Puro Amor
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Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lannan Literary Award and the American Book Award, and of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation. Cisneros is the author of two novels, The House on Mango Street and Caramelo; a collection of short stories, Woman Hollering Creek; two books of poetry, My Wicked Ways and Loose Woman; and a children's book, Hairs/Pelitos. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.
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Puro Amor - Sandra Cisneros
Mrs. de Rivera fed the animals in the courtyard as soon as she got up. They made an awful racket, her animals, especially on the days she most wanted to sleep in, when her back bothered her. During the summer, the season of afternoon rain, the animals misbehaved the most, and on rainy days her bones misbehaved as well.
The neighbors claimed Mister and Missus had as many animals as if they were from a ranch. And the animals claimed the same. This was not a compliment coming from people, but the animals were more generous and civilized and saw things differently.
The animals were only a part of a long list of Mister and Missus’s eccentricities. The way they lived, for example, with poor people’s furniture when they could’ve well afforded better. The light fixtures in their rooms, ugly naked bulbs dangling from dusty cords. The outside walls of their house painted a gaudy cobalt blue, a hue so bizarre everyone in the colonia knew the address simply by saying "la casa azul."
Mister, after all, was an artist known across the republic and beyond. A circus of admirers arrived at all hours and left at all hours singing in Russian, Chinese, English, and French. Sometimes gunshots were heard, for it was well known in all of Coyoacán that Mister liked nothing better than to fire his pistol in the air when he was feeling content after his mescal.
And that was not all. ¡Ay, no! It was a fact the Mister and Missus were not believers. They