Sad Stories of the Death of Kings by Barry Gifford

Author:Barry Gifford [Gifford, Barry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-60980-355-1
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2011-01-03T16:00:00+00:00

When he was fifty-two, Jib Bufera was killed. An eighteen-wheeler rear-ended the car he was riding in and sent it over an embankment on Interstate 55 halfway between Chicago and St. Louis. At the time of his death, Bufera was fighting a deportation order. At his funeral, Jib’s lawyer gave this statement to reporters: “Djibouti Bufera loved his adopted land and performed services on behalf of this country for which he should have been honored and decorated, instead of being deported. Despite the fact that he never did learn to speak our language, Jib was a great, if unofficial, citizen.”

At the request of his mother, Jib Bufera’s body was later disinterred from the Chicago cemetery in which he had been buried, and shipped to the little town in Sicily where he had been born and reburied there. Engraved on his tombstone, in English, were the words: He loved America more than she loved him.

Chick Ceccarelli died a month after Jib Bufera. He fell to his death from a balcony on the tenth floor of an apartment building on Marine Drive. According to his girlfriend, Loretta Vampa, who witnessed the accident, Chick was attempting to walk on top of the railing when he lost his balance. The apartment belonged to Loretta Vampa’s mother’s third husband, Dominic Nequizia, who had been Jib Bufera’s lawyer.

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