Abandoned Havana by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Author:Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo [Pardo Lazo, Orlando Luis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries, PHO014000, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional, PHO019000, Travel / Pictorials, TRV019000, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, FIC028070, ART / Caribbean & Latin American, ART044000, ART / Art & Politics, ART037000, FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, photography, Cuba, Havana, dystopia
ISBN: 9781632060099
Publisher: Restless Books
Published: 2014-09-15T19:22:26+00:00

34: The little shoes squeeze my toes

Havana is an immobile city that is always going on a trip, a stagnant nomad. Leaving Cuba is a plebiscite, pedestriscite; we vote with our feet. The shoes of exiled wetbacks dry as if they were some exotic edible. Inflatable sneakers, market chiropody, miniature balloons: echoes of the orthopedic ghost of Matías Pérez, the first of our aerial rafters, also the first of our involuntary martyrs.

Suspension of disbelief. Cork soles, the island that floats, yet barely breaks the surface. Shoefiti. Shoestring spiritualism, remix of medievalism and postmodernity. National shoe repair. Well-known flying objects. Shoes hanging in Havabilonia. Reebokolution. Stomping as the national dance and barbarity: the little shoes squeeze my toes (only the crystals crack, the men die standing on their feet), the socks make me hot (arise you workers from your slumbers, arise you prisoners of want), and the little kiss you gave me I still keep within my heart…

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