The Savage Detectives

by Roberto Bolaño

Mexico City, as we all know, is a small town of fourteen million.

the perfect city to lose yourself in, literally, I mean, a city that only its mailmen could find their way around, and where in fact the Mexican delegation

And I saw the poem that I’d seen so many times: Sión And I asked the boys, I said, boys, what do you make of this poem?

a sky that makes you want to sing and cry just to look at it,

live your life, take care of your body, time is short, glory fleeting.