Nietzsche on his Balcony

They lay together every night without ever touching, she some secret sort of contraband. Never let them see you, Elisa. Enter and leave the bedroom at night. Don't leave your own room in the daytime. What's wrong? What do you want? You like cartoons. You laugh a lot. Why are you laughing, Elisa child? Because they're not like us, that's the open secret of your laughter, look, look, they're dogs yet they walk standing up, they're ducks and they speak, they're bears but they're not threatening, mainly because of that, Aaron, cartoons are harmless, Daddy, cartoons fall from the rooftops and get squashed but come back to life to chase the mischievous mouse who torments them, all day long, Aaron, watching cartoons, with bags of popcorn nearby, I live on popcorn, kettle corn, salt and butter, what do I care?

Because at night, every night, when you return, Daddy, we dine together on all they send us in the dumb waiter, what a mystery! All the yummy things arrive like magic in the dumb-waiter, as if no one cooked them, delicious things, prepared you tell me in the kitchen of this great house just for me and you, not a house more like a palace, even if you say that to yourself, Aaron, never to me, to me you say "house," "our house. " Yes, so you forget the prisons where they locked you up, Elisa child, how long ago everything seems! Bad people, what were their names? Good people later, who were they? Jail, Daddy, that I remember, but I don't want to, and you, Aaron, saving me from jail, you defending me, making me yours, your little daughter, your baby girl, because you saved me from jail, I was a minor, Daddy, but I was going to grow up, and you alleged they wanted to keep me in jail for minors, that's what you said, until I grew up and then judge me as an adult for the bad things I did (I didn't do them, they did them to me! That's what you alleged, Aaron) and the bad things they did to me. I didn't want to, Aaron, it's just that I couldn't with them, I just waited a little and then I did with them what I would have wanted to do, no, did, did with the ones who adopted me, I don't understand, Aaron, sir, I get all mixed up, I swear.