Road Killers

Surely the most frightening thing on the roads tonight will be the automobiles, especially the single occupancy vehicles which clog the life-blood of the city like a diseased vampire. The number of traffic deaths in NYC up to the end of 9/13 was 203, while the number of homicides was 242 (the NYPD rarely considers death by car as homicide); but I’m also thinking about the burning of gasoline that’s heating the future, and the particulate they pump into our lungs.

This possum isn’t playing dead. (I’ve spared you the picture of the deer chunks on the MetroNorth tracks, being pecked by crows.)