Vulgar words in Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America (Page 2)

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You canOt surely scold me for my response to that jackass on the train.

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Well, Athena, I was sketching that verdant green landscape and a train stop in a small town with all of its myriad figures when this old jackass seated next to his wife said in English, OI would like to go to sleep now.O I said OYou are over there with your wife so sleep there next to her.

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OUpper/lower N who gives a flying fuck.

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I am not that big of a whore that I exist to please the whims of all old gizzards.

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Born in the Gulf War, the year of truculence, by his seventh year he had beaten up some red headed girl for kissing him on the merry-go-round and had beaten the shit out of some little fuck who made a crude comment about me casting spells on men and eating their piss.

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Matter of fact IOm damn sick and sick of you!

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For when the consternation had worn off the former whore and Victorian adulteress was repulsed by the world around her: repulsed by the nebulous clouds of smoke, the inebriating smells of beer so potent as to be tactile and viscous enough to be a liquid pouring into her lungs, this scene of teenage couples smooching and almost smooching as they got stoned in her living room, and how this generation was caught up in the same hungers making it no different from those which preceded it.

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They inveighed the Rice University graduate school graduate with their artillery of words: whore, loser, [bastardess] whom they had taken in, and not in [her] right mind.

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"You always say weird shit all the time.

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"Bitch," he yelled as he looked down from the balustrade, "shut your fucking snout!"

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I never need a whoreNjust a willing patron, but you have to take them to expensive restaurants and treat them like they are the center of the universe, be soft to them.

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Takes up a lot of time, so IOm always tempted to get more professional whores that you can buy outright but sometimes they are too expensive.

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Chapter 45 Conclusion of Sang Huin Beyond his dabbled research on the subject, Sang Huin did not know much about Jakarta Eth its Rupiah coins as light as a childOs play money; female mendicants ever so often dancing seductively into the open doors of tiny shack restaurants as their partners carried speakers and collected the money that only rarely was given for these dances of desperation and futility; guitar mendicants (usually children or teenagers performing in stalled buses); SuhartoOs penchant for small gardens of ostentatious statues to beautify Jakarta still his legacy; women free to let their long hair flow or to constrain it under hijabs and jilbabs; blue bird/ white bird/black bird taxis; oblong orange tuc tucs swarming the streets like cockroaches; Wartel phone cafes on every corner for those without phones; photocopy shops for so many businesses without photocopy machines; green and white city buses as uncomfortable as a back of a pickup truck; graffiti on doors of businesses such as that of "Fuck The System" somewhere between the train station and Jalan Jaksa (Jaksa Road); 40 percent unemployment with panhandlers, newspaper boys, and money boys on every street; train personnel giving out free condoms to all of its customers; trains going through the middle of Jakarta linking its disparate groups to other cities of Java N each with its own provincial language; the provincial languages, Javanese, and Indonesian all spoken in Java; those calls to prayer from distant mosques reverberating sotto voce as slightly discordant echoes of the nearby mosque; that orphic song of a nearby mosque thundering its plaintive notes; commerce and human activity stunned and mesmerized by wailing notes ubiquitous to the human heart and experience but still continuous; and the cacophonous cries of competing street merchants and entrepreneurs all amalgamated into one chorus.

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He thinks that you are a bad person but I tell him that you arenOt really thatEthat you are more like damaged goods N Yes, I am that.

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Damaged goods, as you say.

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For being allowed to wander the streets one or two nights a month without losing their beds and real food that real people eat instead of this trough stuff they would do anything: tell on masturbators, them that goes into the showers at the wrong times, having to take a runny shit at 2 AM when not able to hold itNthings like that which can get someone thrown out of here.

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"Yeah," "You suck my dick."

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