Each and every time I see a recent photo of Fidel Castro I think one thing and one thing only: it would only take one swing. One good right cross and it's over.
Every tear my grandmother shed, every sigh my grandfather let out, every pain my family has suffered would serve as the momentum. The plight of every Cuban would justify it.
With one punch I could change Cuba. Just one punch to kill the devil himself. One. Uno solo. Forty years of frustration would serve as its strength. Forty years of starvation, forty years of no food or freedom or dignity or intellectual sustenance compacted into one swing.
Tears would roll down my face as I cocked my arm back. Unbridled hate and disgust would flow through me as I took aim. Every breath ever taken by every Cuban in the diaspora would be the force behind the swing.
The moment my fist hits it mark the world would hear a scream of forty years of desperation. Yes, with one swing I could kill Fidel Castro.
One swing, and the Cuban soul is free.
Posted by Val Prieto at September 28, 2004 08:32 AM |
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Tracked on September 29, 2004 08:48 AM
Wouldn't you rather kick him in the balls? At least as a warm-up.
Posted by: Steve H. at September 28, 2004 09:42 AM
Hear hear, Val.
Posted by: AWG at September 28, 2004 09:49 AM
Boy would I love to pull his ass out of some hole and just go ballistic on his ass. But if the Iraqi conflict has shown us anything, it is that just removing the dictator, does not kill the dictatorship that lives in the minds of those living under a dictator for so long. but no doudt that's it's a good first step towards a better future.
Madtom
Posted by: madtom at September 28, 2004 10:17 AM
I'll hold him for you...
Posted by: JED at September 28, 2004 03:55 PM