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    Waiting on a shaky premise for the garbage man to come

    chiselch / December 31, 2015 / 0 Comments

    Streaks of apricot light dance above the eastern horizon, a band plays somewhere down below, and fireworks pock the Oaxaca dawn as I haul the garbage can down free-form concrete pavement one block…

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