By Greg Barrett
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As you get used to this idea you will start more and more to concentrate not on results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. qxd 2/5/08 3:29 PM 28 A Page 28 The Gospel of Father Joe t five foot nine and two hundred or so pounds, Father Joe is squat like a bulldog and moves with similar bowlegged resolve. The runner’s physique that carried him to Klong Toey in 1971 is a comfortable sixty-something today, but the anger driving him still burns. I’d seen it on that very first day.
As the crisis continued and gambling dens and drug houses spread in Klong Toey, Father Joe warned city officials and Bangkok Post readers that the well-being of the Slaughterhouse was a barometer for the metropolitan whole. “Tell me what’s happening in the Rong Mu [Slaughterhouse], and I’ll give you a ‘tea leaf’ reading of the city, accurate enough to choose a lottery ticket,” he wrote in a Sunday column as the financial crisis was entering its second year. “Less work. Hungry kids. Less honest ways to earn food money.
Pick one. They were (are) equally prolific. My cab turned for the last time, raced ahead, and then braked suddenly, sending me into the clutches of my seat belt. Dashboard Buddha faded to white. “Coooon. Poooow. Jooooe,” the driver said, staring at me from the rearview mirror. His tone sounded mocking. ” He pointed out the window toward a large wall of buildings. “Soi See-Sip,” he said. ” He craned his neck to look into the backseat and smiled like the joke was on me. “One hundred,” he said in crisp English, speaking fluent Inflated Fare.
