Krishna and Other Rogues

Vancouver, BC, Canada.
There's a passage I love in Suketu Mehta's book Maximum City:

"Bombay is the biggest, fastest, richest city in India. It is Bombay that Krishna could have been describing in the Tenth Canto of the Bhagavad Gita, when the god manifests himself in all his fullness:

I am all-destroying death

And the origin of things that are yet to be . . .

I am the gambling of rogues;

the splendour of the splendid.

It is a maximum city."

So Liz Wesik takes me up a Vancouver mountaintop and with my head out of the car window, I inhale trees and remember that there are cities outside of New York and that all of them deserve homage.  And so we fashion a makeshift a shrine to Krishna.