THE GUITAR OF GOAT

   

   A goat entered the bar of the monkey carrying a guitar on his back and an old trunk in his hands. He asked for a drink and started to play guitar beside his trunk.

   The goat’s song raised all the animals that were into the bar. The monkey offered the goat the next drink freely, but asked him:

   -What do you carry into that old trunk?

   The goat drank the glass offered by the bar owner and answered:

   -I carry all my sadness.

   The monkey still didn’t understand:

   -If you carry all your sadness how do you raise the other animals up?  

   And then the goat answered:

   -I keep my trunk closed.

  (Osmar Batista Leal)      

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