(Collage of pasted illustrations of insects, birds, people walking, and plants)

I’M GOING TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE

A certain Marla Burla

Writes me an email telling me

She is writing to me on behalf of

“Skoll Funfation”

An American Foundation

Whose vision is to live in a sustainable world

Of peace and prosperity for all

Catalyzing transformative social change.

When she writes to me:

“When you receive this email

Be very happy

Because you have been selected

To receive 3,500,000 dollars.

Send me a postal address

And a savings account, or bank

So I can send it to you.”

I am not excited about this luck

Because I know it is a scam

Like any other

And that it is not the one who goes down

That goes down

But the one who falls.

I have answered her with these words:

-Prove that you are telling the truth

Send me, first, a courtesy gift

And I will give you the address

Of my bank account and a kiss.

After fifteen days

More or less

I received a package via Amazon

From Palo Alto, California

(That’s what the address said)

Containing a kilo of bottle caps

Of Tropical Torpedo beers

Dirty Bastard, Blackwoods, California

Anchor, Bud Light and Flying Dog

Which made me laugh a lot

Because I will have the photo of the players

From the Burgos Football Club

And those from the Huesca Sports Society

So that my grandchildren can have

A championship between them

And play in Gamonal, Rio Vena

And Barriada San Juan Bautista.

-Daniel de Culla