images into words: valparaìso

on the half hour walk from bus station to hostel

• a man staggers into a butcher shop with literally half of a cow slung over his shoulders. beatles music is blasting through speakers in the doorway.
• an old lady in a flower print dress is playing pinball in an arcade with bright flashing lights. she whacks the side of the machine and utters a chilean profanity.
• pirate-esque eyepatch man (neighbor one) stands arguing in the doorway with belly-length bearded man (neighbor two) across the street.
• two junked televisions sit stacked and abandoned on the corner, the first painted "apáguelo" and the second "viva la vida".
• lazy dogs sleeping EVERYWHERE. children eating avocado smothered hotdogs bigger than their heads. murals, tags, graffiti, urban art on every wall and surface.