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Friday October 30, 2026 |
| going to tomoko's auto care is stepping into the past-- a grimy garage in an old warehouse, the kind of place they'd find the body in a 1970's tv crime drama, complete with period correct Super Cobra with its hood up just gathering dust. after leaving our car for service, i walked 2 miles to SODO light rail station, leaves wet from morning rain dripped on me with every breeze and it felt nice. took my time, ambled over the hump of 4th ave south overpass, paused at its peak, looked down on the reason seattle is here, the lines of steel stretching back into the 19th century, track after track of sprawling freight yard, the young city's heart that pumped to a locomotive rhythm. |
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and it never stopped. today, standard steel boxes packed tight with stuff are lifted off flatcars, slotted onto truck trailers for the short drive to the harbor where cargo cranes graze like dinosaurs. further on, a golden sarcophagus for an extinct politics: FDR's whistlestop campaign car, a museum piece relegated to serve as a chinese restaurant--the orient express, formerly andy's diner--where a lone crow looked right through me, seeing my future as a ghost... |