Girolamo Pétasse and Gerrit Lairesse

The Cundinamarca brothers of Bogotá lived off the avails of the Brno sisters (of Jihomoravsky Kraj), pimping them out to whomever would avail themselves of the sister’s travails. The Nicosia sisters lived behind the livery where the Cundinamarca brothers boarded their horses. The Nicosia sisters were known for their charm and beauty, the youngest sister so eye-catching men swooned in her presents. The eldest of the sisters, once a woman of such undying beauty men toppled over backwards when she walked in the room, was equally renowned for her skill at ball the jack and slight of hand. The house behind the livery towered above the treetops, affording an unfettered view of the mountains beyond where the dogmen were born to a dogman and woman.

The Cundinamarca brothers (of Bogotá) boarded their horses in the livery behind the convenience shop on the corner of 5th and Seventeen. The brothers owned an appaloosas, a roan, a dappled roan and a white and black Balearic gilding. The brothers one day hoped to own a Ferghana stallion a Galloway pony a Karacabey draught horse an Irish Hobby horse a Spanish Jennet a Mazury trotter a Narragansett Pacer a Neapolitan jumper a Nisean sidesaddle galloper a Yorkshire Trotter an Öland prancer an Old English Black pony a Pozan steeple chaser a Turkoman Akhal-Teke and a Yorkshire Coach Horse.

The world begins and ends in Perpignan. Lela’s grandmamma was given birth to on a hardwood bench in a train station. Alone, eyes pressed tight into the back of her skull, Lela’s great-great grandmamma grunted Lela’s grandmamma from the sewer of her belly, a dewy pluck spilling onto the train station floor. From that day forward Lela’s grandmamma was destine for smaller things, things easily forgotten, lesser things. The Treponema brothers lived nearby, the eldest brother working as a redcap, the youngest as a ticket collector. Their mamma, born to a Quaker family in South Pallidum, worked as a seamstress for the Bejel Linen Co., working day in and day out to support her two weakly boys. The owner of the Bejel Linen Co., Girolamo Pétasse, a portly man with fine delicate hands, lived high off the hog, selling bold linens and checkered skirts to halfwits and imbeciles. The twins father, Gerrit Lairesse, sold saltboxes and divining rods from the boot of his car, a 1967 Vauxhall Imperial, and was known far and wide as a womanizing blackguard.