TE19 Iberian Adventure

Gonçalo M. Tavares

Nurses have again been insulted and invited to leave the buildings where they lived.

A woman speeds up on the street and says she isn’t afraid, just in a hurry.

An old man walks past two lads and starts to insult them because they said he shouldn’t be leaving the house.

I wander through the lovely Dante translation by the Brazilian Cristiano Martins – and then I go to look at the sea. Shulan is the new Wuhan. “Nobody goes in or out of the quarantined region”.

Tattoo artists also want to know when they can resume their activities.

What you’ve got tattooed on your skin should first be analysed by the government who are alert to what you do.

And also alert to your beautiful, tattooed skin, obviously.

Imagining aperverse, excited committeemonitoring each human tattoo in these months of a sudden commotion to average normal democracy.

You’re the ones who should never have come out of your mothers’ bellies, says the old man to the two small adolescents.

Instructions are needed to operate babies who have not yet reached the first A of the ABC. 134