All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘got-the-blues’

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There’s a hole in my mouth – Cambodia

It started 3/4 into some pork fried rice a loud crack. That startled me – cos it was in my fuckin’ mouth. My tongue lapped around and caressed a jagged edge.

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Jaded-traveler blues – Cairo, Egypt

Done stuff all the past two days … Feeling tired; lousy. Sleeping in a hostel dorm – hopeless! Got woken at 10 P.M. At 2. At 5 by – “ALLAHU AKBAR!” (God is Almighty) – the dawn prayer from a mosque.

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Waiting for water to boil – Gwangyang, Korea

I’ve been living here 4 months now, and I wonder if – not, when – the excitement will brew or if in fact the water may never boil and that I’m facing a life of complete social emptiness …

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Will you join me? – Kaolack, Senegal

I mean, as I entered the town I saw a completely naked black man standing in the street with a large limp penis and nobody even looked at him !!! – so what chance do I stand? I swear: I felt black, anonymous. I wonder would nakedness have worked for me? Maybe if I was juggling an elephant – maybe 7 elephants, then all eyes would’ve said – Hi, white man.

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