Orlando Shakes has published a piece titled The last lesson, written by Gio Quezada. In it, the narrator describes searching for coffee at four in the morning, walking through a famous street among crowds and parties, and arriving at a cold place that smelled of grease, alcohol and emptiness to drink an insipid coffee.
The narrator then sees two people stepping out of a car with the electricity of the night and the careless desire of youth, and feels nothing. An hour earlier, the narrator's mother had died. The narrator concludes that the passion of past years was never love, that the mother disliked the other person even when pretending otherwise, and that her last goodbye was also a final lesson.
At dawn the narrator walks back to the funeral still holding the coffee, and takes the final sip, insipid and bitter, as a goodbye as well.
Press release issued by Orlando Shakes:
https://orlandoshakes.org/the-last-lesson/
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