Getting to Suzy’s
This real life of cityscapes and sidewalks can destroy you.
José Vadi is an award-winning poet, playwright, and essayist living in Oakland, California. His writing has most recently appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, HOLD: a journal, McSweeney's and Catapult.
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