Garbage Dump
Venezuela 2018
By Israel Centeno and translated by Ezra Fitz.
Illustrated by Camila Centeno Bonnet.
Voice: Rachel Ann Cook
The towers, they say, were built atop a sphere, the sphere moves when the earth does, but beneath the towers a labyrinthine parking garage had been built, and upon that some galleries, the basements, intended for business, shops with large display windows, restaurants and bars for a privileged bureaucracy. Tailors, barbers, jewelers, stylists, bookstores, shoeshine stands, to the good nuyoricanair, kiosks exhibiting magazines from across the world. The mosaic murals, exposing the timid virility of a remote and national past. It showcased the best, the select, and the discretely sordid, almost related to the Zingg pass and the principal churches, theaters, plazas and the old colonial neighborhood; it was conceived thusly, the center, the vortex of modernity, though it power bustled from one concourse to another confounded by the great diversity of the passers-by, going in Silence, shopping at their stores, it meant walking through place where the faces…
