I thought I had been born to bother others and now I am going to think I am loved because I am different
and because you are ugly Valentina and also because you are ugly
don’t you want me to feel beautiful because of you?
no Valentina feel ugly so I can adore you for what nobody else would dare to tell you
I am ugly Jesús
ugly ugly ugly you’re my perversion and my longed-for adventure an unforeseen love first give me a minute Valentina then let me spend the night with you then my whole life
ugly
offer me to your soul Valentina and I will give you mine
whom shall I tell that I love you?
whom, that we love each other?
3. Everyone withdrew after dinner. Only Valentina remained in the living room. Only for her the night had not ended.
Then he comes in.
Everyone has gone. They have all hidden themselves away to gossip.
Except Valentina still waiting for the sight that is the attraction: Jesús Aníbal.
His eyes tell her, “I want to find you alone again.”
Only they look at each other.
The others try to avoid others’ eyes.
She knows how a protective attraction is being transformed into a physical attraction.
She returns to her first moment with Jesús Aníbal.
She ignores everyone else.
She does not listen to the gossip.
The pretty woman desires the ugly woman’s luck.
It seems a travesty.
Only a blind man would marry her.
It happens in the best of families.
And Ana Fernanda to Jesús Aníbaclass="underline" “You traded me for that scare crow? I don’t have to pretend to despise you. But you are my husband in the eyes of God and man. I will never leave you. I will never give you a divorce. Get used to the idea. Dare to tell me I have done something wrong. Tell me something. Did you choose her because of your immense vanity, so you would know you are better-looking than she is? Because you could not stand being less good-looking than me, your wife? It was an unlucky day that we fixed up the house.”
The relatives left.
Doña Piedita took to her bed, preparing, in her words, to go to “the hacienda in the sky.”
Ana Fernanda did not invite anyone again and dedicated herself to bringing up her daughter, Luisa Fernanda, in accordance with the strictest Catholic morality.
either you pay or we kill you
they say she was a very good student a good daughter she had
a boyfriend and everything they skated together they went on the ferris
wheel the merry-go-round the octopus
the fair smelled of muégano candy and popcorn peanuts cotton candy
sticky sodas
the wheel turned and her boyfriend took advantage of the girl’s fear
to put his arms around her and tell her if you don’t kiss me I’ll throw you
out and to please him she opened his fly and
there were sticky candies there too
who pays for the fair?
don’t they pay you for Sunday?
I don’t have enough
oh well then find another cheaper boyfriend
don’tsqueezeit
mayyourotthere
what would happen to me without the fair on saturdays or without the sodas
the popcorn the tamales
how will you pay for the fair without money
wait for me love I’ll invite you to the fair don’t rush
put a hundred clips of drugs in your knapsack
you’ll sell them when school lets out
we’ll give you a hundred pesos for every hundred clips you sell and you’ll