And finally, fed up, the Woman had shouted to the Heavens and the Hells:

“Enough!!!  Enough of your mean and idiotic games with us as pieces in your morbid play!  Be gone, desist, disperse, disappear!

The Man, dumbfounded and afraid, had hidden his face in mortification and shame.

“What are you doing” he’d asked?  “What have you done?

“Calm down darling” she’d replied. 

“Have an apple.”

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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2016; all rights reserved.

Guillermo Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia although he has primarily lived in the United States of America (of which he is a citizen).  Until recently he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales.  He has academic degrees in political science (the Citadel), law (St. John’s University), international legal studies (New York University) and translation and linguistic studies (the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies).  He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at http://www.guillermocalvo.com.