From the Window of Danelle's school you can see it... Hastings runs through gastown and... bend... a slight... fraction off course... hid under towers... behind those happy street lights... it follows... on the far side... curious?... take the red pill... cross over... into the rabbit hole... down East Hastings... definitely off the straight and narrow... a gliche in the system... miles off course in 10 steps... Pilgrim's Progress revulsion for the new millenium... the way is tempting (the PNE is at the far end)... the fall is quick (red light)... and the trap is sprung... can an angel save you? (is there a cop in the area?)... take the whip as punishment... a reminder... if only just to leave... or get through... this is the what happens the second you pass Richards... the second you take the turn...
... this small kilter in the road sees you into extremely uncomfortable, "lock your doors roll up your windows"... "drive in the middle lane" Bizarro land... this '6 cop cars in a 3 block radius' abscess of Vancouver shows a group of people huddled around a girl in the process of shooting up... prostitutes going onto streets towards cars stopped at a red light, her skirt so high it wears as a top... clearly strung out on something... shaking... yelling at nothing in particular... wonder... what her story is... all of them... unique... and uniquely cursed onto this street... a mix of fear and pity grips you... how did they get like this?... ... ...
... it shows cops all through the area... acting more to protect those forced to traverse the place than to stop anything BLATANTLY illegal...
... and just packed... hundreds of people outline the streets... the indoors are all boarded up, barred up... for sale... for rent... a broken down mess... the bakery is moldy bread set out on a table cloth... the bar walls tell the story of this graffiti scrawled lost... do not... thou shalt not... if the 6 guys leaning on the walls and 12 others staring out the windows aren't warning enough... please light turn green...
... all 2 blocks from where the Canucks play... literally on top of Gas town... and a horribly short 5 blocks from Danelle's school... this is also the gaunltet we will have to take to get to the PNE this summer... now a very big IF...
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