tijuana gringo : diary : 28 winter moon 26 (17 enero 2004) : mg40117a.html

Tijuana Gringo : Diary Calendar fresh.Diaryablog 28 WinterInvierno LunaMoon 26 Year of the Space Age 48 añoSpacio SABADO SaturnDAY 17 enero/january 2004 48th year of the Space Age morning mañana bilingüe afternoon inglés
The last nativity scenes disappear from shop windows about time twelve days already from Epiphany of the three magi kings Now there are not so many booths and makeshift tables piled up along the sidewalks and streets of downtown Tijuana, for the great Christmas sales season is ended and only the quote-unquote "ordinary" vendors are hawking their wares in this deliciously medieval & postmodern metropolis at the end of the earth. And the poetmonger tries to write it down in two languages.	Los ultimos nacimientos desaparecen de las ventanas de las tiendas ya basta de tiempo hace doce días ya desde la epifanía de los tres reyes magos Ya no hay tantos puestos y desaregladas mesas amontonadas en las banquetas y calles del centro de Tijuana, porque el gran tiempo de ventas de navidad ya se pasó y no más los entre cifras "ordinarios" vendedores están jalando la gente con sus productos en este deliciosamente posmoderno y medieval metropoli al final del mundo. Y el poetastro intenta escribirlo en dos idiomas.
It is Saturday, and I shall soon walk out from this café and watch the tourists walk up the hill from the river, as always on weekends. There are still too few, and You would be Welcome, no, More Than Welcome. So come on down, spend a few dollars on lunch, and walk around, see Tijuana and its vision of Mexico on the edge... Head two blocks west on 2nd to Niños and explore the Popo market diagonally across from the cathedral. Go back into the depth of the market, enter under the arch and... Lot of stuff around here to see and, if you want, buy. Across second by the CINCO DE MAYO building is a shop with all kinds of lapel pins (especially sports) and little figures in the window... Next door, or next to that, is a killer shop to get ranchero shirts and hats.	Es sabado y muy pronto voy a andar desde este café para mirar a los turistas que caminan por la subida desde el río, como siempre en los fines de la semana. Pero aún falta gente, y Tu estarías Bienvenido, no, MUY Bienvenidos. Pues vente, gastate unos pocos dolares en almozar, y caminar, ver Tijuana y su visión de Mexico en la orilla... Pasale dos cuadras oeste en 2da a Niños para explorar el mercado Popo en frente de la catedral. Vete al fondo del mercado, después de la entrada baja el arco y... Muchas cosas acá para ver y siquieres comprar. Al otro lado de la segunda enseguida del edificio CINCO DE MAYO hay una tienda con todo tipo de "pins" deportivos y monitos en la ventana... Enseguida una tienda muy chingón donde puede comprar camisas y sombreros rancheros.
It is difficult to read literature in Spanish; never ceases to amaze me (look Ma - a cliché)that I can actually understand this foreign language that surrounds me here in Tijuana and unfolds before me whenever I open a book in the park to read, Spanish window within Spanish window, book on bench under trees where the pigeons drop so move to another bench now but still the sweet noise of children shouting and parents laughing on the weekend, in the park, outside the book where my brain, absolutely alone, yet surrounded, where my brain swims deeper into the language, the difficult but beautiful language frozen on the page, surrounded by a rushing fluid language of speech around us, yes, that is the window within window, now within this window where you read me in English not in Spanish, yes, it is difficult and beautiful and sweet here, a hard candy melting in our mouths, now, together, apart, and then... gone.
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