A SMALL CORPSE FOR SO MANY BIRDS OF PREY TO DEVOUR...

A SMALL CORPSE FOR SO MANY BIRDS OF PREY TO DEVOUR...

"There in the ground the body is laying down... " Chico Buarque
Scoundrel beside the common worker around the small corpse.


Considering what Billy Paul said in the music "Only the strong survive... ", we are sure that Charles Darwin was more than a visionary when he published "The Evolution of Species". Only the strong ones will have access to the best chunks of meat of the small corpse and certainly they will survive.

Those who are weaker will have to please with little or almost nothing... they will weaken, they will fade, and they will die... They will lick their lips "begging for" the banquet that just a few seem to have access...

Acre is this small corpse. Some birds, with their sharpened stronger claws, fix them in the poor slim body and almost without meat, and, they eat of everything and they satiate their anguishes for more... The small corpse is already almost in decomposition! But, what is so much concern for?

When the vultures no longer bite out a meat piece, the worms, that also feed themselves from flesh in such conditions, will have their opportunity and they will just leave the skeleton left over there. And thus, they go on living on their lives as if nothing had happened or could have happened to them.

My father Jaime didn't believe in dinosaurs. He thought those enormous ossuaries were things fabricated by men. I imagine that the body of an enormous lizard like those would take many days to decay totally. Vultures, "vulturesaurus", and other one kinds of animals probably had fed themselves from the meat of that gigantic lizard. The bones were the only things that remained. It seems that a dinosaur bone is stronger than of other species. Once I asked my father if he believed in whales. The humpback is an enormous work of art of nature. We can still today visualize those gigantic creatures swiming in high sea. Well, he said that he believed. But, I argued that if they didn't exist at the present time, and we coluld find just their bones, I believe that he would have doubts in accepting  that that great skeleton could have belonged to a being that had existed.

Other animals die everywhere on the planet everyday. The dead-body eating banquet happens and the access methodology to the material looks the same way that of the dinosaurs, of the whales, and any other corpse that enters in decomposition.

The state of Acre represents an animal of small load. It is as a small mouse of the prairie. The vultures fly over and they want its meat. Some birds, as the falcon, the condor, the hawk, among others, still feed from flesh with hot blood. Once the matter cools down and the heat starts decaying the body, they get away of it, and then comes the time to the other dead-body eaters.

The body of this small rodent - Acre - seems to be in decomposition. The worms began to take over. Only the skeleton will remain.

Mourning! I struggle for that mourning to have an end. Intimate darkness presses my chest. "Oh, little life with no way out!" So, the only thing left for me is to weep.