Transcript for the man with beautiful eyes

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