Homicide: Now and Then
(excerpt)HOMICIDE: February 14, 1912
The hottest summer in years has not slowed down the spread of the rebellion in Mexico as shown by dispatches tonight. Bodies in ditches, pile up in garbage dins, half covered in dust. Blood like dust in the sun. The wicked look of peace.
The rebels have overrun Laguna district in Coahuila and appeared in the states of Durango, Zacatecas, and Guanajuato. Widows and the midnight wail. Flies. Swarming the moon. Priests and old women filling the wells. Young girls fainting. Loins giving birth to targets.
In the south, Zapatistas continue their campaign and in Guerrero followers of Salgado are showing remarkable activity. Proclamations dangling from trees. Torn, shredded, flayed. Print martyred to lead.
The government has repeatedly said the Salgado uprising is practically ended. Bullet holes in cement walls. Blood running down. As if the walls were bleeding. As if the walls were the innocent victims of the revolution.
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