Murder City by Charles Bowden

Author:Charles Bowden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nation Books

Dead Reporter Driving

I am sitting in the Hotel San Francisco in Palomas almost four years to the day since the moment Emilio Gutiérrez destroyed his life. The small restaurant has eight tables, the walls host an explosion of plastic flowers screaming yellow, red, and pink. Carved wooden mallard heads spike out as hat racks for Stetsons. In the lobby is a large statue of San Francisco, and in his hands and at his feet illegal immigrants have left handwritten messages and offerings. The tile floor is the color of flesh. Just five blocks away, the poor plunged through the line and headed into El Norte—none of the notes are very recent. The river of misery has changed course for the moment. Music floats through the air, Bob Dylan singing “Knocking on Heaven’s Door.”

The notes whisper of people in flight: “Father, help us all who pass as wet-backs. Help us Our Father. Bless us all who think of You, who trust in You.

“And I ask You to bless and help my mother, my father and me and my brothers and sisters and all of my family. In Your hands we place our good luck to pass ALIVE. Adios Our Father.”

Or a note says: “Please I ask You with all my heart look after and protect my husband that he pass safely. Amen.”

A Bible lies open, and someone has dropped this plea on the page:God bless us and protect us

along the way

Yonathan

Manuel

Tomaz

Yumbo

Graciela

Norma

Olinda

Guide us on a good road

and protect us.

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