TE19 Iberian Adventure

Gonçalo M. Tavares

“Well, I don’t go to church on Sunday

Don’t get on my knees to pray

Don’t memorize the books of the Bible”

Anaïve, motionless thing, quitesafe: anengine, whenabandoned.

Brazil with more than a thousand dead in the last 24 hours. New cases in Chile shoot up 54.5%.

Mexico: three times more dead than the official numbers.

“Nicaragua announces sudden increase in infections”.

The light virus moves about in the way the heavy mammoth did way back.

It’s now putting its bad, heavy feet onto South and Central America.

In Mexico, green light for some neighbourhoods and red light for the cities of “desesperanza” – the cities of despair – as Paula A. calls them.

Mexico City is red in several places.

A classic red associated with blood, blue in the air.

Primary colours exchanged.

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