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BQE Detritus, as found during the NYPD 76th...
Brooklyn! Queens! Here lies your detritus, as found during the NYPD 76th precinct BQE patrols:
1. Your cloth-and-speckled-rubber dot work glove, which lasted through two weeks of day-labor construction gigs, jobs you got while standing at the corner of Flushing and Classon Avenues inhaling the sweet odors of BP Petroleum tankers rumbling over your head.
2. Your action figures. Bendy Spiderman...
The Milk Crate Story.
Sufjan Stevens was found in a milk crate on the doorstep of Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, in Detroit, MI, on Canada Day, July 1, 1975. He was wrapped in cellophane, and tagged on the wrist with the mysterious note: “I love you.” Mr. and Mrs. Stevens had three other children: Jo-Jo, Zukey-Dukey, and Jam-Jam. Mrs. Stevens crocheted afghans for the flea market. Mr. Stevens was the custodian at...
I shrugged my shoulders and resigned myself to the same silly foreign name, a...
– Sufjan Stevens