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November 29, 2005
For Weeks Now
I could not sleep at all last night. I was so anxious and punchy, it was painful to keep trying, so at 6:37 am, stir-crazy and too jittery to sit still and read, I decided to go for a walk. It was raining, and I had my eyes to the pavement to aid the brim of my hat in keeping water off my glasses and out of my eyes. On 16th and Dolores, just outside the Mission Dolores church, this was stenciled in white paint twice on the pavement. It is hard to make out in the crappy cell phone picture, but the words read:
EVERY TIME
THE PHONE
RINGS I HOPE
IT IS HER . . . .
FOR WEEKS
NOW
In both places, the letters had been covered over with grayish red spray paint in what I assume was a failed effort to make them blend with the pavement. It was pretty, seeing that there, on the pavement, outside the church, at an empty early hour with sky lightening into day, and the night rain quieting into a warm hush of fog.
Posted by hissycat at November 29, 2005 08:12 AM