Narcopolis Condition:Like New may deliberately choose an unusual

may deliberately choose an unusual

It is the subject of countless poems and paintings

Until the day Ma admits there's a world outside

In the tradition of Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill

The Giraffe

Narcopolis Condition:Like New may deliberately choose an unusualWait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only