They tell me this fable:
That the fox, in a meander of the Duratón River, downstream from the town of Sepúlveda, Segovia, in the territory of the Ermita de (hermitage of) San Frutos, begged the eagle to take it to a wedding that was held at the Cavalry Barracks in the Paseo de La Quinta, in Burgos capital, between a donkey and a horse, to which Egyptian vultures, royal eagles, and peregrine falcons were invited; bearded vultures, Bonelli’s eagles, and black storks.
The eagle put it under its wings and, arriving close to a vulture colony, which had formed in Moradillo de Roa, Burgos, where a family of vultures was feasting on the remains of a dead donkey, dropped it, leaving it so damaged and regretful of the fall, that it said this:
“If I escape from this and don’t die, I don’t want any more weddings at the Cavalry Barracks on Paseo de la Quinta. An ant pie I don’t care; like the one found in the Cueva (Cave of) de San Valentín de la Ermita, with inscriptions like these:
“’Bishop Quesada jerks off in the apse of the church, incubating his only egg; for he only has one.’
“‘King Alfonso Sexto has a tail.’
“‘Fortunio, abbot of Silos, has a period like women.’
“‘In this cave, San Frutos, an anchorite from Segovia, was herniated while having sex in a hurry with la Despeñada (the Steep), called Engracia, a woman thrown off the cliff by the Duratón by her husband, miraculously saved by the saint.'”
Daniel de Culla is a writer, poet, painter and photographer. He’s a member of the Spanish Writers Association, Earthly Writers International Caucus, Poets of the World, (IA) International Authors, Surrealism Art, Friends of the Blake Society, and others. Daniel is the director of Gallo Tricolor Review and Robespierre Review. He participated in many festivals of poetry and theater in Madrid, Burgos, Berlin, Minden, Hannover, and Genève.
