"Kill all cops" "THE RABBIT HUNTERS Pedro Costa" "Give me 50 cents for snuff." "No way." "I have no more change today." "Ventura!" " Where are you going?" " I'm going with Alfredo." "I was a good bricklayer." "No crooked walls with me." "My boss never had grounds for complaint." "But one day the work stopped." "And I was left with no unemployment benefit, no pension, no child allowance." "I searched everywhere for work but found nothing." "My head's not right." "I sleep on this street like a pig in a sty." "I wasn't bringing any money home and Suzete threw me out." "Suzete's not in mourning anymore." "She's dressed all in yellow." "I had nowhere to go." "I walked around a lot." "I had nowhere to go." "I walked around a lot." "I would go to Amadora, take the train to Damaia and Portas de Benfica." "I would walk back up... tired." "I would come up here, to our neighbourhood." "I went to the mini-market." "I found an old house, with no door or windows." "There was a mattress on the floor." "When I lay downboys came and pelted me with water and stones." "They bust my head open." "And so I went to the vegetable garden." "I was starving." "I found a rabbit, it was sick and wounded." "I caught it and took it to my sister's house." "My sister threw me out:" ""That rabbit is sick!"" ""It's dying!" "Throw it out!"" "I buried it in the garden." "I saw a pigeon." "I hit it with a stone and ran after it and caught it." "I thought the pigeon was good to eat." "It was sick." "An old pigeon." "My sister said:" ""All you do is bring crap here!"" " You like the soup?" " Yes, tasty." " You don't taste anything special?" " Cabbage." "Potato." "I can't give you the main course." "It's all portioned exactly for the kids." "You remember when you were digging the ground and you cut me with the hoe?" "This is the taste of garden greens." "Go sit over there." "Look at the state of you!" "I drop a lot of snuff, I got the shakes." "I am haunted by lots of ghosts." "I go home." "Knock on the door." "Suzete opens it in her nightshirt." ""3 in the afternoon and you're in your nightshirt?"" ""Yeah, what business is it of yours?"" ""It's very much my business because you're my wife!"" ""Here, sign this paper."" "I signed it." ""You know what you have just signed?" "No, I don't."" ""Divorce papers." "Divorce?"" ""Yeah, and one day soon I'll be reporting you to the police!"" "I go past the police station and a cop turns to me:" ""Are you not so-and-so?"" ""Yes, sir, I am."" ""You better stop going to Suzete's house or I'll be putting you behind bars."" ""You get it?"" "My condolences, Alberto." "Is that guy drunk?" "Life nowadays is weird." "I went abroad, my boss fired me and my wife left me." "I was left with nothing." "That way, he won't even catch a dead rabbit." "The best thing to do is get a potato sack tie a cord loosely around the top, place it at the mouth of the burrow." "Then you light a fire, the rabbit runs out, you bag it." "Or you buy a ferret, put it in the burrow, the rabbit runs out, you catch it and take it home." "You're a good hunter, Alberto." "Things I learnt when I was inside." "I worked with livestock." "Whenever I took the goats out to graze I would see them laying traps." "Whenever I took the goats out to graze I would see them laying traps." "I began to learn their tricks." "I would catch quails, hares..." "Every weekend when my father came on a visit I would give him a rabbit or a quail and he would take them home for the family dinner." "Your father was a good bricklayer." "He was a good friend." "My father never gave me a thing." "Not even a pair of underpants." "When the weekend came he would take all my brothers out and leave me behind." "When he died I was doing time, open system." "They called me to say my father had died." "They gave me leave and I went to the new cemetery." "I went to the men, the gravediggers who bury people, and asked for a shovel and I buried my father." "You had a fall far from here, didn't you?" "On Friday," "I was all confused." "I wandered through all that wasteland," "got lost in places I didn't know," "I didn't know anybody there." "I wandered around till the small hours." "It was dark." "There was a restaurant." "I went in to eat." "I ordered soup, food, wine." "They brought it." "I ate well, sat with them for a while, chatted to them" "and then left." "The man came after me:" ""What?"" ""You eat, drink and then leave without a word?"" "He called the police, and they arrested me." "They took me to the station." "I don't even know what they did." "I was confused." "I think I fell near the train station, on the wasteland there." "Nobody knew me and I knew nobody." " They killed you, didn't they?" " I'm not sure about that." "You didn't take your gold tooth to the grave." "No doubt it served to pay the funeral." "You had a cut in the face." "When I first came here there were no houses, not one." "Ah, those buildings?" "At the time you couldn't come here at night." " Were they killing guys?" " They would attack you, kill you." " White or black?" " The white guys would kill you." "Home Office" " Immigration Office NOTICE OF SERVICE" "Home Office" " Immigration Office NOTICE OF SERVICE" "José Alberto Tavares Silva, born on 1 7/08/1976, a Cape Verdean national resident at Rua de Fontaíhas, no. 49, is hereby summoned to present himself in this Department on 24.01 . 2007" "for the purpose of a hearing in the context of the Expulsion Order against him." "The above identified citizen has been informed of this act and its contents, it having been read to him in Portuguese, and he will sign it, receiving a duplicate hereof."