Hoke Moseley lived on Miami Beach,
in a hotel full of holocaust survivors.
They made him move inside the city limits.
He got a house in Green Lakes, and lived there
with his pregnant partner, Ellita Sanchez, and his teenaged daughters.
He hadn't been laid in quite a while. He had a credit card he kept a balance on,
that is, kept a credit on, by paying on his balance every month, so, in an emergency,
he could rent a motel room, if he got lucky. Tak Fujimoto filmed Miami Beach
in Miami Blues. A cruise ship coming in. A dog, catching a Frisbee.
Key Biscayne. The causeway. The ghost of Al Capone.
The ghost of Richard Nixon. Bebe Rebozo, the Tire King.
George Smathers. Marielitos. Affirmative-action
promotion-lists. Cold-case-files. At the end of
New Hope for the Dead, Henderson gets the promotion.
"Dumb luck," Hoke says. "It could have been me."