I Believe… [The Stink of Neighborhoods]

...that one can make a lot of assumptions about the neighborhoods in Chicago but there is no escaping the fact that the Red Line smells like piss and weed and the Brown Line does not.

...that the old make way for the young, whether they want to or not. They can fight it, but they’ll lose.

...that if you give a blind man a loaded pistol and stand a hundred yards away, the only way you get shot is if you scream at him.

...that when one starts to look for a bed to purchase, hope is still alive.

...that America’s headlines look like a Mad Libs experiment gone wrong.