By the River

By The River. At the estuary of the Amazons the water is muddy and shallow and there are no undercover bosses, pretending to be one of the people who live in houses on stilts on the small islands where the river meets the sea, blends and loses its power; for those who have sailed the oceans no river is big. On the delta, of the great river, live people who get their income from fishing they are poor yet free from prying bosses those who buy the river and the sea for exploitation and make people into low paid worker; destitution without pride. Every group of houses on the islands have a shop that sells sweets, cigarettes and Coca Cola, the fisherman smokes, children drink cola, America´s cultural export reaches every corner of our cerulean orb, Camel is a brand not an animal, Winston is a night riding cowboy. This means nothing for the people here, who try to catch the Boto, (pink river dolphin) which is rich in protein and tastes good.