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We Could Go to Buenos Aires

We could go to Buenos Aires

We would drink some local cerveza

And visit Eva Duarte

At the Recoleta;

Have pizza at Romario’s,

And for dinner

Go to the Tenador Libre

On Florida Street.

In the evening we would

Buy jewelry from the lady

Who makes it in her

One room apartment

On CalleVicente Lopez.

She’ll give us a good deal

And she’ll meet us

Again at midnight

And we’ll raise hell

In La Boca.

We’ll dance the tango

With the two Chinese sisters

And they will take us

To the Juniors game

The next day and Maradona

Will show us how he scores

With the locals.

You Wanna Meet Me in La Habana?

You Wanna Meet Me in La Habana?

You wanna meet me in La Habana?

Near Hemingway’s favorite bar

The Floridita…

Which is now an air-cooled

Semi-deserted hideaway?

We’ll meet next door

At the Café de los Farnes

Where we can sit outside

And smoke cigars

All day long

And watch the pretty women

Pass by on the way to…

The laundry… or the bread line

Or just to see their novio.

At night we can go

To Café Monserrate

And view the modern day

Parque zoologico of Western deviants

Demimondaines

And your occasional

Dance aficionado.

We’ll dance with the old man

With the big cigar

And I’ll see that you get home

To your casa particular,

But not until we dance

Our asses off at the Casa de la Cultura.

OK… you agree?

You meet me in La Habana?

Hello World!

You might know about me from a book that was written by Willie Zakel. He wrote Paradisiacal Moments under the pen name of Joey Schmoeller, a guy he met in an Off-Track Betting Parlor in Lower Manhattan. After I read Willie’s book about me, I figured that if he could publish a book about inane experiences and the riptides of life, then I could too. The only problem is that Willie already wrote about most of my escapades and forays into the far corners of the planet, leaving me with next to nothing to write about. I should have sued the bastard, but unfortunately he fell off the water tower in Luchenbach, Texas while he was painting the address of his website on the side of the tank. So anyway, since he wrote about almost all of my adventures, I thought I had nothing to write about. Then I said, wait a second — there is my outré take on life which has kept cocktail party guests occupied as well as inconnus sitting on park benches. And besides that I’m a bit jagged about the way things are going in the world. And I plan to tell you about it right here.