Amara rises shoes. All of a strap of cloth and rubber, which hardly understood by that hole should go in the foot.
the land of Bites scratch the skin, are caught there, where the ankle becomes a round, an outcrop of flat, half and half muscle and bone, like a stitch, begins to itch and redden the skin dark.
Amara can not suffer any discomfort from time to tickle. Might as well go barefoot through the path of the field and touch the ground with toes and heels, now that the sun sets and a freshness that regenerates climbs right into the bones.
The field is going through is a tall man with a long purple tie, a friend of his father. Amara passing by every morning to go to school Tiassalé. Sometimes it stops with his buddies and give them a hand to collect the seeds as long beak of a bird that adorns the cocoa trees. He stops for a while, an hour, at most two and then take the road to Tiassalé. At school there is just enough to have fun and get bored, then returns to the usual way and knows that if his friends will come too late will be back at work. Amara then tries to hurry so as to eat with them and stop at the field until evening.
the evening, however, is a season and a half is not made for the collection. The shadows of the trees ungainly stretch under the weight of cocoa beans. For insects is a party when the light tries to leave. The taunt the legs let it breathe a minute. Amara stirs a little, but just the beginning. Then the buzz s'abitua infesting pallets and blackened stones, which seem rather fast walking. The cocoa beans are getting ready to be collected. Amara knows that his friends will be there tomorrow, before the sun, to take care of that place. And then they think of sitting on the edge, even more savage side of a field not ordered. Listen to the sounds of the evening, the birds of the night they announce a blue sprinkles and corrupts the air.
Amara with the weight on the palms touching the floor and licks his hand dirty.
Land fed by humans would feed the men.
But that ground is crumbling in the hands of Amara, despite the heavy rains stillino salts sugar. The same land that feels under the tongue, he thinks in his child's head awake, harnesses his friends in the chain from planted seed becomes a thick paste into the cups of the big cities. They work at any time, except for this where you think the insects to replace the chatter. They fold their arms slender, climbing fast and prune the branches with a net strokes affecting the air like swords. Often they are not always the same. Increase and decrease as the termite mounds, where his father's friend with the purple tie requires it. But in Amara does not matter. It helps if you need to help. Then if the owner sees him away. And then he takes the road to Tiassalé.
trots barefoot and thinks of his friends, to the plantations of cocoa beans that at school they told him, instantly recognizable from space make his country.
Côte d'Ivoire, the teacher thundered from the stage of wood, is made of dark chocolate and unjust, but ivory and glitter. It claims that children from one day to disappear as if they were scrap, forced to be strong in the leaves of cocoa trees.
Chocolate, Amara has never tasted it. In fact he does not know that it is, but he does not mind that the aliens can easily identify them from their rotating planets.
Besides, his father says, chocolate is a sweet pastry, the food of the gods.
And my friends - it pays to himself - are better than the gods.
the land of Bites scratch the skin, are caught there, where the ankle becomes a round, an outcrop of flat, half and half muscle and bone, like a stitch, begins to itch and redden the skin dark.
Amara can not suffer any discomfort from time to tickle. Might as well go barefoot through the path of the field and touch the ground with toes and heels, now that the sun sets and a freshness that regenerates climbs right into the bones.
The field is going through is a tall man with a long purple tie, a friend of his father. Amara passing by every morning to go to school Tiassalé. Sometimes it stops with his buddies and give them a hand to collect the seeds as long beak of a bird that adorns the cocoa trees. He stops for a while, an hour, at most two and then take the road to Tiassalé. At school there is just enough to have fun and get bored, then returns to the usual way and knows that if his friends will come too late will be back at work. Amara then tries to hurry so as to eat with them and stop at the field until evening.
the evening, however, is a season and a half is not made for the collection. The shadows of the trees ungainly stretch under the weight of cocoa beans. For insects is a party when the light tries to leave. The taunt the legs let it breathe a minute. Amara stirs a little, but just the beginning. Then the buzz s'abitua infesting pallets and blackened stones, which seem rather fast walking. The cocoa beans are getting ready to be collected. Amara knows that his friends will be there tomorrow, before the sun, to take care of that place. And then they think of sitting on the edge, even more savage side of a field not ordered. Listen to the sounds of the evening, the birds of the night they announce a blue sprinkles and corrupts the air.
Amara with the weight on the palms touching the floor and licks his hand dirty.
Land fed by humans would feed the men.
But that ground is crumbling in the hands of Amara, despite the heavy rains stillino salts sugar. The same land that feels under the tongue, he thinks in his child's head awake, harnesses his friends in the chain from planted seed becomes a thick paste into the cups of the big cities. They work at any time, except for this where you think the insects to replace the chatter. They fold their arms slender, climbing fast and prune the branches with a net strokes affecting the air like swords. Often they are not always the same. Increase and decrease as the termite mounds, where his father's friend with the purple tie requires it. But in Amara does not matter. It helps if you need to help. Then if the owner sees him away. And then he takes the road to Tiassalé.
trots barefoot and thinks of his friends, to the plantations of cocoa beans that at school they told him, instantly recognizable from space make his country.
Côte d'Ivoire, the teacher thundered from the stage of wood, is made of dark chocolate and unjust, but ivory and glitter. It claims that children from one day to disappear as if they were scrap, forced to be strong in the leaves of cocoa trees.
Chocolate, Amara has never tasted it. In fact he does not know that it is, but he does not mind that the aliens can easily identify them from their rotating planets.
Besides, his father says, chocolate is a sweet pastry, the food of the gods.
And my friends - it pays to himself - are better than the gods.