On a trip to Baja California, Waits fell in with a band of local kids in the resort town of San Vicente. The boys would go out to the desert inland, bury themselves up to their necks in the sand, and wait for buzzards to arrive. “You stay as still as a corpse under the sand with just your head showing,” Waits told Francis Thumm. “You wait for the vulture to land and walk over to you, and the first thing they do is try to peck your eyes out. And when they make that jab, you reach out from under the sand, grab them around the neck, and snap their head off.” San Vicente was also where Waits
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