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thursday, july 08, 2004
Reinforced iron and summer

Reinforced-iron towers rise into the cloudy sky at a construction site in downtown LA.

There’s a lot of construction going on in downtown.

A girl dressed in black reading a book under some trees near a street corner.

Summer school began yesterday. English 10B and Biology B are just busywork. Not that bad.

The other students are interesting. There are hundreds (a thousand?) of them and we’re all terribly sullen: it’s school and it’s cold in the mornings and nearly all of us are taking classes over again.

The school itself is worth paying attention to, all raggedy around the edges, gum stains on concrete staircases, announcements heralded by piercing beeps, and graffiti that says “Roll” where the wall once said “Rock”.


Something I’m working on.

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