say you are sorry and we’ll call it even

“papá leave him alone”

“you don’t want an apology?”

“leave him alone, it was an accident”

“but i do want an apology”

the engineer

alberto is his name

has a surname that evokes

one revolutionary & one rose

“i don’t think he did it on purpose but i will find a way to punish him”

alberto said

“all I wanted was an apology”

i said

“le cayó una piedra al niño”

“es mi área de trabajo”

“si lo toca otra piedra no te la vas acabar”

all of the sudden

the rocks he was lifting

seemed very heavy

to the point that he could not lift them

“sorry”

said alberto

“you are doing a great job here”

i told him

and then we rode away