Image of a blue glass toy fish.

AQUARIUM

My grandchildren and I

Went out to visit four aquarium stores

To see marine and freshwater fish

Pet and bird stores

To see if we could buy a species or animal

That would delight them

For their and our amusement.

In one of them

There was an old man with a very ugly face

Who looked like a deranged priest

Who, when greeting one of my grandchildren

Saying:

-Hi, what a nice kid!

He put his hand on his ass..

I didn’t know him at all.

 That’s why

When he told me he was from Tolbaños

From the province of Ávila

North of the Ojos Albos mountain range

In a granite peneplain

Crossed to the southeast

By the Berrocalejo stream

Also called Bernuy or de la Mediana

I pushed him so hard

To avoid kicking him in the balls

That he hit his head in an aquarium

Without breaking his fucking temper

Demanding the store employee

To kick this pedophile out of the store

Which he didn’t do

Because he ran away himself

Exclaiming sulkily:

-There’s nothing for true love

Like becoming a priest

Unning away.

 A saying that reminded me

Of the Archpriest of Hita (Juan Ruiz)

From the late medieval Mester de clerecía

In his “Book of Good Love”

In which he recounts his love affairs 

With various women

All of different backgrounds:

Nuns, Moorish women, Bakers

Mountain women

Women of high and low standing

And procures like “la Urraca”

Better known as “la Trotaconventos”

 (The Convent Trotter).

The store clerk

As we said goodbye without buying anything

He said to me very solemnly:

-They already know this man

At the local police station.

He’s a pedophile named Don Melón

Married to Doña Endrina.”

-Daniel de Culla