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cigar-tin stories ninety-two / / pictures came and broke your heart

I don’t know what to write about in this week’s Tinyletter. I went to bed early last night because I was tired. A nd I would have slept in, too, but the Siamese started coughing and coughing and I thought,  Well, that’s it . I would write about the provincial election but it’s all  about the parties just trying to scare everyone into not voting for the other guy. The government has been in forever and can hardly keep their eyes open at this point, it’s one little sneaky  scandal after another, but they are very clever, too, and quite slick about things, especially when it comes to planting tiny tiny hopes and fears but in the end they know (and pray, I think) that they are going to crash and burn here. And the party that is supposed to win (by default, it seems) is run by a guy who reminds me of someone who might sell you tons of insurance and then not honour it, saying that it was you who was trying to hit that meteor and maybe the meteor will sue  you  if you’re not careful and y

cuba libre

So: we went to Cuba. It was cold and grey and raining when we left. It was  cold and grey and raining here today, but then the sun wandered around after lunch.  I desperately needed a break. Or at least some kind of line or marker, somewhere to restart from. Sometimes you can just feel yourself drifting along.  And Cuba was filled with: megatonic sun and sudden walls of heat and winds building throughout the day, warm bottle-blue  ocean, foam- crashing waves, endless white beach. And some random things ... • Someone should do a documentary called  Strange Hotel Rooms . Ours at the Montreal airport didn't  appear  strange; in fact, everything looked quite nice (although the view, over acres of parking and wet pavement, threatened to slide from one's field of vision ). But at night the sounds came out, the little  click click clicks  of the heater, the gasping of some unseen fan, disembodied voices above or below or somewhere down the hall, double muffled in cushioned d