Siete minutos by Ismael Camacho Arango (the little red hen read aloud TXT) 📖

I have an iron health, cement and transistors.
The astronaut looks at the chronometer.
ASTRONAUT
I still have twelve minutes, thirty seconds and two decimals.
CALCULATOR
Somebody has to look at your screws. You’re drinking thick oil.
ASTRONAUT
It’s not important. It’s all due to atmospheric pressure.
CALCULATOR
I think you should rest. This marine environment is beautiful.
ASTRONAUT
I’m resting. I’ll work twenty two hours and ten decimals of a second today.
CALCULATOR
Something might happen to your brain.
ASTRONAUT
The brain is not important.
CALCULATOR
The brain has some importance, as the head ends the symmetry of the body. Women
use it for hair styles, hats, wigs and headaches. A woman without headaches is not a
woman.
ASTRONAUT
I have to test the manoeuvre L-09…
CALCULATOR (interrupting)
I want to see a dwarf transformer I met last night.
ASTRONAUT
Love is degrading. Men have more important functions to accomplish.
CALCULATOR
It’s bad to be a man.
Chucho comes in with the breakfast for the calculator on a tray. The sound of a clarinet interrupts the scene.
The calculator looks at Chucho.
CALCULATOR
What’s that?
CHUCHO
It’s the matador’s guard. He wakes his master with the clarinet.
CALCULATOR
What matador?
CHUCHO
He boarded the ship last night. He’s called Cagangosto and he’s Homer’s guest.
CALCULATOR
What does he kill?
CHUCHO
He kills bulls. He’s Spanish.
CALCULATOR
Do they wake up with clarinets?
CHUCHO
I think so, sir.
CALCULATOR
Why doesn’t he use an alarm clock?
At that moment, the president of the republic of Salvacion appears. He’s a middle-aged man with mongoloid eyes, a mongoloid smile and a moustache.
He waves his hands.
PRESIDENT OF SALVACION
Good morning everyone.
The calculator and the astronaut stand up.
ASTRONAUT AND CALCULATOR
Good morning.
The president wears a sport shirt and white trousers, while wiping his moustache with the back of his hand.
PRESIDENT OF SALVACION
Homer is a genius. This is a beautiful yacht.