La Pregunta De Maria del Carmen Rivera Perez

*based on the famous poem Yes Virginia There Is A Santa Claus

Dear Senor.

Tengo ocho anos. Some of my amigas say there is no Santo Fuasto Naldo de Lopez. Papi says, "If you see it in la loteria, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santo Fausto Naldo de Lopez?
- Maria del Carmen Rivera Perez


Maria del Carmen Rivera Perez, tus amigas are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They say, "A otro perro con ese hueso." They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Maria del Carmen Rivera Perez, whether they be men's or children's, son pequenos. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, una mosca, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Si, Maria del Carmen Rivera Perez, there is a Santo Fausto Naldo de Lopez. He exists as certainly as frijoles and arroz and burritos exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest amount of flatulence. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Fausto Naldo de Lopez! It would be as dreary as if there were no Maria del Carmen Rivera Perezes. There would be no sombreros, no telenovas, no Quinceaneras to make tolerable this existence. We should have no Cinco De Mayo celebrations, except in sense and sight. The external ranchera musica with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santo Fausto Naldo de Lopez! You might as well not believe in tamales. You might get your Papi to hire hombres to sing like Mariachis on Christmas eve to catch Santo Fausto Naldo de Lopez, but even if you did not see Santo Fausto Naldo de Lopez bailando la cumbia what would that prove? Nobody sees Santo Fausto Naldo de Lopez, but that is no sign that there is no Santo Fausto Naldo de Lopez. The most real things in the world are those that neither los ninos nor hombres can see. Did you ever see un Muerto dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s pinata and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a dulce covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest hombres that ever lived could tear apart. Only la fe, empanadas, y tacos abodabos can push aside la cortina and view and picture the supernal beauty and pasteles beyond. Is it all real? Ay yai yai, Maria del Carmen Rivera Perez, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santo Fausto Naldo de Lopez? Dios mio y tiene mas lana que un borrego! He lives and lives forever. Un mil anos from now, Maria del Carmen Rivera Perez, sin deiz veces, 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of ninos and ninas.

Con carino,

El Senor




B.S. Much of the spanish language was harmed and mangled during the production of this post. Quirky is NOT bilingual, but doesn't stop her from trying! Oh, and Feliz Navidad! That's Merry Christmas in Spanish. Just in case you didn't know. *beso*