Naked women eat giant bowls of Cheerios and milk atop a mountain of
used tires. Children disgorge barrels of whitewash over the mountain. A
hundred yards away, men and women swimmers in brightly colored
plastic pools continually leap out of the water to catch with their mouths
rubber gaskets festooned with lifesaver candies that hang from chains of
mens’ belts. The mountain is taken down tire by tire and moved into the
pools, and the water spills out. The children tie the adults together with the
belts, they pour whitewash over the now-still heaps of bodies. Then they
buckle dozens more of the belts around their necks, waists, and legs. They
take the remaining lifesavers to a factory-fresh tire shop and offer them for
sale in laughy voices.
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