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Our tongue

        Sometimes, our tongue doesn’t fit in our mouth if we are happy. If it starts speaking, this means that the end is far away, or if it is silent, it warns us that something is wrong and we will have bad moments ahead.
      Our tongue moves slowly in our mouth when we try our favourite food, plenty of pleasure, and our mother places it on the table, or our grandmother cooks the special meal that we love.
        Our tongues dance with another tongue if we fall in love. And there is no song around us, only the imagined sound of our imagination going to our ears. Then, something happens inside us, and we create air castles and see birds around us.
         Our tongue knows a lot of languages spoken by other mouths. There will be surprise and danger if we whisper secrets close to another ear, and then they will go off through other tongues, and their meaning will change: they will be out-of-control secrets.
        If our tongue talks to other people, it might evaluate personal values, change opinions, and believe in other beliefs, a different life for everyone. Our tongue carries us to many places, to prison or to freedom. Sometimes, someone warns us to shut it up, and our tongue keeps quiet, waiting for the storm to pass and speak when the fresh air gets back.
           Our tongue tastes a lot of flavours and often enjoys them or doesn’t, but goes on, self-confident and brave.
         Sometimes, our tongue snoops on people and scares them. Or another person tries to keep it silent or threatens us to cut it if we protest against the enemies of liberty, because the truth is a dangerous thing.
          If our tongue sees horror and omission, it could get mute until we achieve the scream of victory or not. It feels like the pleasure of the first sip of beer, and then it doesn’t feel anything until the last one.
          Sometimes, our tongue doesn’t fit in our mouth if we are happy. It can be or do a lot of things. So, we wonder: How will our tongue fit in our mouth if it is capable of making many things?

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Nilson Lattari

Nilson Lattari é carioca, escritor, graduado em Literatura pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, e com especialização em Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Gosta de escrever, principalmente, crônicas e artigos sobre comportamentos humanos, políticos ou sociais. É detentor de vários prêmios em Literatura

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