PHOTO OF THE DAY: GHOST BUILDING - IQUITOS, PERU
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This building was destined to be one of the tallest buildings in Iquitos, which still didn't make it all that tall, maybe 15 stories. Word on the street was the builders had gotten this far when it was discovered they didn't have the right zoning or building permits or something to that effect. Know its shell haunts the city.

What follows is an except from the story-poem, "The Plane from Iquitos [1959-Part One]," by Dennis Siluk:

I liked Iquitos, especially the Iron House, the very one made by none other then Mr. Eiffel, the one who made the tower in Paris. I had eaten for the first time Pirana Roia, it was delicious, except for the many bones, and the fish wasn't all the big once you cut the head off, although the teeth looked like a baby sharks', dead and unpleasing. I had caught a few fishing, if there was a secret to that. I used a stick for a fishing rod, and tied a string on it with a semi-big hook, and put a big piece of meat on it. Then when the fish takes hold of it, the Pirana that is, he doesn't chew it, or even bit into it like other fish, he rips it outward, and so at first touch, the fisherman has to yank it upward to hook the fish right under his upper teeth. He had a big low jaw, but a small upper portion to his head so if you do not do this he will not be hooked. Actually you may hook his upper teeth for they extend out as do the lower ones.

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