#XVII for akindofrecord …

XVII.What about the days we choose to liveLima’s words The idea of destiny is a phrase that saysthey are coming to get usit is completed by anothergo out to meet themin Gamboa shadows lighting fires in cavesor is it Bolaño againlost imagespoems anda lump smellsrecoil we do know at least a part of us doesquestionable girlsbecause a girl rolls overbecause of a mistranslation the part with noregret the role of the girl isin question andold gods do die and new gods doappearappearJesus in a hotel room Tosches’s Jesus girlspay to take him in mouth a part of himNick’s word irrumatesa part of us remembers paradisebut I told him the date and then saidthat I had been running across the streetto help herwhen I was hit by the carStraub is it so strange in both Peter S. and Bolañothere are casement windowsa lump smellsa life swervesa green stares upatlunchher legs