2007-11-25

Fall Roads

Why do they put those little strips of tar in the road? Those snakelike swirls that wander drunkenly in any direction except straight. Is it to give us traction? Is it physics? Do uneven random surfaces painted here and there across an asphalt surface save the road?

Between these squiggels of tar and the single leaves that blow across the road, I can hardly concentrate on my cell phone. Each leaf appears in my peripheral vision as mouse or a frog or a turtle belatedly gliding home. They all make it unsafe at any speed and the conversations difficult.

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