puerto rico

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tanned red bodies walking backwards on marble tiles, their mouths practicing how to make a catcall for the first time. these boys are island boys, their law is their own, and they take it wherever they go. baseball is their national sport, but politics is in a close second place. the boys speak of their leaders as they do about celebrities; these two concepts are one and the same, each carrying the same potential for vice, laudation, and wickedness.

the smallest one saw the man with the two-toned mohawk, and he laughed, raising his small chest to the sunroofed heaven, and couldn't stop.