emerging from stockton tunnel.

the corner poultry shop on broadway. "Is it famous?"

Sometimes you see these birds walking on the sidewalks and out into the streets, around the parked cars, dreaming they'll be safe there I guess. They got away for the time being. This one hanging must not have been able to escape, or maybe she just gave up. It's pretty rough. Maybe she couldn't imagine herself out of there. "Two things you have to always try and remember down here," she said rapidly to us witnesses, she gesturing for strength, watchful, "don't get busted, and don't get killed. Stay in your strata. I always did and I was OK... well, except once, and see what happened."