Analysis of The stationer boy

In the shadow of a murky building, in a street with an ugly appearance

and an unpleasant smell, without sun and without human warmth

for most of the day, a boy and a dog tend after their only

legal craft assigned to them by the world: survival.

The boy and the dog are not just one body and one soul,

but they are also, as the world believes, one voice.

This voice, which seems to be heard only on Christmas Eve,

comes from a shrill ghost which lies restless in its grave;

in that sad street, which never housed a single butterfly

in its whole existence, there was some kind of greedy

spider, that spun its web to prey on careless people.

Yet, the boy and the dog await each new day with humble

and reverent obedience, and they sell paper: regular, fine

concept, white, whitish-brown, golden-blue; stamps,

sprinkling sand, nails, pencils, red and green ribbons

for gift wrapping; old notebooks, calendars,

diaries. To cut a long story short, the boy and his dog

trade in good old values. They are invisible to the courts,

because, after all, who cares for the poor, as the wise would say.

This morning, however, the boy and his dog were not in their

usual place, the golden sundust floated on the soft, sweet back

of the wind, as if looking for the stationer boy and his dog.

And the boy was lamenting the death of his old dog, in the shadow,

as usual, far away from the eyes of the world, and these salty, silent

tears were looking for at least one short gaze of the world,

but the cold world considers the boy to be just a regular, modest,

humble, honorable, and thus invisible stationer.

He kneels next to his only friend, and with a broken voice

he bids him farewell for one last time:

“Good night, my only friend! Good night, my little

stationer! Sweet and blissful dreams!”

And so the stationer boy was once again left alone in that sad street.