Cine Bahia
The Suicide Codex
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[9 sept]
for my 1st night irent a room at the economico
for twenty u.s. dollars
& eavesdrop on a couple celebrating mexico's
birth by making love
witness their mutual distress as soulful as a priest
anointing the dead
while in the room next door a man just back
from yelapa vomits in the toilet
his retching convulsive and without curses all this
& fireworks too, i marvel
is good--a barking dog & the smell of rain
while i write in a hurry this postcard
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About the Book
CINE BAHIA is a kind of tour of the interior along the Pacific coast of Mexico & the U.S. Soon the traveler discovers that the real reason for his going is to end his life--not as a bitter departure from the ripeness of this world, but as a long anticipated homecoming. This mythic land & sea journey explores the shadow of ourselves as figures in a dreamscape.
About the Author
Author of nine novels & volumes of poetry, geoff Peterson writes for those whose lives have blown a tire when there are no more spares in the trunk. For years he has traveled extensively in witnessing the effects of a planet in crisis upon the interior lives of its residents. The chaos & deterioration of life forms, he insists, profoundly affects our dreamlife, our relationships, and our most intimate sense of ourselves.