#balbin

[vintagepipemen]

Spanish author Jose Luis Balbin smoking a pipe while hosting the talk show “La Clave” in 1979, along with a few cigar-smoking friends. 

[vintagepipemen]

Spaniards Narciso Ibanez Serrado (with beard) and Jose Luis Balbin smoking up the studio on Balbin’s TV program “La Clave,” 1978. 

[pearltopea-blog]

The caves were filled

with two thousand bodies each time.

The melting fat flowed into containers

for reuse -

poured over the flamin bodies,

which seemed

shackled by thousands

of tiny red and blue flames

licking them.

Bubbles rapidly formed

and burst on their skin,

while the cauterizing heat

exploded their bellies.

The frying flesh

elicited violent hissing

and spitting

making stronger and stronger

the intense heat.

The blue and red flames

gave off incandescent hues.

It seemed that the bodies

were being roasted there

for the feast

of a thousand Satans.