Printed t-shirt

I found at the back of the closet an egg-yolk colored t-shirt, with the four bars printed on the chest drawing a V and the words, in black, Ara és l’hora. I ask the AI what year it was from: 2014. Next to it, wrinkled but with the yellow still vivid, there is another t-shirt with the slogan SOS Quality Public Education. Beside it, two more black ones: one with the word Democracy and a face crossed out by a red prohibition mark and another with the phrase You don't have enough prisons for so much DIGNITY!, and the caricature of a girl breaking some chains.

Many of you would recognize them, we all have one. We could read our political evolution in them. The messages are still valid, but today we might not wear them anymore. These t-shirts age differently than other pieces of clothing, more in relation to our spirit. It is not they that have expired, but us or our surroundings. It is curious to find your ideas wrinkled, not in a ball of paper in the trash can, but in a jumble of faded clothing piled at the back of a closet. There is another t-shirt that, at my age, I won't wear either, and it says A little REBELLION now and then is a good thing. Thomas Jefferson. I bought it ten years ago on a trip to America, like this other one, from the bookstore Malvern Books, in Austin, with the name of the bookstore on the front and, on the back, We don’t sell crap.We don't sell crap. What a good slogan for a bookstore. This division of the message into two parts reminds me of a t-shirt I once saw. It was in Italian, on the front it said Scusate la faccia and, on the back, Scusate le spalle. Not long ago I saw one that simply said Don't bother me, and I can imagine some funny and disturbing ones, for example one for me, Watch what you say, I work with letters, or this current one: What a hell of a time I've had to live in.I know a girl who, when she likes a book, gets its cover printed on a t-shirt as a gesture of gratitude. T-shirts are like temporary tattoos that self-affirm you and help you feel accompanied when you identify with the wink a t-shirt gives you amidst the crowd. The person wearing it will never know.Barça shirts and the Diada, historical shirts, solidarity shirts or ones loaded with hate, shirts with our favorite artist, shirts that turn you into a human billboard. I gift the rights to this article in case any reader with meta-shirt inclinations wants to have it printed on a shirt. With so much fine print, surely more than one person will notice it and stop to read it.