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the man with beautiful eyes
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5 minutes and 41 seconds
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Spain
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English
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advancedenglish2 on Mar 31, 2009
nice story
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- When we were kids
- there was a strange house
- All the shades were always drawn
- and we never heard voices in there
- And the yard was full of bamboo
- And we liked to play in the bamboo
- pretend we were Tarzan
- Although there was no Jane
- And there was a fish pond
- And there was a fish pond, a large one
- full of the fattest gold fish you ever saw
- and they were tame
- they came to the surface of the water
- and took pieces of bread from our hands
- Our parents had told us
- "Never go near that house"
- so, of course, we went
- we wondered if anybody lived there
- weeks went by and we never saw anybody
- Then, one day
- we heard a voice from the house
- "You god dammned whore"
- It was a man“s voice
- Then, the screen door of the house was flung open
- and the man walked down
- he was holding a fifth of whisky in his right hand
- He was about thirty
- he had a cigar in his mouth
- needed a shave
- his hair was wild and uncombed
- and he was barefoot,
- in undershirt and pants
- But his eyes were bright
- They blazed with brightness
- and he said: "Hey little gentlemen, having a good time, I hope?"
- Then he gave a little laugh and walked back into the house
- we left, went back to my parent's yard
- and thought about it
- Our parents, we decided
- had wanted us
- to stay away fromm there because
- they never wanted us to see a man like that:
- strong, natural man, with beautiful eyes
- our parents were ashamed
- that they were not like that man
- That's why they wanted us to stay away
- But we went back to the house
- and the bamboo and the tame goldfish
- we went back many times
- for many weeks but we never saw
- or heard the man again
- The shades were down as always
- and it was quiet.
- Then one day, as we came back from school
- we saw the house
- It had burned down
- there was nothing left
- just a smoldering twisted black foundation
- and we went to the fishpond
- and there was no water in it
- and the fat orange goldfish were dead
- there, drying out.
- We went back to my parent's yard
- and talked about it
- and decided that our parents had burned
- their house down, had killed them
- had killed the gold fish
- because it was all too beautiful
- even the bamboo forest had burned
- they had been afraid
- of the man with the beautiful eyes
- And we were afraid then, that
- all through our lives
- things like that would happen
- that nobody wanted anybody
- to be strong and beautiful, like that
- that others would never allow it
- and that many people
- would have to die


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