they pulled my hair at charm school.
they
stole my guestbook during
rolecall.
Mexico City. 1988. + January 14. 2001 = 4:23 p.m.
1988� & Meheeco smells like scorched pavement. air� bends and sways in gasoline fumes.� fast tan car.� (expensive. european.) at age eleven & with two exchange hosts . leather backseats & we talk boyswimmingpools pi�ata party iceskatingrink incenterofcity,later.�� and then.� for first time:� there is a gun. bodyguards (blurry car trailing us whole way) signal host girls' Mother to pull over.�� their� muscular bodies leap from bodyguardcar & circle ours with guns low to waist and pointed out.� at what? what? isgoingon?� soon, we resume our driving.� sober car driving afterwards & I never� found out/ whole story. Also: late at Night, Acapuulco &� Friend of Family tells story of being lost at Sea on Teeny Black Raft.� candlelight/pool nearby/ our hair is braided and unbraided by parentes as we listen.
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