#essaysinpain

[wastedwinter]

It’s not just that violence happens here—intentional, casual, accidental, incidental—it’s that the prospect and the aftermath of violence are constantly crowding you from all sides: men with machine guns on the Avenida Revolución, growling dogs leaping into SUVs to sniff for drugs, a drunk passed out in front of the panaderia, a driver so tired or tweaking he barrels his semi into a cliff.

Leslie Jamison, from “La Frontera”, The Empathy Exams p.61