origins
belly fire
He
wears
a
half
-smile,
eyes
unblinking,
a
gold
chain peeks
out
from
under
his
shirt
collar.
He
tells
me
that
his
name
is
English
, "
but
actually
,
I'm
half
Portugese."
This
conversation
seems
to
come
out
of
nowhere
but
I
find
myself
knee
-deep
in
it
,
eating
up
his
memoirs.
It's
not
that
his
story
explains "
him
"
to
me
any
better
,
but
it
gives
him
a
soft
underbelly
and
I
can't
help
but
like
that
.
It's
what
I
will
like
about
him
from
today
forward
.
In
the
end
it's
really
this
simple
,
we
all
come
from
somewhere
but
his
book
would
sell
more
copies
than
mine
.
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belly fire
Portuguese...ack!
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who
go
blather
from