Neighbors

A Chinese brother and sister, the little black boy form next-door. Three children of Curacao, home to Libanese and Indians, Pakistanies and Portuguese, Javanese and Jamaicans, Sicilians and Surinamese, Dominicans and Danes, Colombians and Canadians, Argentines and Swedes, Venezuelans and Panamanians, Cubans and North Americans, Haitians and Swiss, full and half Dutchmen, Jews and Catholics, Muslims and Hindustanis, Taoist and, of course, a great many godless. Little island, big inmigrant ship.

Jan Brokken