Magic Tricks

This is the hotel where the secret police pulled on tongues with pliers. They don’t do
that anymore in this location.

Marvel at this carving you can visit and grok some facts re: genocide, a somber edifice
to be sure. You will probably not be thrown out of this helicopter.

But if you were, thirty years from now someone will be able to buy a hot dog here.

Corey Hill is a human rights activist, journalist, parent, and occasional tree climber. On the masthead at Taco Bell Quarterly. Journalism in The Independent, Yes!, Alternet, others. Fiction and poetry in Elm Leaves Journal, Antithesis, Prole, Sierra Nevada Review, more. Second place in the St. John's County Creative Writing Contest, Grade 5. Still smarting from that one.