Missive

Though like this city, it is falling apart in places. Just this weekend, I was walking through a neighborhood looking for a Korean massage when part of a building, a big concrete slab, fell just behind me, smashing to pieces on the sidewalk where I had passed not 2 seconds before and would have most surely resulted in my untimely death. I stood stunned as my friend laughed uncontrollably and I thought of time and death and luck and you saying once, though you probably don't recall, more people die in this city from flower pots falling on their heads than because of swine flu. I think you to be right.