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View of Colombo city, from Pegasus Reef
Drove out to Wattala, splashed some ocean water over my forehead. Colombo hangs all hazy in the distance. The beach is a golden bronze. The boys play the drums and sing old Sinhala songs, the girls wait patiently while we get drunk and play water polo in the pool. Peg it back into the city, retreat into the gardens of Havelock Town. The mangos are falling, the humidity is calling them down. The air is heavier now, pregnant with rain. Heat hangs like an oppression over Colombo. Political posters hang in the streets. Try not to think, try not to drink. Just push the kids on the swing. Chase lizards. Have extended conversations with the tortoise, mostly apologies. I daresay, it’s nice to be home again.
A garden, Havelock Town
This is paradise. It has an entirely different compression in my mind. I see it on the scale of India, a small island stuffed with beauty and wonder to burst. The map overflows, burgeoning greens and obscene beaches and food and temples and waves. I haven’t seen anybody urinating for three days. It’s nice to be alive.
Sometimes the conversation drifts to politics. I RUN. Go bury my nose in some temple flowers. The pink and white are in bloom, their scent like memories, white and wonder and aunts. It rained like the Dickens last night. Out of the humid heat, rain forms, bending the light and flooding the streets.
Couple on the pier, Wattala
It’s so beautiful here, but a vague uneasiness colors my thoughts. Fonny’s still in jail. Freddy’s going to court tomorrow. Prageeth’s been missing for almost two months. Probably dead. My father said you can’t build your happiness on other people’s suffering. But sometimes I just want to put my head underwater and swim. I just want to keep my extended family safe and fuck the world. It’s so beautiful here. Why so serious?
This is weird, but it happened to me. Lately I noticed that Google links weren’t working and my Google search page had a ‘Google Kindle’ link at the bottom, which they don’t sell. This wasn’t just on my PC, it affected my iPad and everything on the WiFi network. So I figured the virus/malware was on the WiFi router, which it was. Which is a trip. Anyways, here’s the symptoms and a cure.
I want to visit my friend in China before he comes back. Free place to crash and all. So, I applied for a visa to China, from Colombo. I’m not sure I’ll get it, but this is process to at least apply. For official but incomplete info, check out the 
The Mahavamsa (a history of Sri Lanka) is full of conflicts between generals and kings. Usually, the more bloodthirsty and unscrupulous would win. Our current (elected) ruler Mahinda Rajapaksa has had his own general conflicts, namely with one Sarath Fonseka. In the old days Fonseka would have staged a coup, as in literally try to cut of Mahinda’s head, and Mahinda would – if that failed – tie him to four elephants and split his parts asunder. Can’t do that shit anymore. Instead Fonseka ran for office and lost and Mahinda tossed him in jail.
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Pegasus reef, I love that place and looks like eons since I have been there. Drank toddy there last time and got stomach cramps. Beach is great but the crap from river out flow (or may be the sewer system) makes the water dirty. Anyway good to see you back home and up to your usual mischief.
Oh. Wonderful.
Ditto homie.