I'm
looking out at the corner of 1st street and 3rd avenue, at a town so simple as
to make a grid superfluous. Part of me wonders whether the residents are just
that stupid (if they were smarter, they wouldn't live in Montana) or whether
this little prairie town has, for the past fifty years, been expecting rapid
urbanization any day now.
1st
street. The town treats these railroad tracks like a river.
There is
a boarded up dark blue home on 1st street. If you look down a dirt path that
tracks behind the houses, you can see an abandoned school bus. Nothing exceeds
two stories around 1st street. Somehow being behind glass, knowing you'll soon
travel on, scenes like this don't look real. The America I see looks far more
American than any America I've touched.
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