Lars Palm (Sweden): pieces of lanzarote

turned out it's
a bar where the cab
drivers go for a
beer or two between
fares

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(bosnia/lanzarote)

jajce, yaiza
both towns
pronounced
almost exactly
the same
way by
the locals at
hand

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(note on informal employment)

in arrecife, as in las palmas, as probably in santa cruz de tenerife, as possibly all over the archipelago (& maybe elsewhere in the world) some of the homeless serve as half-official parking guides/attendants. for which they get a couple of euro from the drivers using the service. they divide the streets between them, usually downtown side-streets, & work from seven or so in the morning until nine or ten at night. the only criteria are that you be reasonably sane & sober during working hours

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most flies in town maintain
a deeply intimate relation
ship with poeple's feet

is there a weather fore
cast to be gained from
that? rain? of what?

or does it tell us more
about the flies & their
current fetish? now

seriously flies. in public?

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a house that
speaks. a beach
that moved. a
sun that plays
hide-&-seek, &
guitar

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pigeon
perched on
the back of

a chair waiting
to be
photographed

2

shutterbug
pigeon returning
to the chair

across the table
for another
photo

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(another kind of playground)

& in the middle
of rambla medular
in downtown arrecife
there is a temporary out
doors gym

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(poema de arrecife)

this apparently abandoned
ancient black dog turning
grey takes up guard behind
my stool at the bus station
bar first sitting then laying
down just looking around
& occasionally up at me as
if i could take him out of here

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but who shall
tolerate who?

that is

who is in fact
superior to the other?

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(architecture)

would be easy building a house here. the basics are: white facade. no more than two floors. doors & window frames may have other colours, although the darker spectrum of greens seems to be the preferred one

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a house
burning on
the hillside
in a little
village called
la asomada
leaving the
village
significantly
smaller

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then with
out warning
the torrent
came &
flushed
the streets
& as
it appears
the minds
of
some of
the people
& the
stray dogs
splash
with every
step they
take