New Town

I'm not sure about the town I've relocated to. My neighbor has an old rusted, orange Gremlin sitting up on blocks and perhaps the richest sound system I've ever heard in a car. He sits in it for hours on end, head-banging to heavy metal music until I can see cascades of blood coming out of his nose and slinging all over the car. But he does seem very happy.

I was, however, creeped out by what smells like rotted flesh wafting from his place, but I noticed when he came over and introduced himself, he smelled strongly of rotted flesh and actually did have large clumps of rotted flesh on him, so I guess that's just him.

Then there's the huge condor perched all hours on his roof. The neighbor tells me that's his pet, Carl. Neighbor says he's 39 years old, smokes half a pack a day and is just a sweetheart.... but that's not how he looks at me. I don't know about this.