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...presents... Santa Chulo
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by Ed Long
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>>> a cDc publication.......1994 <<<
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-cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-
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|____digital_media____digital_culture____digital_media____digital_culture____|
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I can see Chulo dancing at the end of the block. He is small, and he
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always wears a striped red and white shirt and blue jeans. I think he is a
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little odd. Sometimes when they open the hydrants and the kids all go out in
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the street in their underwear he is there, grinning. He likes it when there
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are a lot of people around. He likes it when he can dance for them. Sometimes
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my mother would ask him to come over to our house and eat dinner on the porch
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and drink iced tea with us and tell us of his dreams. He has big dreams,
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Chulo. They are oddly shaped, but they are large, my father says this. Chulo
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has a dog. Her name is Changita. She never barks, she just lies on the bricks
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in the sun and sleeps. We give her candy sometimes. She is sweet and she
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loves the candy, too. My brother says she is too good for him, but she belongs
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to him and he belongs to her. Chulo is not wearing shoes. His feet are very
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large, and they slap on the street and make music while he dances. He is
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always smiling while he dances. His arms and legs move about and his body
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twitches to and fro but his smile always hangs in the air, fixed.
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He has a sister in San Antonio who sends him money. He buys what he
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needs, and gives the rest to Father Alomar for the children. They love him,
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and sometimes on Sunday after Mass they go down to the store for root beer and
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dance with him on the curb. He calls them "Senor" and "Senorita," and never
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treats them like children, so they always come back to him when the weather is
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nice. Mother thinks he is very wise. She says that he has captured the soul
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of the neighborhood, and dances on the sidewalk to show us that it is alive. I
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think he dances because he is happy. My father says it is not good to dream so
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much. He says that Chulo will make the children think it is good not to work,
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and to dance in the sunshine without worrying about tomorrow. But even my
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father smiles when we go down to the store and hear Chulo's feet slapping on
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the pavement in perfect time, and Changita slaps her tail on the sidewalk
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because she remembers him always as the boy who gave her chunks of ice from the
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truck even though she is almost blind. He still gives her ice. Father Alomar
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thinks Chulo is a saint, maybe. Santa Chulo. I laugh as I think of it.
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Perhaps God is this strange, I don't know. Chulo says he dreams of God often.
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He once whispered to me that God will never let anything bad happen in the
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neighborhood while Chulo is dancing, he promised this. I don't know. But
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sometimes, when the sun goes down and the wind blows and Chulo goes off behind
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the store to sleep I stand in the window and look at the stars and cross myself
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and ask God to be with him, and for a moment I think I see a light in his face
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as he raises his arms up and waves goodnight. I think God must love people who
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are happy. My mother says this is too simple to be true, but she never sounds
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quite certain when she says it.
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(U) |==================================================================|
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.ooM |Copyright (c) 1994 cDc communications and Ed Long. |
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\_______/|All Rights Reserved. 12/01/1994-#293|
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