RISIBLE. © Carlos de la Parra. (Spanish followed by English version, just clic down to read.)

`Meditaba acerca de mi presentación de comedia en el hospital de la senectud, ciertamente logré hacerlos reír, aunque no se si me pasé de la raya con el humor negro, como cuando les dije: "Me gusta trabajar en la zona de enfermos terminales, ahí los turnos son cortos pues antes de acabar el acto ya se murieron, y con el beneficio agregado de que los clientes muertos no reclaman ni critican. Miren mejor ríanse antes de que cuente los chistes pues a ustedes les quedan sólo 15 minutos. Les digo que cuando venía para acá a uno lo llevaban en camilla y al reconocerme me quiso hacer reír, y lo logró, hizo las caras más chistosas mientras agitaba sus manos como pa'ver si reconocía la imitación, le grité UN GORILA ESTREÑIDO, y los dos entramos en convulsiones, pero yo de la risa. Luego me enteré que lo que a él le pasaba es que se le acabó el oxígeno, tuve que taparme la cara y entre las carcajadas fingir que yo lloraba."
Creo más bien que la causa de mi despido fué por los dos que ahí mismo murieron de risa,
Que injusticia culparme a mí,si cuando llegué a dar el show ya estaban practicamente muertos.

ENGLISH VERSION

I had performed my duties as a comedian at the Senior terminal ward in the hospital that finally took the decision of firing me. I wonder why this happened. Perhaps I pressed too hard on the dark humor but to my hindsight it had been getting good laughs which is all you can demand from a comedian, for a medical approach they have doctors that can give you a countdown on how much air time you have left,
seriously I never told them how to do their job and they should not tell me how to do mine.
As I review my routine speech to find if there was something unappropiate or if I overdid myself in something, to my recollection the speech went something like this: ---If you prefer you may laugh first and I'll tell the jokes afterward, I am aware some of the audience here has only fifteen minutes left.
(pause for laughter), Yeah no wonder there were at least 20 buzzards perched on the trees outside the hospital ( more nervous laughter), man those birds are good finding food, (laughter) heck, I love working the terminal ward, never get any complaints from patients here, guess you guys don't have time to waste in that kind of stuff,  more like get me my oxygen or, where's my morphine?,(more laughs), yeah on my way here they had this guy rrolling down the aisle in a gurney and I see how he recognized me and he's making signs at me like he wants me to figure out what his mimic imitation is about and I get it and yell at him A CONSTIPATED CHIMP, and we both start cracking up , well at least I was because that old guy was having a heart attack, oh God he was funnyyyyyyy, too bad I couldn't bring him with us he could make the greatest faces, yeah too bad he's no longer with us ( laughter)---
See? There was nothing said out of the ordinary. Now it's dawning on me it's probably about those two old geezers that died laughing. Really unfair blaming me for that, they were already practically dead when the show started.