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title: 'Things I Saw Yesterday'
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date: '2005-07-10T07:13:47-04:00'
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permalink: /things-i-saw-yesterday/
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tags:
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- life
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Last night, I went downtown with some folks from the college to picnic in California Plaza, before last night’s performance, in the [Grand Performances](http://www.grandperformances.org/) series, of [Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu](http://www.naleihulu.org/). The food was fabulous, the company entertaining, the surroundings gorgeous, and the performance enthralling.
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On the way there, we had passed the immediate aftermath of a bus-on-pedestrian accident. No ambulances, no cops, no crowds — just one man lying in the street in a pool of blood, and another man crouched next to him, hand on the injured man’s back, groceries strewn across the street. We were past it in thirty seconds.
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Guess which one I dreamed about last night.
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Guess which one I woke up thinking about this morning.
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\[UPDATE, 7.10.05, 10.29 pm: How can this be nowhere in the LA news? There’s nothing in the paper, nothing on any of the network affiliate websites. I understand certain details not getting published — like the name of the man who was hit, if officials are trying to locate his next of kin, for instance — but nothing, at all? Is a man lying in the middle of the street in a pool of his own blood a sufficiently common experience as not to warrant reporting? Given what I saw, I cannot imagine that the man survived. Wouldn’t there at least be some report of the bus driver either being arrested, or not?\]
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