The Bum's Rush
“We rolled by close enough for me to see him moisten his fingers at his small mouth and delicately turn a page in a crisp National Geographic.
"What now?" Jed asked as we cruised past.
"Go up to the light and take a right." He followed directions. "Keep following the wall," I said as we headed north down 144th. Piece by piece, a steel-and-Plexiglas Metro bus stop extruded itself into the headlights' path.
"Pull over up here. Up past the bus stop," I said.
Jed slipped the car to the curb, shut do...wn, and turned off the lights.
We were at the north side of the complex. Ryder Avenue Northwest. Even in the ghostly purple light, decline peeked out from the untrimmed shrubs, littered low with cans and bottles, decorated above with shiny bits of windblown refuse stuck crookedly up among the knobby roots.
Middlebrow 'burbs working their way toward low. A scant three blocks from the strip malls, which even here lit the night to the point where no stars were visible in a clear sky. Probably changed hands and lost a lot of equity when they put this pig of a project in across the street.MoreLess
"What now?" Jed asked as we cruised past.
"Go up to the light and take a right." He followed directions. "Keep following the wall," I said as we headed north down 144th. Piece by piece, a steel-and-Plexiglas Metro bus stop extruded itself into the headlights' path.
"Pull over up here. Up past the bus stop," I said.
Jed slipped the car to the curb, shut do...wn, and turned off the lights.
We were at the north side of the complex. Ryder Avenue Northwest. Even in the ghostly purple light, decline peeked out from the untrimmed shrubs, littered low with cans and bottles, decorated above with shiny bits of windblown refuse stuck crookedly up among the knobby roots.
Middlebrow 'burbs working their way toward low. A scant three blocks from the strip malls, which even here lit the night to the point where no stars were visible in a clear sky. Probably changed hands and lost a lot of equity when they put this pig of a project in across the street.MoreLess
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