Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Gatesgate

This may be the first time we've actually enjoyed reading something on Livejournal (though we might've started off with something more like "Among snowless Cambridge streets / the only moving thing / was the hand of the black man"). Choice excerpts from ayun's take:

II.
The unused tricycle.
And the occupied holding cell.

VI.
Everyone should be afraid of the police.
Even though no one should have to.

XIII.
I too have had
Just-got-back-from-Asia jet lag.
It makes you crazy.

Via UHub.