Posts tagged "class"

The Performers

A baby hand, grubby and dusty, popped from the left the moment I opened the lunch box. The train was pulling out of the Ludhiana railway station after a five-minute halt. The sun, a mildewed orange peel, was going down behind the dust and smoke of the industrial city. The train had been late, and...

The Boat People

The women here put on their makeup like rust-proofing.  Preschoolers toddle through the trailer park mud puddles, splashing and pimp-cussing.  Teenage girls in sweat pants and ratty NASCAR t-shirts smoke over parked strollers, hips set at a permanent baby-propping cant.  The afternoons oxidize like trailer tin.  Still, there are boyfriends, and emotions worth screaming over,...