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Wednesday, May 8, 2024: John D. Robinson's "A Squint of Spain 2022"

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  A Squint of Spain 2022 I purchased a straw hat and sunglasses, so that I could blend right in with most of the other assholes: unlike a majority of my fellow countrymen, I was absent of a shaved head, a fat gut, a big mouth and bad tattoos and they began drinking pale, watered down beer at 10:30 am: I left out the booze until late evening, I enjoy drinking alone and listening to music of my own choosing: I’d sit on the room’s balcony and gaze across at the 5 storeys, sprawling apartment complex opposite and observed life in all its variety as I drank my wine: any night I would see half-naked young women strutting from room to room, gay men in boxer shorts romantically dancing, cat’s balancing on 3 rd storey windowsills, one guy who would constantly lean out of his 4 th floor window and look up and down the street and then shake his head and disappear for a few minutes and then return: an elderly couple whose faces were lit by a flickering television screen, sometimes, I heard th...