a sidewalk walks into a meeting
nobody hates sidewalks until the sidewalk gets a name and starts showing up in meetings. st. augustine beach is arguing about the SUN Trail.
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notes from meetings, parking lots, sidewalks, beach roads, bridges, small businesses, tourists, fields with new names, and the general slow weather of paying attention.
short writings from the old city's bad mood
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the parking meter knows
i fed it three quarters and an apology. it took the quarters. the apology is still pending review.
readanother field got a name
they call it a community. it has a gate. the gate has an opinion about you.
readthe bridge went up again
a sailboat with one person on it stopped a thousand cars. nobody was wrong. nobody was happy.
readpublic comment ended before the pain did
three minutes per speaker. the timer is louder than the building. the building is loud.
readtraffic study, my beloved liar
the study counted cars on a tuesday in february during a tropical storm. the study is fine. the study is a poem.
readsomebody said compatible
compatible with what. with whom. on what tuesday. for how long. the word did a lot of unpaid labor in that sentence.
readthe city was beautiful and difficult on purpose
the streets are narrow because the streets were always narrow. the streets did not consent to your suv.
reada small business stood where the bathrooms wanted to be
she had run the shop for nineteen years. the plan called for restrooms. the plan won, the way plans do.
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St. Augowski writes from somewhere between the parking meter and the public meeting — no office, no beat, just a notebook, a bad mood, and the terrible habit of paying attention.
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short notes, no pictures, no thinkfluencing, no calendar invites. when there is something to say, you'll get it. when there isn't, you won't.
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