On Fox Street, there\u2019s a series of apartments that are single rooms with an attached toilet.\u00c2\u00a0 Under Fox Street, the toilets are shared.<\/p>\n
Typically, four or five or even seven people live in one of these rooms.\u00c2\u00a0 They\u2019re actually fairly large, considering, and a few strategically placed bits of plywood or sheets hanging from the ceiling can give you the impression of a sprawling mansion.\u00c2\u00a0 At least, when compared with the rooms under Fox Street.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a man, lives alone in one of these rooms.\u00c2\u00a0 His neighbors cook for him, bring him choice meals, do his laundry, wash his windows, change the light bulb when it goes out.\u00c2\u00a0 They bring him paper, and plenty of pens, so he fills notebooks with foreign words arranged nonsensically and obscure schematic drawings and rhyming couplets and doodling of the girls he hasn\u2019t yet met.<\/p>\n
Somehow, the doodled girls show up at his door the following Friday night, or sometimes on a Tuesday afternoon, and sometimes they stay for days.<\/p>\n
This man on Fox Street, he doesn\u2019t say much.\u00c2\u00a0 He\u2019s polite.\u00c2\u00a0 He will say hello, and thank you, and on occasion comments about a particular shade of red he\u2019s seen in the sky.<\/p>\n
No one\u2019s sure how old he is.\u00c2\u00a0 He shaves twice a day, removing every hair everywhere.\u00c2\u00a0 No one\u2019s ever seen him outside his one room apartment.<\/p>\n
On Fox Street, this man will show you pages in his notebooks and tell you of his dreams and sometimes share a slice of pie brought to him by Mrs. Fleet.\u00c2\u00a0 Mrs. Fleet bakes the pies.\u00c2\u00a0 No one knows where she gets the fresh fruits.\u00c2\u00a0 She makes her own whipped cream.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s dangerous to walk on Fox Street, day or night, if you don\u2019t belong.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u2019s dangerous to walk under Fox Street no matter who you are.\u00c2\u00a0 They take care of their own on Fox Street.\u00c2\u00a0 The shadows have permanent eyes.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, burglary is not uncommon, and pickpocketry, and purse snatchery.<\/p>\n
No one has ever tried to take anything out of this one apartment on Fox Street, in which the old, hairless man lives.\u00c2\u00a0 Rumors persist that thieves break in to leave gifts instead.<\/p>\n
Tonight, this old man on Fox Street sings quietly to himself, though the girl on his bed listens to his song and is moved in ways both spiritual and cosmic.<\/p>\n
Tonight, this man on Fox Street relates a story to a baker\u2019s daughter about a witch and how to count to a dozen.<\/p>\n
Tonight, this old man on Fox Street shares Mrs. Fleet\u2019s pecan pie with a stranger from Barcelona.<\/p>\n
And tonight, this old man on Fox Street sketches a face on a page of his notebook, a face with eyes very much like your eyes, and a strikingly familiar bone structure, and a nose that is unmistakably your nose.\u00c2\u00a0 He draws the smile you wear now, rather than the expression you\u2019ll show him later.\u00c2\u00a0 On Fox Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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