13.25php
13.25php I had a tiny coin purse, and one lazy day, counted the coins: 13 pesos and 25 centavos. Thirteen silver coins with a tiny yellow bit--indignant to still be called a coin, tacked one by one onto my hands. Silver as it seemed, was not at all. And lo, money stripped more than the universality of chronological value when they invented centavos. A man once bought a house for 1 peso. Another bought a man's life for 25 centavos. Tell me: What can I do with 13 pesos and 25 centavos? Can I buy a dream? A car? A toy car? A knife? A bread? A bird? Can I buy my brother a bird? How much do I have to pay for 13 pesos and 25 centavos? An inch of skin, perhaps 8, a staff of ...