First’s chapter.

I understand it but I don’t know if I can prove it.

There are many kinds of begging, there are those who really do not have the strength and resources to fend for themselves, those are obvious, perhaps, they are too old age or have an amazing physical condition and then in that passage are the shameless, those who are not shy about begging, they pretend to be unfortunate and probably eat better than you and me; Now if I go deep into it, you must have the strength to go begging on the sidewalk or when going to kick streets.

Enters more sociable, charity, and equal to the previous division crumbles, but I cannot say whether within those generous foundations as a piggybanks, really, life proceeds to the needy and certainly get n to your hands, because my ears hurt listening to the certainties of those who do not; helps not only going to bipeds, there are those engaged in quadrupeds save endangered species, preserve large hectares of forests or to rescue a single tree whose age is more than five hundred years chaining the body to the trunk of the piece of history; flourishing valued highly and that causes coins to throw these piggybank s institutional is.

It is difficult to accept that they see your idiot face since then you see them in neat print outside the place where they scammed you, then humanitarian action hardens and the next time you see them, you yell at them – go to work, I’m seventy years old and still still refusing to retirement – the ruse hurt feelings and ices, now, of both how to by one we all pay, while not know if this should go well for that drag defensive to the perceived threats.

Edison was not always a beggar, he worked for the Fundation Abejitas Miel de Azúcar or FAMA, home of homeless children, once every twelve months they organized collects, a type of collection, commendable, the volunteers were people of reputation, they used patterned shirts justifying asking for money and in return gave tickets rewarded sponsored by companies much more respected, we know first, second and third place, the lies problems that car it won the niece of the coordinator, the other prizes not out of it and perimeter, amalgamating other very large private and splendid donations ; At the moment they gave away very modern computers, they were supposed to be replacing the old ones that barely turned on and you had to take turns to be able to use them… well let’s say those presents never got where they should go.

In the advancement of the news stellar Edison smelled difficulties – we interrupt regular programming to give information last time, the famous collects transmitted telephone charity Channel 5 last Sunday Association of Cancer Prevention Luis Figueroa Hamilton has proven to be a fraud In total, it has been discovered because of the state measures in the modification of the Law of Taxes on Donations, because these institutions were free of audits or inspections ; Money laundering is also stipulated, raising the controversial carpet of whether these humanitarian gestures are nothing more than patches to evade taxes to the national government, let’s see what its founder Luis Figueroa Hamilton has said about it –

– They have set me a trap; I am an honest person…

– From where sack to buy a mansion luxury Miami? Would ask n to Unison reporter s – Can you justify their high incomes? Will you return what was stolen or wait for it to be seized?

– That’s inheritance; ask my lawyer – what audacity! Edison Lezama reprimanded interrelated

– Will there be other dirty foundations apart from…?

– The one with profuse pollen are those sugared honey bees, nothing to do with my innocence pure – calculation was h prays to introduce the letter of renunciation

He was summoned first thing in the morning to the central offices, the one who owes nothing and fears nothing, attended and if he had to testify, he declared. He was one of those employees planted with false evidence.

– We found part of the assets in the residence of Mr. Lezama Castro, Lieutenant.

– Guillen! Say that I have nothing to do with this; I was only a teacher -he said sadly-

– I can do nothing…

– Son of…! -He won some good blows from the vigilantes-

Fortunately or unfortunately, if he was released, his godfather was that lieutenant, he noticed several topics.

– L or regret, have to stay a while in the shadows, your picture goes all over the news and you have opened a file rather exaggerated, you know you always bait is sought as corrupt go with their suitcases finding pardons among other similar to them… go away, it ‘s the most I can do for you.

– It means, the most fool falls… move your power and save an innocent.

– Watch out! Do not make me regret taking your freedom.

– Let me go and also tell the truth.

– I’m sorry boy but I was afraid it is not possible. You go but you know, low key.

– D and what will I live if I am requested by the authorities?

– Calls… Beggar…

– For how long?

– Thirty, forty years or as soon as people forget who you are…

The landlady had seen the chronicles, she had to wait to go to bed to sneak in, saying goodbye to her normal life, still regretting the idea of ​​living on the street. Where was a transcendent question ; I grab everything I need, a bar of soap without having a shower, toilet paper, squatting in the bushes, toothbrush because I would use any tap, all the canned goods in the pantry, coat and bottle of water. The castaways are less crowded as nature provides what is necessary.

Before falling into misery, you start by stealing strangers, darkness fell and not all public lighting poles fulfill their function, that scares you, discovering you get used to or leave the television on until you fall asleep, I wanted to lie down on a shabby cot even if it was in a seedy motel those who do not ask for details or registration s.

– Hands up – I take out the tickets that I was counting cautiously at the tram stop-

– I have a wife and children – I intimidated him with the cold edge of a lemon squeeze – you will pay dearly, it is my mother-in-law’s medicine…

– Nobody wants those dangerous insects…

– I do love her…

– Why?

– From there came my wife and children… –he left speaks alone-

At the moment he had a roof over his head, in desperation, macabre attempts are crossed, among them to kill the clerk, the plan is passed by clenching his fists; that bald man left the few hairs on the sides of his head long, combing them to the opposite side where there was nothing, his fault was having a horrible hairstyle, not his bad omen.

S and test told by the sponsor; He attended an interview everything was fine, the delay was busy with the swing of the pendulum Newton, that was until he heard about abnormal murmurs, those sounds were asking to remain calm and return to the room controls nerves ; using the chair jam the trespassing; Luckily he went up a floor ; I manage to get out through the window and the police patrol was parked there, he went over to listen to the radio.

– Proceed with caution, dangerous subject, change… citizen 3,035,544, proceed with caution, change and go…

He wasn’t dangerous; out of rage I ripped off the patrol radio and ended up dumping it in a trash can a few blocks ahead. He was armed because he checked the glove compartment of the car, he asked the heavens – everything except ask, everything but that – at present he thought asking was horrible and it was much worse having the strength to even be a street sweeper.

I stop defending his godfather in the court of conscience, that crappy creep and smelly licks boots, he prefers credit to modesty; I review his stupidity, if it is so simple to mutate the files of those files, if it is so easy to ask for coins, why he doesn’t do it. Then he would be a pioneer of copper charity, forced the entrance of the house pampering Nero, the key was hidden in his necklace.

Asking without consulting, it was not protective, you see they paid him ten thousand to sink it and of course, more than half had already run out, that served to cover enough rents and when buying large canned goods.

One is concerned with eating and dressing, not in the manner of animals, they eat for miles or devour each other; it is truly distressing to have and not to have.

Second chapter.

If I dare to ask, how do I ask?

In piñaterias apart from candy and toys for party favors they sell masks, Lezama was not looking for just any mask.

– Good morning Confitería Rubios, how can we help you?

– I am looking for an old man’s mask, very realistic, because I have a very joking friend and he gave me a tremendous scare when he dressed as the deceased.

I also study the colors of the walking sticks, white is for the blind, white-red is for the deaf blind, green is low vision, yellow is a substitute; It was not convenient for him to be extremely blind, deaf or mute, however, to shine frail, there is another kind of beggar, that lanky old man who barely gets some coins and demands them accordingly.

“A little help for the love of God, a little help for the love of God,” he repeated.

– You don’t need them, old man – he shone, snatching the metal cup – to see how much there is here, five, six… – In the absence of expensive spray’s, vinegar on the cornea – oh! Oh! –He repeated in pain, enough time to remove the foreign and return it to the defenseless character-

– Have colleague… everything complete…

– My can of peas – I whistle for a while – you’re beardless…

– Can you see?

– I understand with my other senses why you ask as a boy, having the strength to walk, run and climb steep stairs?

– It’s difficult to expose – he kept trying to imitate the voice of an octogenarian-

– What about that splint?

– See if you can see.

– When you approached it I felt it with my cane. Explain then…

– I am requested, they tricked me and I must live on charity – I speak softly-

– It wasn’t that laborious, huh? I expose you this is my area, two lepers nearby repel cockroaches and their leftovers…

– Even if it is, be grateful…

– A talking leisurely e s plausible be a day like me, the heavy money is hidden in the soles of shoes or under the hat… a little help for the love of god…

The eighties costume went down the drain, constant thefts, few donations and people for some reason hate older people without realizing sooner or later they will be themselves. The key keeper at the reception had a wheelchair.

– Good afternoon, I apologize for the annoyance of seeing another one asking for money with the heat in the wagon, I swallow my pride – he dramatized while sobbing – my alternatives are already exhausted and I urgently need this treatment – he acted waving the false receipts – Which is to calm the pain in my leg, gentlemen, you will not mind but I was run over by an unfortunate blind man when crossing the pedestrian grating and in my low beam, that’s how we live, in this dirty society – he raised his voice full of courage- I ask for the cash because of the painkillers, I have not slept for months, what I do is cry out for help, without regret I ask you what you can give me, it will be received with the blessing of God, that I pay it and multiply it, say amen.

If you noticed it, they always mention a creator, there is no fear of the higher or that divine entity does not exist outright, it is hard to read it and think about it, without mixing more, there is no immediate justice. There is no adjoining love, there are hardly any crumbs left that fall to the ground for the little dogs.

In particular higher profits gave the vision to blindness, if they tried squealed snuggled physical woes and defended. He found out the perfect combination without armed disguises, pitiful speech and practical change to the common person, he did not want sequel or colostomy bags to obstruct the stool; In bars, shopping malls and those beautiful things, they block the entrance to the stinking people, it is crowded they see them as a human being of little fortune, without seeing we all stink, some of them stink reason, the modality and a few others the style.

I say all because nobody opens the gate to the homeless, he will have ended up that way because of madness or because of addictions, well, he asked for it; as a child invite entering a cans collected sir, they are changed in factories for a trifle, was halfway through the porch and Mom ran to upset most, my name is crazy and I forbade strict unlock the lock to strangers, I still obeying to respect. My brother says he wanted to abuse me, I don’t know, I vaguely remember the scare ; In this he should interfere with the divinities by thanking the protection or that man wanted a piece of bread, steal, leave or both; here I put a brake on my imagination.

Many are so drugged that they are capable of reacting erratically, showing the contents of their pants or their top – How did it end up like this? – the common question of the spectators, if it is a circus woman. I suppose those narcotics alleviate that walking agony, some will be with cigarettes, another will mix hallucinogens, erase the burning reality.

In the midst of these portals you reach countless spaces, excesses, liking yourself drunk clouds your understanding and reaching the top you go down under a bridge as a new home.

Are merciful and, leftovers thrown to the spindly canes, we said; I proudly expose one of those was my mother, sometimes she gave a wheat flour to the alcoholics on the corner. Once I bought sweet bread stuffed with guava, I gave a piece to that woman who claims to be God-fearing and a devout practitioner, in addition, she demanded that I give her from the center because without fill that offering was worth nothing, she forgot that on horseback she was given the tusk is not looked at ; even I claim that my mother had learned nothing, because I saw eat and I did not give him that tempting her having the resources to beat the craving for enjoying pension and of bountiful grandchildren that they give wallets, sandals, walks and What is required by is a poisonous mouth. One that when he died my esteemed parent or approach in regard condolences but although attended that day and that hour to a biblical meeting house Alejandra enjoying the soup, snacks and the inevitable characterizations biblical s, Ruth, Naomi, Esther and others, then I remember this young brash in the subway car that I vent something…

– I do not believe in any god or in those who testify to it – bad words are understood to be unburdened – how many times I went to sleep without eating a bite, carrying bugles and the pastor where he was going to seek help turned to the goose, saying, pray to God to give you what is necessary, do it with faith because that is lacking, faith and outside that temple there was a three-ship parked, tell me which god of what.

It may be that we need to repeat what is good without having to pretend to be kind, because that Pharisee who tries to enter the narrow path will surely be eaten by worms and there she ends; Those divine papers are thin fibers and the paper supports any ink, it is not necessary to pretend if not to put into practice. It is not enough to believe it is necessary to do.

Therein lies the reality of the gospel according to Matthew, chapter six, verse three, without the Saint, look I do not know him and the natural thing is to extract the laudable.

The works of justice are not the solution, what will be the solution, perhaps giving the rest from time to time; That group of us who are half poor, being real it is, we are not, because we have blankets instead of cardboard, fresh food instead of the pin round of flies, bitten and rotten from the garbage can; send them to look for work, again; Surround yourself with security if you have everything. The well-to-do have a quality that those who would like to be look for; they wear white coats being doctors we prepare to sell brushed marinated in sweet liquor, the ugliness of the discrepancy.

You have the ample capacity to distinguish difficulties and so bad to solve them.

With a fake colonoscopy bag and an illusory black eye he was traveling on the Edison train; the new me cost a fortune; thereafter he would save for a newsstand and trinkets. The business was going full steam ahead; it is not difficult to cheat if you know how to act.

Chapter Three.

We are all beggars, realize, stubborn!

How much a practitioner of begging earns; the vivacious three to four salaries of those who give. The benefactors do not notice because they continue on their way and probably they will not come across the ramshackle subject again in life.

They coordinate in a rare case Guillen and the previous Edison Lezama when acquiring the Diario 2021 in the kiosk assortment.

– Edison…? Edison Lezama? -He crouched as if hiding but it was not that way because he was pointing the weapon at that time, he looked for the deadly artifact and wrapped it in newspaper-

– Shut up and lower your arms, you idiot! Acts normal. I am not that one and you do not care to know who I am today, listen carefully – he declared showing his teeth – I know where you live, between La Treboleda and La arboleda, a shack with horrible walls painted in funeral purple, if you plan to move they will blow me… no you believe or trust you, I have a mad desire to agujerearte with an ice pick… a diary and l candy you mint are fifty pesetas.

– Don’t worry, I won’t say anything… keep… keep the change… – long! – What happened to your life?

– Shit!

– Calm down, calm down… I don’t want to provoke or excite my premature death, I was worried… I tried to help you…

– Yes, it is noticeable leagues… asking in the streets what did you think? Are you still licking boots?

– Well I… stay! Hey! I gave part of that bite in exchange for your freedom.

– Sure, fags at last and the tail.

– Weren’t you sorry to ask? Really, did that give you enough to get off the streets?

– What’s that about?

– I would like your forgiveness, eh! I am dying of shame.

– There is! We are all beggars, you bastard! You do n’t understand anything about life, you beg every day and worse than me, sorry? If I am not a damned saint… sure to insert the penis in your wife’s vagina you also implore her, tell me? – think, I think, think if- then you start feeling out with a headache and just co salts pula with the milkman… I beg to Mr. Rebolledo an increase and that so upset you as for reason bribe him, he threatens you in return and ends up cutting your salary… you beg for friendship, you have no one who loves you, not even the woman who conceived you, surely in childbirth, instead of you crying, she was crying; they hardly know you, they walk away. You do not cause hurt or pain. So, have one thing in common, love ask, money, sex, affection, understanding, hospitality, congratulations and all that shit, things change because I do not beg, people gives them to me because it comes from the lining of the ass. With that said, get out of here!

When he fled he felt heavy, everything wrongly said was irrefutable, before passing away, I look for Mr. Rebolledo and those involved in the robbery of the foundation, they had not gone abroad, they changed their address and San Remate, poisoning their coffee and cookies. Reading the press release, he was talking to himself.

– The useless Camilo J. Guillen, frontman of the F. A. M. A., has committed suicide taking with him those involved in the misleading propaganda of the children’s charity Honey Bee, however, he has left behind compromising documents, others are the exoneration of the reviled Edison G. Lezama, Catherine C. Longaniza and bla, bla, bla, others I do not care…

– Dispatch! Despach!

– Good morning, what am I good for… -a chocolate bar and the national press, please-

– A help for the love of God… -mami, that man is also bad and crazy-

– Ssshhh!

– See yo later good man… take care…

– God pay him, son…

– I wait for my change… I also arrive first… – announced the impatient lady-

– What’s your name kid?

– Hansel.

– Those bad, crazy, dirty and ugly people, most of them are good people and they are valuable human beings, on the other hand, your mother’s witch, I think any day of these will put you in her pot and eat you…

– Bold, evil… give me my money back…

– Of course, come back soon, tomorrow I will sell brooms, so I could serve her as she deserves… flying.

Last chapter.

Habits anchor a solid foundation.

Lezama with children and grandchildren, continued from time to time to the old ways, those who esteemed him knew the abnormal pathology, the working day prevented them from watching him all the time.

He got used to asking, he had good clothes, a home of his own, along with a long etcetera, but the force of habit made him dress like a needy, carrying a bag of sweets, going back to those old ways; beggars we see millionaires we don’t know.

I do not know how they can withstand numerous harmful bacteria in their body, get into polluted rivers by straining some valuable garment into the water or bathing with overflowing liquid or from rotten sewers ; but it is almost like putting up with the newly bathed, those who wait for others to resolve and correct their discomforts, theirs, even if they announce they are cosmopolitan ; be it the government or the parishioners, they are deleterious germs waiting for solutions without rescuing anyone, because for this the government is there or for this you have to have faith and hope for a better tomorrow, that’s how they pass the ball, giving an anguished grief and chills, at times it is better to live up to the good of that impersonal, mysterious, unknown god and who knows the extras or developing enough common sense to escape from the truly disgusting.

Being poor or being wealthy but honest that will be the bottom line.

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