eggs

Yesterday Doug and I were leaving Moody to walk to Kate and Samm's for dinner and we saw these cars stopped on LaSalle, right across from Moody. We couldn't see the ground because the barrier on the median blocked our sight of it, but everyone was really quiet and walking around dazedly, raking their fingers through their hair. When we crossed the street we saw a man laying in the middle of the road, not moving. I was walking my bike on the sidewalk and a passing girl said "makes you want to walk it doesn't it?" Another guy on a bike, late 40s with a blue tooth ear piece and an expensive looking bike was telling someone that he thought the guy was wearing a helmet and that he saw a splatter of blood on the pavement by the guy's head.

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Clinton Miceli

Doored by an SUV, flew into traffic and was run over by a second SUV.

He was pronounced dead at 10:18 that evening.

Four other cyclists have been killed in Chicago since October. Three were in my new neighborhood. One was a Moody grad.

spilled and cracked
raw egg on the frying pan
hard shells brittle and membrane thin
all that protects
all that is in.

who is the cook
and what is his play?
omlettes and chicklets
and SUV dickheads

the fragile
the firm
the lucky
the dead