other things thai

• we stayed in a cute backpackers hotel with guest-graffiti'd walls and bamboo hall walks.
• the mosquitos stayed with us
• an army base hosted the fields, pausing us daily for the flag raising.
• an armed man on a pedestal kept constant watch over the wc.
• gun drills punctuated sideline cheers and jeers.
• we munched tropical fruit and porkribs (southern style, juicy).
• the thai masseuse imprinted her fingers into my thigh--the fading bruise resembles a bite mark.
• i drowned my good sense in tequila+vodka and smeared my dinner throughout the bushes of the land.