Comics and Ramblings by René Ramos
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Una Represa de Presas
In my dream state last night, the phrase “Una represa de presas” kept coming to mind. Literally it would mean “a dam made from hunks of meat.” My dream self was amused by the phrase.
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Emmy Shafer, 1980
“Shafer was a Russian-born immigrant who had managed to survive eighteen months in a concentration camp at Dachau during the Second World War. … [She] spoke six languages, none of them Spanish.” – Nicholas Griffin, The Year of Dangerous Days
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Maggie’s Farm
I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no moreNo, I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no moreWell, I wake up in the morning, fold my hands and pray for rainI got a head full of ideas that are drivin’ me insaneIt’s a shame, the way she makes me scrub the floorI ain’t gonna work…
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Doppel Man
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Jacob and Esau, Updated
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Car Travel
When I was a kid, cars had bench seats for the front-side passengers, and nobody (not even kids) wore seatbelts.
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Talk Circle
In the evenings, the men in my family would gather in the patch of ground next to the driveway and talk about Cuba. Sometimes it got rather loud.
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Cafetera
Growing up in a Miami Cuban household, the “cafetera” was constantly in play. I never saw this type of espresso maker anywhere else when I was a kid, so I assumed it was of Cuban design, but it was actually invented by an Italian named Otello Amleto Spadini in 1937.
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Bike Riding Lessons
Neither of my parents knew how to ride bicycle, so they delegated my rider education to my uncle Conrado. He did his best to show me how to ride on the streets and in the neighborhoods, despite my short attention span.
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Butterfly on the Homestead
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