My mother doesn't realize just how much she's succeeded in keeping us from dying young. Yet ungrateful and precipitous, we continue to demand that she mend our socks. My stomach is stuffed from eating up the view. Peruvian women show me cornfields and hairy pigs. The horses are dots of color as I dive dizzily into the meadows.
Infinity eats rats.
The Condor Passes Magda dances with me. Solange dances with me. The condor laments. The pan-pipes go mute. Brazilian Winter Nadja wants to die.