What I saw on the bus today
- A massive Hummer H2, brand new (jerks)
- A lady wearing spandex who shouldn’t have
- Reflections within reflections in the Jewel Heart Store window
- Yet another Jimmy John’s store a scant 5 blocks from the other one and 3 doors up from another pizza place
- A frantic, roaring ambulance
- The back of the hidden Arb, which I haven’t thought of in years
- A milkweed patch all bursting
- The sign at the VA Hospital which says “Supporting our troops” which should probably say “Attempting, despite massive budget cuts and a thousand lies to ACTUALLY support our troops and having a really tough time of it”
- Mist on the river with the sumacs on fire and the fields full of fallen leaves
- Kids transparently skipping school
- A secret hidden path by the highway
- A dead swan
- A dead woodchuck
- A great, huge, gaggle of live geese
But the most fearsome, awe, panic and pity inspiring, and thought provoking thing I was exposed to today, was seeing the man they call Eyes Without A Face for the first time.
Some say it’s cancer, some say it’s a failed suicide by gun. I had heard stories but was still not prepared for the actual sight. It’s so very dreadful.
I don’t yet, and may never, have words for this.
posted by Stella Magdalen @ 10/12/2005 05:29:00 PM
3 Comments:
I have learned now that his name is John, and that it was indeed self-inflicted.
I wonder if for him this is like when Shane McGowan says-"Never knew there where things worse than dieing" or if he's actually glad or grateful it didn't work.
I knew a kid where it didn't work by hanging, but he caught a huge case of brain damage instead.......
...I always wondered what his story was. I see him biking around from time to time. Ouch.
Yes it's really pathetic in all the true sense of the word.
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