If you are going to be a writer who writes about death, I only ask that you honor the fullness of loss and the space left by loss. On October 18th, as the rains persisted but weakened, Scarface released his third album, The Diary, into a world where no one in his home city could safely get to the store and hold it in their hands. It’s the difference between someone might not survive this and there are people to be buried now. There is ruin, and a cloud of silence-more about a confirmation of what has happened than a signaling of what is coming. The calm after the storm is the one that is eerie. To talk about the calm which comes after a turbulent moment makes for a less romantic cliche. For anyone who has been through a vicious cycle of weather, it is known that there is a calm directly after the storm, too.
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