"This is extremely important.
The phrase is repeated with the accuracy of the lie. Why not. It is not. It is extremely important. In fact, within the broad world of expendable and jerk, a world that includes all the manuals that I had read in my work, all meetings with my managers, all the speeches of CEOs in year-end holidays, the list of business objectives that everyone should have on your desk, and Ramiro, few things are as expendable and imbeciles like this.
-Extremely important that, eh?
good thing is that from time to time vary the order of words. That makes it a skillful liar. For the truth begets multiple ways to be told. The lie, however, provides only a handful because he feared the bill confused. But someone skilled in the subtle art of deception known to alter a little way of telling what is not. And no, I do not look Lie to me . Just learned from the various times in which my manager told me why could not give me a raise.
"This is extremely important.
And again the same. All right. It was not as skilled as it seemed. Overestimate. It is well dressed. Has an iPhone. A high office in the company. And so long frequenting offices made me believe that define the interior shell, and not vice versa. My fault for succumbing to his speech, being permeable to their hierarchy of values. It is in these moments in which I recognize as another zombie when I want to run over to the window and jump into the void. Of course, the awkwardness of this city knew stabbing the heavens with messy tangle of wires, which end up suspended from the estrolarme themselves rather than on the asphalt.
-Extremely important, people.
Shit. I grab him by the lapels of his expensive suit and shake. I yell it is not important. That nothing is. Not even the most elaborate virtues or the most titanic achievements of mankind are monoliths that can last for eternity. Time is a beast that devours everything, and it passes, leaves only two things: the certainty that nothing and silence prevails. Faced with such vastness and desolation, what is the importance of this new function in an insipid program we use in this dull work?
–¿Cuán importante?
Hay un instante de desconcierto. –Sumamente.- pronto corean todos, sonrientes por haber sido incluidos.
Y arranco el matafuego de la pared y con el mismo vuelvo cubistas a los rostros de cada uno acá presente mientras el grito que contuve por años se despliega entero en mi garganta y, con él, se resquebrajan las paredes y el edificio colapsa y los cables son arrastrados con él y, con ellos, los otros edificios y cada una de sus oficinas hasta despojar de paredes y cursos y cubículos y conferencias a cada oficinista allá afuera y que parpadeen, acomodando sus ojos al sol, hasta poder contemplar cómo lo importante, lo sumamente importante, aquello por lo que resignaron dreams and happiness and hours and hours and hours and hours is more than a handful of dust.
"This is extremely important.
