I forgot what street I always bike down to get to In-N-Out, so I open the map on my iPhone. It does this thing every once in a while when it doesn't show the zoomed-in of where I am, like the surrounding blocks. Instead I'm looking at a zoomed-out flat map of the world. It's the first time it's actually given me pause though...
My fingers zoom in, and there it is. It's Garfield Avenue. As for tonight, I'm paying much more attention to the important things, not names.
I'd never really noticed it before, but all down Garfield there are only streetlights on the right side of the street ,save for one at the very end, almost at Lincoln. This solitary light on the dark side of the street's blinked at me the last two times I've passed it--once last week, once also the week before. It would be dark, and I would be lost in my usual world, not paying attention, and as I'd ride by, it'd flash twice, quickly, in quick succession. Tonight there was no flash, no blinking at me. The entire west-side of the street was dark, and stayed dark. I'm paying much more attention tonight.
I wonder if Garfield is trying to tell me something, something about the dark side and the light.
[I'm supposed to write a novel on neo-colonialism and a new world order]
It ends in death and "I open my eyes."
