sunday picture show

I brought my camera with me for the Anthropology Museum and for the walk down there, but I couldnt take any pictures that would show you anything about what its like to be in gautemala, part because enough people have already taken enough pictures of guatemala that you can find all on the internet and because everyday life is so difficult to photograph and I dont have the cord to transfer the pictures anyway. . . There are some people with a little girl in traje crossing the bridge over the traffic, its sunday and everyone is out with their kids. There is a dog asleep on the sidewalk. There is a no parking sign printed by the local newspaper, I guess for free advertising. There is a man selling flowers by the busy part of the street. . . he made a sale! He is running around the corner to deliver out of the way of the traffic. Above is a cell phone billboard and something about roaming. There is a futbol game across from the museum, which is looking very Colonial with its yellow walls. A young man with his bike watches the game through the iron fence. The grass is kind of long on the field. A couple of guys pass on a motorcycle, and some others in crappy cars from the 80s. Another mom and child wait on the grassy path that goes along beside the airport while the boyfriend or husband comes running across the road. He stops three lanes of traffic to bring his girls some Burger King. Its a clear day, and the clouds have interesting shapes.

And then I met this gay man from Oakland at the museum, well, I didnt know that at first, but once I realized, it was so great—gay people from the Bay area who Ive met always seem so darn well-adjusted. He told me I needed to go eat some fancier food or go to Antigua to relax a while, but even the city was looking like a pretty nice place to be on this temperate Sunday afternoon.