Girl
|The girl and her blind father. Music on the street. We met in 2017 and 2020.
Now he plays laments on a broken street hoping foreign eaters will put money in her orange plastic pail.
She positioned him touching the rear of a parked motorcycle for security and trust where he'd be safe.
We made eye contact, she smiled, radiant, older now, taller in a simple blouse, shorts, flip flops, smiling, Thank you.
She moved from table to table. He played a haunting refrain on his simple long neck three-string instrument.
She returned and took the strap from his waist as he played. She led him past hair salons, a closed bookstore, a high end seafood and pepper restaurant, a bar filled with drunk European males.
Music faded in the night.
Canvassing the old market.
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