The Cadillac and the Long Island Expressway

The Long Island Expressway was built the year Hitler invaded Poland, and thus expanded his continental ambitions for the mass murder of the Jews. The soundscape becomes tamped down, interiorized, like when we jump into the pool and hear the thud of blood in our ears. Halfway through claustrophobia sets in, and it really does seem as if there will never be an end to it, never a light at the end of the tunnel. But just someone that seems as though we too may somehow get trapped and die prematurely down there, the lane at last veers,. daylight shines forth through the arch up ahead, and we are spat out onto the other shore, and guided