IN THE MONKEY'S BAR

   

      At a table in the monkey’s bar, two bats discussed about politics. One of them said while the other bat drank:

   -And now that the dragon of the seven heads that would throw fire against the corruption in Brazil burned his own heads the dinosaurs will dominate our country again with their politics of footing over the smaller animals.

   The other bat emptied his glass and interrupted:

   -That your long speech angers me. Indeed, the wheel of the suffering    always spins in the same place.

   The bat also finished to drink his glass and contested:

   -The problem isn’t that my speech is long, but is the lack of a new element in the cycle of the History…

   And then the other bat hit with one of the bottles against the table and screamed:

   -The problem is the lack of the wine in our glasses!

   The monkey behind the counter looked at the empty bottles on the table of the bats and answered:

   -Wait a moment, my friends. Aren’t you seeing that the bar is full?       

 (Osmar Batista Leal) 

     "No bar do macaco", a versão em português desta fábula, encontra-se no livro A PERSEVERANÇA DO TATU, à venda no CLUBE DE AUTORES ou com o autor.