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

MELE
Hiya!
HOMER
Your majesty, the twentieth century will remember you for your thousand goals.
Mele wipes his mouth with his cape.
PRESIDENT OF SALVACION
I keep a piece of the ball that scored the thousandth goal, in a golden box.

MADAM
I have a thread of his socks after I sang ten concerts for the benefit of the flu victims.
MELE
Hiya!
Cagangosto comes in with the bull in pursuit. As Mele kicks the desiccated head of the bull, it rolls down the floor.
CAGANGOSTO
What’s the matter with you, man?
MELE
Hiya!
CAGANGOSTO
You’ve just broken my training bull.
MELE
Hiya!
CAGANGOSTO
You have to mend it or I….
Homer, Madam and the president, followed by Chucho and the calculator try to stop the argument but Mele kicks Cagangosto overboard as confusion reigns in the ship.
Homer shouts through the microphone.
HOMER
Man overboard! Switch off the engine!
PRESIDENT OF SALVACION
What an honour! To be kicked from such a man is like winning the Nobel Prize of
football.
MADAM
It’s as if the Beatles sang one of their songs for me.
CALCULATOR
Your majesty has scored one thousand and one goals now.
MELE
Hiya!
As the sailors lower a boat down to the sea, the astronaut appears with a square wheel. He’s counting: 25…24…23…22…21…
FIRST SAILOR
I see a shoe.
SECOND SAILOR
I see the suit of lights and the red cape.
MELE
Hiya!
HOMER
Can we throw a cable?
FIRST SAILOR
He’s too far.
Madam takes her clothes off.
MADAM
I offer my life for his.
PRESIDENT OF SALVACION
Madam, your life is precious.

CALCULATOR
Why don’t you tie the cable to the ball for his majesty to kick it?
MELE
Hiya!
HOMER
It’s a good idea.
A few sailors fasten the rope to Mele’s ball.
HOMER
Hurry up!