Читать книгу Repetition Nineteen - Mónica de la Torre - Страница 15

We tried using tally marks instead, for seeming more

discrete. While adding them up one of us kept texting the other

one of us, sending photos of bright green cakes with rings

of pink icing on their edges and trios of blue flowers

adorning their tops. Single-digit price tags sticking out

from toothpicks, as if for birthdays pre-nineteen ninety nine.

Soon it got challenging to keep count while referring to each

number as a number that is one more than the previous number,

indefinitely. A lemon-yellow cake appeared onscreen and it became

evident progression would only lead back to the beginning.

One is a version of unus, oinos. In other words, listen to us.

Two mirrors tú, and also. When a single unit is no longer the case,

one becomes reciprocal, a second person. At the end of you

and me, three becomes expected, except when misread.

Thríe or threo, gender dependent. God, a prisoner or king,

laughing away. What to make of the thief in fif, of oil lamps

especially, as in quinqués, and pent up. I skipped four.

Quattuor, squatter, since four is for all when being walled off.

Time stamp: 4 pm. I meant not to demonstrate but to delve

into the full expression of the form, yet it kept emptying

out, becoming non-tiered.