Alan Harris reading
City Spill
by Alan Harris
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Chicago traffic this morning roars and beeps like a cheap video game. Freakishly, at Wells and Adams, a speeding bicyclist's paper sack spills his stash of shiny bagels all over Wells Street. Heads turn. Two dozen bagels kiss the street at crazy angles, then goofily twirl on empty centers until gravity calms them down in front of some cars at the light. The bicyclist jerks his vehicle over to the curb while hissing inaudible words of concern. Wells Street, now set like a sudden breakfast table, displays to the public a tasty temptation with not one taker. Idling cars restrained before the strewn bagels by a red light now turning green begin to roll bagelward. As if witnessing a friend's execution, the bicyclist clutches his empty sack and glares with grim indignity at the squashings. |
From the book The Wheel of Yes (1995)
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