Street and garden

In Housing Works on Crosby, she saw a paperback edition of Fanon's The wretched of the earth. It rested nonchalantly next to a heavy reference volume called "The Home Gardener's Problem Solver." She caught the eye of every staffer, trying to discern who had arranged the books so soundly.

It distressed her, on the other hand, to walk down the street on the eve of garbage collection day, especially at the end of the month, when people moved. She thought there oughta be a warehouse somewhere for all the discarded furniture. "What would you have them do with it," he asked. "Take it apart," she said, and "build another ark."