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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

PART NINE

Dirk Davies was through writing for the day. He took a frozen glass and a bottle of vodka from the freezer. The liquor was cloudy and viscous as he poured it and pressed the cold glass to his forehead. In the distance he could hear sirens and the faint crackle of automatic weapons fire.

He went into his workroom and took a small black bag and a notebook from his desk drawer. He sat for a minute holding the bag in his hand feeling the rough edged Dako pieces through the soft cotton material as he tried to empty his mind. The natives of Tamara Island in the South Seas used the Dako to connect with the spirits who create mischief in our lives.

This is the closest Dirk has had to religion since the day many years ago when he lost his faith in God, on that little Island in the Pacific. His throat tightened at the memory. He pushed the horrible images back into their dark little room.

He shook the Dako bag and reached in. The piece he drew was carved like a frigate bird with long soaring wings. He opened his notebook filled with things the Tamara Wise Woman had taught him. He read the notation for the Frigate Bird.

"Though it be a warm sunny day and you wish only to lay in the shade, with a coconut filled with fermented juice, this approach will get you shit. Lift your useless ass from the sand, get in your canoe and find your fate. Let the gods show you the way. Maybe they kill you, maybe they don't. If you survive, don't come back till you're through feeling sorry for your silly miserable self."

The Tamara wise women believed in a pragmatic no nonsense approach to life.

Dirk logged onto a last minute ticket site. He could leave for Miami that night. Local weather was a high of one hundred and six with an impending hurricane that could easily sweep the whole city out into the Atlantic.

There was a seat available for New York City. He checked the local news. "Manhattan police expect a break any day in the series of grisly murders of tourists."

There was a half price first class seat to Toronto leaving at six the next morning. News headlines: "Two hundred gay couples married in mass wedding ceremony. Police Chief opens 'Marijuana Festival'. Jerry Falwell declares Toronto modern Sodom and Gomorrah.
Dirk used his credit card to grab the last ticket.

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