This car is mint; I'm talking like showroom-new. He said it's unlicensed right now because it's not street-legal. I told him about the "grandfather clause" for emissions-testing on older vehicles.
He keeps it parked behind that pull-down behind the car that seems to cover a long-ago gutted storefront. He also had some vintage Schwinn bike parts in the back of the Corolla, and after striking up a conversation about old bikes, he took me to the rear storage area of the storefront where he has about ten antique bikes, most of them in...
Humboldt Park Story # 45623
wasn't for you id be crying
sick lost dopesick dying
stand beneath steel girders
trains roar overhead
like unleashed dragons
and beneath me metal grates
that hold an unstable city
from losing its shape
cold metal and old brick
and,but for you,id be freezing
in indiscriminate...