I think there is in this the stuff for many lyrics:-Ī dago fruit stand at three A.M. Soldiers Home … …Finally, in Constitution Street, where Misael, bereft of sense and reason, killed her with six shots, and the police found her stretched out, supine, dressed in blue organdy.
On Marques de Sapucai Street in Villa Isabel. … Each time Maria Elvira took a new boy-friend, they moved. He could have beaten her, shot her, or stabbed her. …When Maria Elvira discovered she had a pretty mouth, she immediately took a boy-friend.
…Misael took Maria out of “the life,” installed her in a two-storey house in Junction City, paid for the doctor, dentist, manicurist ….
BRAZILIAN TRAGEDY …Misael, civil servant in the Ministry of Labor, 63 years old, …Knew Maria Elvira of the Grotto: prostitute, syphilitic, with ulcerated fingers, a pawned wedding ring and teeth in the last stages of decay.
