Close the A-2

There was a moment during the journey when my daughter would bounce out of her car seat. She has matured and understands that this is natural. It's who we are. It's our character, our identity, our culture. Accepting ourselves is a form of love. We feel it when we pass that exact, precise, unique point on the A-2 that tells you you're entering the "provinceFrom Lleida, the asphalt changes. You smile: we're home now. Immediately, you're doing space capsule-style pirouettes, dancing the twist in space, and inside you're an astronaut with ill-fitting dentures, a gravitational slave. The tremor of truth.

My daughter is growing up and is enrolled in the A-2 pedagogy. She reads it, memorizes it, writes it: at Panadella. check-point The crime begins. The unnatural border that marks the real double passport: depending on where you live, work, love, vomit, you are more or less. We learn history with asphalt on which the Romans first steamrolled with unsurpassed technology, so it needs no maintenance. Existential mathematics whose construction, since August of last year, has closed one lane in both directions 24 hours a day, whose queues have increased the birth rate, the use of anti-anxiety medication, photosynthesis, and electroencephalograms of grilled lettuce. It takes longer to travel from Barcelona to Lleida than to go to Vladivostok de Dalt. The A-2 is the commuter rail of Catalonia.

We are facing the unknown dimension. Of the country that is not a mortuary territory. The A-2 is one of the most heavily trafficked blood-bleeding roads in Catalonia. Data compiled from the Spanish Ministry of Transport and the Catalan Traffic Service, broken down by section: Baix Llobregat (Barcelona entrance): approximately 100,000 vehicles daily; Abrera-Martorell: between 60,000 and 80,000; El Bruc-Igualada: between 40,000 and 45,000; Segarra-Lleida: between 25,000 and 35,000; Lleida (bypass roads): between 30,000 and 40,000. The A-2 has the highest proportion of freight trucks (Madrid - Zaragoza - Port of Barcelona): between 15% and 25% of vehicles, depending on the section. The A-2 is congested, frozen, abandoned, depressed, violated, hacked, tortured, plundered. It is a warning of the country. But the A-2 suffers from another, more serious problem: it's deadly.

Last Friday we experienced it live, right as we entered the G-spot of lethal orgasm: Lleida. The road surface collapsed, crumbled, multiplied by the rains, and became shrapnel. Dozens of cars with flat tires. Dozens of cars with dented windows and bodies. Tar turned into bullets chasing us like hostages for miles. Post-war queues, ration book queues. Daughter, this is how we are. This is our country.

If Catalonia is closed due to the wind, the A-2 should also be closed. We close borders. We want check-points In Catalonia. We're risking our lives. We repeat: our lives. Wind yes, but the A-2 no? Doesn't a person who lives in Barcelona have the same rights as someone who lives in Cervera? And the dead? Or are some deaths valued more than others? They want us dead. First vehicles, then people.

Close the A-2. Oh… it belongs to the Spanish state. Oh, oh, oh. From pain, from mourning. From death. We can't even close the coffin. Dying between the som and the éramos. Catalan independence is for only one reason: to stay alive. And now we're dying.