Tijuana Gringo

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24 march 5 spring 5 moon 2004
48th year of the space age

* * * SECOND PART OF WRITING will be ADDED LATER, below

Then you notice they are looking at your shoes.  Is he in need of a shoe shine? Does he really not have the money to shine his shoes or is he just stupid and does not know how much more valuable a shoeshine is than a cup of coffee? A true picaro will be more concerned with his appearance than whether he has eaten today, yes....

La novela picaresca, the picaro novel, is an ancient literary form we had to study in school. You know, Lazarillo de whatever....

And all that in a shoeshine man's eyes.

Around the same corner is a newstand full of half-naked ladies and muscular men.  The tourists go by.  I wonder who buys what.  Even the TV magazines are like big, ripe melons hanging out over the metal newsracks.  I am coughing at the keyboard.  Must not stay long today.  Just wanted to get back into the habit.

Here.

There is a protest march today it starts around 17:00 that's five p.m. de la tarde pues it starts at the park in front of my house and walks through downtown to the city hall palacio municipal it is a march against impunidad what is that?  Impunity, ¿verdad? the power of being free from puni from punish from punishment for your crimes hmmmm I wonder if it is a secret plot against the race track owner who every week is lambasted by a full page ad in ZETA accusing him of complicity in the murder of the editor some what was it fifteen years ago now?  The shoeshine men all tell me it was murder of passion over a gay lover at an orgy in his beach house or should I say complex of beach palaces heh heh sometimes fiction is muchhhhhh more interesting than the truth because the truth can get you shot yes

Getting shot for nothing, that, ladies and gentlemen, is what this march

Or could it be

Umm,,, I saw it on a newspaper front page, what was it... FRONTERA I think... let's go look....

Marcha hoy Tijuana contra impunidad
Por Manuel Villegas
 Organismos sociales, partidos políticos y ciudadanos preocupados por el clima de inseguridad que se vive en Tijuana, confirmaron su participación en la marcha silenciosa que se realizará hoy en contra de la impunidad. El evento es organizado a iniciativa de familiares y amigos de los hermanos Angélica y Jorge Angel Aguilar Navarro, víctimas de actos violentos, y ha obtenido buena respuesta de la comunidad. La marcha iniciará en punto de las 17:00 horas, desde el parque Teniente Guerrero hasta Palacio Municipal, y a quienes asistirán se les ha pedido llevar veladoras de vaso, flores o globos blancos, o vestimenta de este color, como símbolo de la paz.

there it is from http://www.frontera.info/EdicionImpresa/ejemplaresanteriores/BusquedaEjemplares.asp?numnota=239377&fecha=24/3/2004 criiiiminipsiosisticosheeeeet WHAT an address we weave when ne'er we practice to relieve.... heh heh heh 



endless mass transit argument
visit the website dot dot dot

measure your life against the day
news gossip hopelessly distand kings

and                               words
to bye                             hello
we sell                         good buy

on all the little cell phone chat
where were you learning how to read

again                          anew

without any previous notice that citizen 
Kane himself was due back in town today

Look Ma here's the paper itself clik & go there!!!!

Yeah well it is a violent and brutal world and as near as I can figure out reading the newspaper blurbs it was a horrific killing of a brother and a sister and it happened last July

I really should not meddle any further except to say

That the people of Tijuana are getting more and more fed up with the constant insecurity and impunity -- impunidad, pues -- and the really strange irony is that now

people are talking about electing the boss of the race track as mayor (municipal president) to see if HE can do anything

But isn't he the one who

is attacked every week for having someone shot however many years ago

pot calling the kettle black and takes one to know one

but NO ONE certainly not a buttinsky meddling metiche gringo, certain lei knot he, should meeeeeedddddllllleeeee no not No.

so if you want to read more in Spanish you may go on your own hyperlink mmm this is a new form of literature yes clik klik klak z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z z

Tere meanwhile has rented her own place near her work.  She told me it was clear to her I do not want to leave downtown and so... thinking very coldly and rationally she acted.

I am rather proud of her, actually.  I have always like independent women.

not apo strophe remember the fact is she refuses to rent from or live with my favorite screaming clown asshole yes Ramón Huerta él mismo mmmmm who has been a little better lately since he wantssssss us to stay renting from him well now I will for a while longer 



10:22 AM  Wednesday  24 March 2004

10:23 etcetra so it goes already went
to computers to write the diary entry today
beginning with what I saw and thought
looking at my shoes looking at the face
of another man
                 I walk through this
sea of people and think this is Tijuana

but the word is way far too simple only 
seven letters separate it from oblivion

erase them and my written word is gone
but the city will still be here and the
seven million people who flood through here

how long how often how north how south
this door is the gate between California and
                                         .
Mexico .                      the seven

million on the road at any given moment
will still flow     how north how south

and some of it I will publish

that is the key to understanding this trick
of edition               that I will choose
what words to print to let read and be read

and also what words not to print as empty

- ion                               obliv -

even if it be only a verbatim copy of what I scribbled later in my little house at my little table on my little clipboard paper and pen

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