April 08, 2006
back in your old neghborhood...
Iowa City: On the sidewalk, a girl of indecipherable age (eleven? fifteen?) in a blue gingham dress with white apron, half-sprawled and twisted very much like the figure in this picture 
, except that instead of bracing herself with her arms she had them halfway around a light brown dog to whom she was speaking in childish tones; there were long white socks over her dessicated legs, and her aluminum forearm crutches lay on the dirty sidewalk next to the dog and her, in front of the chain record store, through the door of which came Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper."