What Was Under All That Snow?
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
• James Gandolfini’s final performance
• The secret to finding an affordable apartment in the city
• Falafel
• Vitamin D
• The middle class
• A community garden
• Your taxes, am I right?
• A parking space, except on Tuesdays and Thursdays
• Kimchi
• More snow