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today i saw something that's rare for seattle: shadows! i'd almost forgotten people cast their own doubles against aurora street bridge supports and windowless sides of stores guess i've got one too but i kept it behind me eyes closed, face to the sun night is the shade of the planet we're sitting under it starts with happy hour at Gould Hall where Icelandic Elias is dwarfed and finds it faster to crawl on the muppie studio terrace you can smoke an American Spirit, take a piss, and watch the traffic go back and forth the bare-bellied waitress at Flowers asks, Can I get you anything else? Tell her what you need and she says hers is at home but you can try the sidewalk outside the 7-11 your friend goes in for chocolate while you loiter with a cigarette but young missionary women scare the dealers away as they try to save a recumbent bum who tells them to turn around so he can have a better look at their butts walk around the block and thru Safeway parking lot before meeting a broker who'll take you to a corner where across the street an arrest is underway but the guy with the goods nods OK after first asking if you're a cop and then says Hell no! when you ask him the same at BP break a twenty for a pack of gum and give the guy 19 bucks the middleman gets his fee and the rain starts so you go back home on the bus, hand in pocket the whole way fingering the bud oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 16 photos from a day in seattle this page best viewed at 800x600 with a 4.0 or better non-AOL browser oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo