What Was Under All That Snow?

by The Awl March 20, 2015

What Was Under All That Snow?

by Liz Galvao

• Gum
• Plastic bags
• So many cigarettes

• Matchbooks
• Lost gloves
• A stream of brown water that is actually just dissolved cigarettes

• Gravel
• Potholes
• Four month’s worth of recyclables

• The promise of De Blasio’s New York
• Bike lanes
• Indoor/outdoor cats

• A wad of feathers mashed into the pavement, how o — oh my God, this used to be a bird!
• The next Brooklyn
• A recording of you complaining about how hot it was last summer

• Hipster jokes (they’re not dead yet)
• Used condoms
• Used plastic dog booties (ewwww)

• My latest mixtape, check it out
• A VICE reporter
• A child who didn’t get into the “good” pre-school

• Rocks
• Your super
• Thirty feet of receipt from Duane Reade

• A middle-aged white woman in a pashmina, complaining
• A screenshot from Instagram of that day it was one degree out
• Perfectly preserved dog poop from last Christmas

• A new luxury condo building
• The souls of forty bicycle messengers you murdered when you ordered pad thai during that third blizzard
• One last thinkpiece on why New York sucks now