el Presidente
arrived in flurry of shaded
dark coats
at the
Hilton San Juan
earlier in the day
a street sweeper had been beaten
for leaving a dust bin near
the swimming pool
in the kitchen
the cooks
were involved in a laborious seventeen course meal preparation
for seven hundred guests
half of whom would be too drunk
to
remember what they had eaten
at the garrison Christoforo was polishing his boots