11 Agosto 2000 -- Breakfast verse

En la Fonda de Don Pedro escribo con pluma nueva I write with a new pen que compre por un dolar that I bought for a dollar de un vendedor sordo from a deaf vendor. Jest bot three shurts Just bought three shirts an' a pear uf sox and a pair of socks four 22 dolares @ for twenty-two dollars at Dorian's venta de limpia.

Drink my orange juice and think of that bus I saw go by on the street carrying people to the linea (border). Its digital sign over windshield (parabrisa) spelled out in broken dot English O U T - O F - S E R V I C E but it was completely filled with people going to work.

That's Mexico, we gringos love to say, without looking any further. Truth be told, it's true: the sign is certainly out of service, no? As for the bus, well, any fool -- God forbid you not be one -- can see the bus is working just fine, thank you, and full with paying customers @ 4.5 pesos each (50cUS). Bye....

hee hee hee it was written in verses but when we (Daniel and I) set it into columns you won't be able to tell the difference between poetry lines and journalism columns. Don't you just love being fooled? Is this fictive enough for you, Doctor Watson?

Yes, Holmes, but did you notice when you said we'd set it into columns that the verb "set" is the same in past and present tense, thus furthering another of your/my obsessions, the manipulation of time, as well as "voice" and "fact" ?

Ah, Watson, indubitably good breakfast, what?

Yes, and it's a damn good thing that the Sherlock stories are no longer copyrighted -- have passed into public domain, or did a few years ago, din't they, guvner?

Tut tut don't let the mask slip....

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Copyright 2000 Danchar Thomas

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