“When they least expect we provoke an accident. We could invoke the Blessed Virgin Mary, in either of her forms, it’s all the same.
If even divinity is schizophrenic, dare you not imagine the little pieces of fresh meat walking around, tempting fragile hearts in this Earth. At least the Virgin was decent enough to let us somehow know that she’s the one and all of them. But my ironies are never understood anyway… Who knows, maybe the Virgin would get them? Too bad she doesn’t answer me. She could appear, in a dream or whatever, for us to have a coffee, liquor, keep up with the news. But the saint isn’t a fool, she might be on vacation, and she knows very well (if she listens to all my wishes, how we suppose she does) that I’m going to give her a lot of work. Oh, my holy Virgin Mary… “
Many voices have been speaking recently. The one above shouted last night, in another language you couldn’t possibly get the hang of. That voice was nothing but a hand with a knife; violence was bubbling through. Oh, and there was a face, you could barely tell if it was a man or a woman, you could just feel the evil urge, the psychotic smile gaining shape in those lips. The intentions were an accident. Now that you read about knife and psychos, I must clear that by accident I don’t mean murder. Accidents vary a lot. There are the kinds that appear in an exclamation of the sort “oh, what a surprise! What are you doing around here at this time?”, as well as more intense ones, in which whores find out they have a heart alive and beating inside, and realize they’re taken. The latter is the one she wanted to cause. She? We better conclude the voice was female. It’s too bittersweet, afterwards, and how much bittersweet can you get if you’re not a woman? Bittersweetness is a gift to women. She was a she. Might have had the voracity of a he, maybe. But getting back to the accident.
She was violent, then, last night. Her mind was so blood-red that you could easily fish words like “stabbing” and “drop of blood” in her speech. Metaphors, metaphors… but very well used metaphors.
I can’t recall in which moment she asked for my advice, but she did. We were probably sleeping, we sleep in the same head (and our home-head has many other tenants, so it’s hard to find who’s who sometimes).
“How should you provoke that accident? Should you?”
I thought for a little longer, and concluded that it’s no harm if it’s done naturally. Or I’m probably lying, and what I want for real is to see the victims lying on the floor… in the bed, wherever. Dirty minds, eh? Human, I tell you. Isn’t it the most human thing to do, to stop by in the middle of the street if someone had just passed out? The huge majority won’t help, they’ll just watch, amuse themselves. It might be amusing really, because it’s instigating unusual emotions. But then they’ll go home and tell their family, and in a few days they’ll forget about it…
“Yes, go ahead!”
I got hooked in the thought that she is a talented poetic voice, and she can dress very well. The words, I mean. She can dress words.
“You can use the enemy’s gun in your favor, you study the same art.”
She sounded excited about it, but I could feel a little fear of looking foolish.
“Do it as if nobody is looking, then.”
She left - excited, I could tell - she’s off to shower now. Some purification, some music, and a snack afterwards. She’s a talented little poetic voice, I tell you. And she’s master in the art of provoking accidents, just that she never really noticed…