Trash: Part Four–Appendix

Behala’s a mile wide, and there are so many ways, so I led them down to the docks, we got a garbage barge across the bay, and then walked.

Gardo has a friend of an uncle or someone who has a store selling dry goods, and we slunk in there and slept over, wondering what on earth we should do, now we were really on the run.

My going-home money, squandering it on sitting around.

I tried to draw me like I was hugging Father Juilliard, who I gave a big crucifix to in case the likeness was no good.

Gardo saw that each line of print had a tiny number to mark out the Bible verse, so now we tried out a hundred combinations, muddling backwards and forwards.

But whatever we tried we ended up with gibberish.

Now, he finishes, and he’s developing his own style of turning letters—small flourishes that add elegance to elegant words.

He looked to me so meek and so mild—there wasn’t a lie in his face.

A spokesman for the city police said last night that important leads are being followed up ‘professionally, vigorously and relentlessly’, and that the undisclosed sum stolen from the vice-president’s house would undoubtedly be recovered.

A spokesman for the city police said last night that important leads are being followed up ‘professionally, vigorously and relentlessly’, and that the undisclosed sum stolen from the vice-president’s house would undoubtedly be recovered.

‘We are at a sensitive stage. We are talking to people who have to stay anonymous. All we can say is that we are confident that a breakthrough is imminent.’

Sources suggest the criminal was a member of the senator’s domestic staff.

Vice-President Zapanta remains a key witness in the ongoing prosecution of his subsidiary company, Feed Us!, which collapsed with debts of two million dollars and was subsequently implicated in the hiking of rice import duties during the economic downturn last year.

Vice-President Zapanta remains a key witness in the ongoing prosecution of his subsidiary company, Feed Us!, which collapsed with debts of two million dollars and was subsequently implicated in the hiking of rice import duties during the economic downturn last year.

The trial is now in its fourth year and the Star wishes to reaffirm that the vice-president denies all charges.

Senator Zapanta achieved notoriety just three years ago when he ordered police to clear squatter camps to make way for his ground-breaking cinema/shopping complex.

He was also made famous by a dramatic poster campaign aimed at the illiterate, featuring laughing orphans holding placards that spelled out his name—the children received no fee for their services.

The vice-president has always campaigned for wider education, whilst presiding over an education budget that has dwindled by 18% over two years.

Charuvi Adarme, president of the students’ union, made her feelings plain in an impassioned address yesterday to those on the diploma programme.

’Five years ago,’ she said, ‘Zapanta campaigned on the slogan, The brightest smile, the sharpest mind. I’d add to that, The most questionable conscience and the blackest heart. He’s spent more than three decades lining his pockets, and his main achievement is that he’s made the country’s poor feel worthless and powerless.’

There was a big queue of people, and I kept getting shoved back.

The air was musty, but there was no bad smell.

Pia was waiting for us by the rucksacks. She’d unwrapped the clothes, and put the plastic packets into a pile, and was sitting on them.

We got a cycle rickshaw from there to the jetty, and another little boat took us way out, to where the water changes colour—to the deep turquoise you can see right through.

He taught me many things, but he taught me most of all that Senator Zapanta’s crime—the crime he uncovered and was jailed for—was monumental. Senator Zapanta stopped a nation in its tracks. He stopped our country making progress.