“The Village Drunkard Has Died”

Araci Almeida
The Portuguese
Published in
4 min readMay 31, 2022

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“O Fado” painting of the famous Portuguese artist José Malhoa

The village drunkard died. He made the others rejoice at popular festivities by getting drunk so much that he would dance around a circle, sometimes getting almost naked. He was the center of all attention. Everybody pointed their fingers at the poor wretch. Laughing their asses off.

But those were the idiotic, the ones who laughed at him. The whole scene had nothing amusing, it was pitiable instead. But…

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Araci Almeida
The Portuguese

9 Times Top Writer, but it doesn't matter anymore. I write about Portugal, I think.