NOWHERE - at the fire station

at the fire station

And so, after some hours walking along a series of provincial roads, surrounded by small forests and some kind of agricultural semi-destroyed houses, when the night comes, I find myself in front of some kind of fire brigade building, and, this is, surprisingly, there are lights inside, thus, I decide to try my luck, and so, there I go, already pulling a cordón that makes a serie of bells ring inside, and, in a while, some guys are already coming to see me at the gate, this is, some guys with many eyes on the face but no mouth, actually dressed as firemen. And, so, here they stand now, looking at me with their many eyes, intrigued, and, further, as it goes, I say something, this is, I make some signs with my hands, but, it looks that they understand nothing from the message, this is, they just giggle, and so, after a while, they are already bringging a bigger man with them at the door, and, despite this one having a big mouth just under his nose, he also doesn't speak, this is, he just babbles some sounds, but actually, as it goes, we manage to read each other's mind, and so, by now, he’s actually asking from where am I coming, and so, I manage to tell him that, actually, I’m coming from the Tauramataras, this is, a extinguished country now submerged under water. And he, well, surprisingly, yes, tells me that he know very well where that country is, and so, while we establish this kind of communication, those guys, I mean the small soldiers that before came to the door, here they stay, on our side, looking at us with their many eyes, this is, apparently amazed and bewildered at the same time, and then, there they go, opening their way to me in order to make me get in their palace, actually a huge pavilion with corrugated metal walls. And so, here I’m now, getting inside this large living-room decorated with ancient fire tools and big photos, like puzzles, of the moustached men that used to fight the fires. Therefore, instantly, they make me sit on a big table, and they bring me food, drinks, soucoupes with grains, strange fruits, desserts, and I eat this and that, and while I eat, here they are, staring at me, munching, and the bigger man, the only one with mouth is also here, in the middle of them, and, he talks with them through his hands, and then, his voice comes inside my mind again, this is, he tells me that they are asking him who I am and what am I doing here. And so, I ask him to tell them that I’m some kind old-fashioned messenger, that is, I carry messages from country to country, between different worlds, from the past to the future and from the future to the past. And the soldiers, intrigued with my exposing, now want to know more about these messages, but I say that all these messages are secret messages, I can’t expose it like that, nevertheless, maybe I could give some personalized advice to each of them, and, then, as the transmissions man passes this comment down, I see their eyes getting bigger, rolling around their face, And so, in a while, we are already moving into a small room, this is, just me and the transmissions man, that will translate my messages to them, and, after saying my preys, I start to receive each one, individually, and thus, as it goes, to the first one that comes by, my advice is “You should completely change your life, leave your skin, leave yourself, leave this palace, coz danger will be coming soon.” And to the next one I say “Do not worry no more about what others may think or not think about yourself, do it as you please”. And to the next one I suggested “Be less arrogant with yourself and with the others around, and you will be loved again”. And to the fourth I say, “Go and look for God”. And the fifth, “Study the water and the sky” I say. And to the sixth I suggest “Pay more attention to your dreams, and you will see what is missing…” And to the seventh “The only true love is the love at first sight” I say. And to the eighth, I write a message on a piece of paper and ask him to eat it in order to understand its meaning. And to the ninth, “Stop eating bullshit” I say. And to the tenth I counseled some good black and white movies, like Tarkovsky, Bergman, Polanski. And in this fashion I followed, receiving one after another, and then, at some point, it was over, I have received and given advice to everybody, and so, it was time to go up, into the bedrooms area, this is, bedrooms with bunk beds, where some other guys were already sleeping, and, thus, as we get in, the transmissions man just tells me that, I can choose my bed, my bunk, reinforcing that, I can choose to lay on a top bed or on the bottom one, it doesn't matter, as I prefer, and of course, I chose one of the top beds, because… And, as I choose my place, he passes me a towel and tells me where the shower room is. And so, there I go, with my new towel under the arm, moving into the shower room. But, once there, it’s very difficult to regulate the temperature of water, even so, after a while, I manage do it, this is, now I do not want to leave, I want to stay here forever, thinking about life, thinking about what am I doing here, thinking about all this quaint people I have met here, thinking about where should I go, and then, as usual, thinking about that desert from where I came, the sky falling over the dunes, and me being absorbed by all that digital machinery. And then I wake up, and there I go, coming back to my bunk, this is, I put some pajamas, that was already there, waiting for me, and, I try to sleep, but, I can't, can’t coz there are some other guys whispering things in the the beds around, this is, I thought that they couldn't talk, but now… as I hear them, I remember that times I have passed in that encampment under the bridge, this is, I remember the black brothers whispering non sense things all night, while sticking syringes into their arms, and then I sleep. And, while I sleep, I’m having this dream. This is, in this dream I see myself walking on the side of the sea, this is, I go through many kind of beaches, all deserted, I pass a series of cliffs, and then more beaches again, this is, I walk day and night burying myself deeper and deeper into the sand, until that, there, far away, I see some figures in between some rocks, and so, as I approach it, I already can see that they are human-like beings, this is, fishermen, and so, there they are, around a mesh of fishing networks, slowly, uniting threads, cutting threads, making knots, attaching little pieces of (what looked like gemstones) to some parts of the tangle. And so, as I come by, they do as they are not aware of my presence, this is, they just keep working on it in silence, this until that, one of them (with naked trunk and shorts – like all others) looks to me from head to feet and says something I can really understand, and then, all the others laugh, and as it goes, in the meanwhile, I also start to help them in this job of fixing up the networks, and then, later, at the end of the day, he would take this huge networks inside the small barges moored further down, onsome kind of bay, and as the night comes by, there we go, and while throwing the networks on the waters, we woud sing all together, songs of redemption.