Ask Your Big Brother what Shoes on Power Lines Really Mean
Green_Canary recalls what her big brother told her about the meaning of shoes dangling from telephone wires as a child:
When I lived in New York, I used to see pairs of shoes dangling from the telephone lines. I used to think, in my adolescent haze, that they got there through some cosmic process, like osmosis. (Which really isn’t cosmic as much as it biologic. Biological. Whatever.) My big brother, ever wise, told me that they were signs of gang activity, and that every time I saw a pair of shoes on a wire, I could be certain that someone died there. I would see those shoes everywhere, and my child’s heart would think about the person who had ceased to be under those wires. I thought a lot about death because of those shoes.
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