God is in the details. Ash Wednesday, party’s over. But the bright yellow flowers on my porch are all wilted and limp now from the obscene, senseless heat of the day. Hasn’t rained in over a week now. The same dreary pre-Lenten dry season that surrounded all my frantic comings and goings two years ago […]
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A crazy fog has just rolled in off the sea, suddenly converting Copacabana into a humid surreal night time nether world of terror. As if it wasn’t ugly and strange enough to begin with in the middle of this dark carnival of lost souls. Actually the fog seems to have even taken some […]
read moreI’m listening to the sound of a horn from down on the street. Not a car’s horn but one of those old-fashioned bicycle air horns with the little rubber bubble you squeeze. Toot toot. I hear that horn and imagine the cart it’s attached to and I see a skinny mulatto pushing the […]
read moreI remember all the bad times with the Crack Monster. I remember all the weird deadly moments of toxic lust and destruction and terror. What I don’t remember so well are all the years of my own drug addiction. Not without a conscious effort to do so. Maybe that’s why Divine Providence sent Narcisa to […]
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