the dog saw.

walking out this morning we crossed the alley and heard a yorkie barking wildly in a second story window in the yellow brick building, it was the same size as a silver buddha with his back facing out in the same window. the yorkie had to go around the buddha running back and forth along the windowsill. i smiled up at them and then my eyes dropped to the sidewalk, which was colored with thick dark blood. 
we saw a birder across the other bridge on the island talking to a black security s.u.v. so we turned toward darrow bridge and saw that a section of fence was open and crossed. i lifted mister through the rails on the far side. 
crossing the blues brothers bridge where r. collected 9mm shell casings last week i looked for more souvenirs and found no new ones. and no blood. there was house music throbbing through the meadow and a lone red-winged blackbird singing a love song. we turned around and went home.
funny, i didn't notice if the blood was still congealed there on the way back. then i learned about the shooting in front of the yellow brick building at 9:28 pm last night when r. and i were walking home from an amplified cello concert and a black and white s.u.v. roared past with a tow truck in pursuit. 
i had trouble sleeping last night thinking about being evicted from my studio. i started out today thinking if i am evicted i'm lost in obombaland. there's nothing else i can afford. but maybe the obomba magic will dissolve all the gun violence or gentrify all the violence west and south, maybe if there's no affordable housing there will be no crime? with the added tax revenues there will be more police and the park will be denuded and surveilled and no one will go there to shoot each other because they'll first be shot by the police or secret service. so the ones who survive gentrification will get the neighborhood money deserves, with more gun control and more enforced peace.

 
postscript. 

March 17, 2018 
Man shot, killed on Cornell
A 39-year-old man was shot and killed in what appeared to be a targeted shooting the evening of Friday, March 16.University of Chicago Police and the Chicago Police Department responded to calls of shots fired at 5457 S. Cornell Ave. around 9:30 p.m. The victim was shot multiple times in the head, chest and leg and brought in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was was later pronounced dead.
No suspects are currently in custody, and C.P.D. detectives are investigating the shooting.


well, i'd say we need more police and more guns, more surveillance, prisons, armed teachers, armed park employees. we need so any guns people are afraid they'll be shot by anyone at any time just for looking the wrong way.