Rodriguez: Coming in From the Cold
j. poet, Alarm, July 2008
RODRIGUEZ IS ON STAGE in a bar called The Sewer by the Sea. The club is filled with smoke, thick almost blinding smoke, as dense as the fog that's rolling in off of the Detroit River which flows by outside. As the freighters go by sounding their horns, the building shakes.
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