Friday night. A quarter to nine or so.
get down to empty the garbage and I see a car stop. Beyond the road. Straddling the sidewalk.
Inside there is none. I look better. There are some. It 's a shrunken old man sitting in the back seat. It looks like a mannequin. A mannequin with no arms who is about to be thrown out. The car is a Opel Kadett. I wonder how I came to recognize it. I do not know, but I'm sure it is an Opel Kadett . Of gray. A gray made from the dark night.
let go of the bag and rest stop at the gate ajar. I look up the house lights on. The mirage of a sofa through my mind. Then I return the car. Man, if a man is still there. I wonder what the exact meaning of the word help. If still worth something to me. Then I turned and briskly through the deserted road.
No. Deserted not. The passage of a cat surprises me on the right. Slips on the pavement, scale a high fence of bricks and not see him again.
Now the Opel Kadett in front of me. A few steps away. The old does not seem to have seen me. E 'property. Something is covering his head. A hat. No. A cap. A cap from which sprout a nose and two lips clearly tightened. It 's a bathrobe? No. It 's a habit. A dark cloak that goes down along the body. I stand on the sidewalk. The cold air stings my feet. Slippers and socks are not enough. Should I get closer. Tour around the car. One, two times. Man's gaze is fixed into the unknown. And the unknown is a dead end between the light fields. I look to the house. E 'close, but I feel a thousand miles away. The light is still on. Waiting for me. I knock at the window. I hear the sound of bone against the glass. Busso stronger. Of even more. I pull the door handle. E 'is closed, as all the others. The old man is locked inside.
The word "help" is pumping through my temples. The heart beats trying rhythms unknown. I leave the pavement and back across the street. A small step, but quick as those of the cat. I look up at home. The light is turned on and off before my eyes. Then something lifts me up. I feel nothing. Slammed to the ground between the trash. Raining glass and smoldering shreds. Stars. No.
"Help".
"Help".
Or the meaning of the word help.
"Help".
"Help".
Or the meaning of the word help.
help
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1 rescue operations or assistance to those in difficulty or danger: a. material and moral, ask, ask, call a. someone, in the. someone, give, give, give a., a a. to someone, run, come in. someone, does not want help from anyone
‖ action helpers: a a. decisive
‖ A collection of material resources provided to those who are in a state of great need: food aid, cash
‖ What that brings relief, comfort, I need a small a.
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