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    The Drake

    Bangkok Dawn

    Apr 17, 2020 3 minutes
    BY JUSTIN WITT

    I SAW THEM the first morning as I stood choking down shitty hotel coffee and staring out our window from the 24th floor. Fish. Rising and rolling. Right below me in the canals. Holy shit. Dawn was breaking and the Adhan pouring out of the mosque seven blocks away seemed loud enough to wake the whole city.

    I could see at least three miles of river spread across a grid of right

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