Matanza

Text by Rodolfo Agustín Perri. I must, out of ethical obligation and fond memory, locate the protagonist Miguel, "el Negro", a nickname obtained from my readings of "The Prisoner of Zenda". The son of Calabrian immigrants, a large part of whom settled in the southern neighborhoods of the city, perhaps to keep their native tradition of being “people from the south”, Miguel was thin, with brown skin and curly black hair. Spare, brooding, he would meet me in the afternoons, at the corner of Lanza and Somellera, an unknown corner that, by then, had just begun to be paved. The…