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Bethlehem Oh! Oh, Boy injured! From Wikileaks to Liquilique

(Theater-style Read)

FIRST DAY

Narrator:

As is ritual these days,

after the announcement divine

a Child is coming meeting

prophecy.

But there are people upset

in the kingdom of this world:

Herod, who is second in every bit

surveys.

And Herod set your goal

via

Certificate:

that would not be a

infant crawling on the planet.

Savannahs are a sea

roads as rivers, lakes

by crops,

trails to navigate.

Without uttering a lament

rain inclement

trudged

Man, Woman and donkey.

Leaving Nazareth,

much

they tried,

found nowhere

inn online.

SECOND DAY

Narrator:

Heaven rewards your courage

and redeems the trio well

sublime carol

Vicente Emilio Sojo.

Mary

Jose, what will not it clears?

Where do we shelter?

Joseph

rains in Coro, Punto Fijo,

In John Greek and Pampatar.

Mary

And the sun does radiant

Zulia to the heart?

Joseph

Lemon have been overwhelmed.

the Chama, and the Escalante

Mary

is the first time,

Joseph, who I call "chama" .

Joseph

I said that's the name

a river of that region

Mary

What's in Miranda

recess for this calamity?

Joseph

Poor

Capriles will

with water up to his neck

THIRD DAY

Narrator:

Walk walk you seek

Andes light

unaware that

rain swept the Andes.

March José worried

Pampam and spotting,

thinking that now have a Child

injured.

What dark moment

for Children of Mary,

live at Epiphany

an early ordeal.

He has to give birth

and fails to Mary

empty garage or a

where to give birth to Jesus.

truck is about stakes

Loaded with three camels.

King Gaspar:

swear, Melchor, who they are!

Joseph

A tail pa 'Caracas!

Rey Melchor:

We want to present

on this happy coincidence, because

and science told us

that the Child is coming.

I am Melchor, Gaspar he

and come looking

from Guatire

traveling with corduroy Baltazar.

Gift a rosary

bring the holy Child,

ermine shoes

Vergatario and a cell phone.

Mary

uproot But, gentlemen,

no time to lose!

The unborn child

and I feel the pain!

JORNADA FINAL

Narrador:

Suben todos al camión,

borrico, santos y magos

y marchan por los estragos

que ha dejado el aluvión.

Pero llueve tanto que

ya temen los peregrinos

toparse en Los Dos Caminos

con Noah's ark.

Mary

He said Globovisión

that the Palace is no refuge

Joseph

Will it be a subterfuge

purposes soap?

Mary

There is not much to choose from:

Miraflores we will

fears forgetting

because there is no hotel.

Who takes home there

and if nobody vetoes

also give us the card

"My house is well equipped"

Narrator:

In so says Joseph

crudely distressed,

other apparel that has left

PSUV the card.

Rey Melchor:

But luck so vile!

So we have no life!

Mary

You see I kidding!

Let's go to Sambil

Narrator:

By Urdaneta a million

the truck is ordered,

the Child Victims

is playing horn.

The place is full

men, women and children

warmly received

the boy announced.

And for those who suffer both

without sweets, home or hallacas

came to be heard in Caracas

of Jesus's first cry.

They and the Christ Child

they sleep at night santa

a bonus that sings

the great Morella Muñoz.

FIN

(Published in the newspaper Tal Cual on Sunday December 19, 2010)