LIBRETTOS
record 6
Were you on holiday?
Yes.
To relax with your friends?
Yes.
To discover the beautiful city?
Yes.
On foot?
Yes.
Were you excited? Excited?
Yes.
Were you standing at a crossing on the sidewalk?
Yes.
All of you together?
Yes, yes.
Friends and passersby?
Yes.
Were you chatting?
Yes.
Was the light red?
Yes.
For long? For long?
Yes.
Were you impatient?
Yes, yes.
Did you step out into the road?
Yes.
Forgetting that cars come from the other direction there?
Yes.
Did you look to the right? To the right?
Yes.
When you should’ve looked to the left?
Yes.
Did you take two steps?
Yes.
Did a really fast car pass by?
Yes.
Very close to you?
Yes, yes.
Driving over your right foot?
Yes.
Did it push you back?
Yes.
Did you feel the car against your chest?
Yes.
Against the lower body?
Yes.
At that point, could you hear? Could you hear?
Yes.
The others scream?
Yes.
Was it strange?
Yes.
To hear other people scream?
Yes.
For you? For you?
Yes.
Was that what you perceived most of all?
Yes.
While hearing the car honk its horn in the distance?
Yes.
Still standing in the road?
Yes, yes.
Did you then turn around?
Yes.
Was everyone staring at you?
Yes.
Some of them still screaming?
Yes.
With distorted faces?
Yes.
In shock?
Yes.
Did it occur to you then?
Yes.
Did you see the possible tragedy on their faces?
Yes.
As if it had really happened?
Yes.
That it had been a close shave, give or take a millisecond?
Yes, yes.
Were you standing in the road?
Yes.
Facing the possible fate reflected in the faces of the shocked crowd?
Yes.
Did you step back?
Yes.
Two steps?
Yes.
Hesitantly?
Yes.
Back into your previous life?
Yes.
Your earthly life?
Yes.
Your normal life?
Yes.
Did you keep having this feeling?
Yes.
Speechless? Frozen?
Yes.
Musing silently and distantly?
Yes, yes.
Feeling like you were in another world?
Yes.
Feeling like you shouldn’t be there?
Yes.
Like this was wrong?
Yes.
Like your nice previous life was already a thing of the past?
Yes.
And everything would carry on just as normal?
Yes.
Without you? Without you?
