Bestiario / Ilustraciones Rodrigo Vargas
Bestiario / Ilustraciones Rodrigo Vargas
Bestiario / Ilustraciones Rodrigo Vargas
With two strong blows that pierced the night he hacked the lines of two fine
lives. Between crude screams, lover and wife, felt the sharp blade that cut their fright.
With her slashed leg thrown at the floor, the woman escapes right out the door. She
cries, she crawls, the jungle waits, her husband roars doomed words of hate.
They say by night, to burn her dread, she looks for men that god misled. She lures
them through the forrest heart and rips their heads, their legs and arms. Her legless
soul will never rest until she gets rid of this pest which leads foul men to femicide and
chains each girl to dress as brides.
EL PIRATA SIN CABEZA
(costa rica)
Two pirates speak the devils tongue while docked in Parrot Beach. The
plunder splits: three parts for each, the rest stays on the ships. Both sign the scroll
and move along to bury treasures deep. He didn’t knew his parter would have stabbed
him in a slip.
He pressed his hands to stop the blood that bubbled from his chest, another
stab right to the heart showed him the path to death. With his last breath that pirate
spell that summons Beelzebub, forms in the air and floats away leaving a corpse to rot.
The dead man’s mouth emits a sound that rings bad as it smells, his lifeless lips open a
hole that points right down to hell. A demon shoves his face out and shouts to avenge
his son. A cutlass cuts the corpses head which stuns the devil’s plan.
William Dampier, the pirate sage whose trickery is well known, once wrote
about the headless ghost whose head once he had blown.
“The corpse just walks around searching his dad and head.
The demon shouts for him to hear but he’s more deaf than dead.”
AMAROK
(Alaska y Canadá)
Nukilik tried to hunt the Amarok once, the white monster had killed most
of us. He spent months in the mountains waiting for him to appear, monsters are not
that easy to catch if you want to find them. He heard the monster had a craving for
bourbon so spread bottles all along his path. The day the beast appeared Nukilik was
sharpening his spear. “Do you think you are the first one who tried to kill me Nukilik?
There’s been armies of men behind me and failed. You amuse me little man, I will
grant you one wish before you die”. Nukilik faced the monster and made his mind:
“I have a question for you. How can I kill you?”. “Before you die you’ll find out”.
Probably he found to late, nobody has ever seen the Amarok and lived to tell.
EL COCO / EL CUCUY
(America Latina)
Your grandma told you, your mother told you, the man is coming.
If you don’t behave, the man is coming.
If you don’t speak right, the man is coming.
Your grandma told you, El Cucuy is coming.
He’s watching in the dark.
El Coco/El Cucuy poem inspired by the song El Cooy Cooy, by Voodoo Glow Skulls
Font used: Jauría, by Pablo Marchant
Logo developed by Genisis Rosales (instagram.com/geni.riot)
Book Design by Rodrigo Vargas
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