimacy of the pillow.
Hours of another day, today.
Urban solitudes, without things, without volume and distant from each other.
...eah!
In this chamfer, always as if freshly painted, lit up in the sky, in which for years we have abandoned our solitude, to be a world.
Yours next to mine is this floating bar
Yes, another one!
It's late!
The exit is far away, it seems inaccessible and watertight.
Nothing invites us to leave!
LAST WEEK'S ASSIGNMENT
SPANISH VERSION
Cuatro cuerpos celestes.
Me regocijo mirando en mis recuerdos esta madrugada de otoño, desde nuestro hotel, y fuera, en las calles vacías, hasta aquí.
Y ahora...!
..Ah!
Siento que este bar nos bisela durante estas dos horas queridas, que pasamos cada noche, aquí.
¡ El agua debe de estar fría!
La manos ágiles y los gestos rápidos del camarero ,sobre las últimas tazas de café, usadas.
Pienso por él!
Dejaría los vasos en esa rara laguna toda la noche, entre las tenas luces, en su aminorada soledad y las escasas distancias, que los hacen flotar.
....
Algo de este rincón me pertenece, me deja sentirme bien, aquí sentado.
Café, cigarrillos cortos, ..¡ tú! con tu voz y tus gestos amables. Siempre!
Son más de las cuatro de la madrugada.
El camarero callado.
Los anegados vasos, solitarios
Las burbujas de agua vacilantes.
Nosotros serenos, a la espera de un solitario día siguiente, que ya es.
... Somos los mismos, cuatro, como cada día, a la misma hora.
Ese callado hombre que nos saluda y gira el vaso o la taza de café, buscando sus posiciones, y también mira el brillo húmedo de los vasos recién lavados.
¡No va a quedar nada!
Hablar solo me mantiene despierto.
Pienso en la intimidad de la almohada.
Horas de otro día, hoy.
Solitudes urbanas, sin cosas, sin volumen y distantes entre ellas.
...eah!
En este chaflán, siempre como recién pintado, iluminado en celeste, en el que desde hace años abandonamos nuestra soledad, para se un mundo.
El tuyo al lado del mío, es este bar flotante
¡ Sí, otro!
¡ Es tarde!
La salida está alejada, parece inaccesible y hermética.
¡Nada nos invita a irnos!
THIS WEEK'S ASSIGNMENT
SPANISH VERSION
Cuatro cuerpos celestes.
Me regocijo mirando en mis recuerdos esta madrugada de otoño, desde nuestro hotel, y fuera, en las calles vacías, hasta aquí.
Y ahora...!
..Ah!
Siento que este bar nos bisela durante estas dos horas queridas, que pasamos cada noche, aquí.
¡ El agua debe de estar fría!
La manos ágiles y los gestos rápidos del camarero ,sobre las últimas tazas de café, usadas.
Pienso por él!
Dejaría los vasos en esa rara laguna toda la noche, entre las tenas luces, en su aminorada soledad y las escasas distancias, que los hacen flotar.
....
Algo de este rincón me pertenece, me deja sentirme bien, aquí sentado.
Café, cigarrillos cortos, ..¡ tú! con tu voz y tus gestos amables. Siempre!
Son más de las cuatro de la madrugada.
El camarero callado.
Los anegados vasos, solitarios
Las burbujas de agua vacilantes.
Nosotros serenos, a la espera de un solitario día siguiente, que ya es.
... Somos los mismos, cuatro, como cada día, a la misma hora.
Ese callado hombre que nos saluda y gira el vaso o la taza de café, buscando sus posiciones, y también mira el brillo húmedo de los vasos recién lavados.
¡No va a quedar nada!
Hablar solo me mantiene despierto.
Pienso en la intimidad de la almohada.
Horas de otro día, hoy.
Solitudes urbanas, sin cosas, sin volumen y distantes entre ellas.
...eah!
En este chaflán, siempre como recién pintado, iluminado en celeste, en el que desde hace años abandonamos nuestra soledad, para se un mundo.
El tuyo al lado del mío, es este bar flotante
¡ Sí, otro!
¡ Es tarde!
La salida está alejada, parece inaccesible y hermética.
¡Nada nos invita a irnos!

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