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Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
The Ferris wheel has emptied out
“Where the hell is Pajarito?!”
Rolling over will be a mammoth task.
The Tamais had married young
Oscar Tamai came to the town
Pajarito coughs
“Are you still there, Dad?”
“And what are you going to call him?”
Estela and Celina just missed each other
He can’t bring himself to ask
Not long after Pajarito was born
Elvio Miranda came from a brickmaking family.
Night’s closing in
Oscar Tamai began making bricks
Some months after they became neighbors
When he left his neighbor’s place
Pajarito remembers.
After her foray to the Tamais
Celina always stayed out
The Mirandas’ finances
Marciano lifts one arm
That morning
Estela, in tears
When Celina saw Tamai approaching
Listen, Pájaro, listen.
Marciano used to sit outside
After the fight with Miranda
Elvio Miranda’s murder
The morning after Miranda’s murder
Marciano got his first baby sibling
Three hours after going into the office
When Tamai left the police station
Pajarito can feel the shutters coming down.
“Dad …”
After burying Miranda
Celina didn’t dare go to Miranda’s vigil.
The second night without Miranda
When a few days had passed
There was a time
After his father introduced him to the others
When Estela told her husband
In third grade
His dad is gone.
That day when he got up
It’s the music and the voices
The cumbia’s cranked to the max
He must be nearing the end.
It wouldn’t be the first time
That week Pájaro worked nonstop
He was shit-faced last night.
In his room
The sound of boots
Three Saturdays he steered clear
It was Luján who went and told Marciano.
The boot embroidered with sequins
You look like a stud
In his room
He would’ve liked the final scene
Pájaro felt
The police car pulls up slowly and stops.
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