I need a steam shovel, mama, to keep away the dead.

[robby]

I'm seeing so many of those roadside shrines to the dead. I guess the custom has come from Mexico, but it strikes me as morbid. Years ago, they were a curiosity, but now flowers and pictures and balloons are sprouting up on the roadsides everywhere. I drive through an immense graveyard everyday, to and from work. One in particular bothers me. It's on the southbound side of 101, near the Lawrence Expressway, in Sunnyvale. I guess a motorcyclist bought it there, and his fucking HELMET is on an orange cone, surrounded by withered flowers and plants, with tattered pictures.

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was the helmet dented?

[crackpipe.livejournal.com]

suprized nobody stole it.
and of course people steal flowers from cemetaries all the time.either to move to a differnt grave or to give to the girlfriend.
i bet the most cemetary flower robberies happen on valentines day.

Re: was the helmet dented?

[robby.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there's grey goop inside of it. Should I send the helmet to you? His ghost might be pissed if I snatch it.