Los Angeles - Initial Impressions

The plane skims a carpet of light. Every passenger a star in
Waiting. Ancient Jewish shops on Fairfax flank the Shalom Retirement
Home. Smell of eucalyptus and orange blossom. Beverly Hills
Suburbia; Surrey with palms. Mexicans selling mangos and
Their skills in the hardware carpark. The etymologic city:
Sunset and Mulholland and Melrose and Beverly and so on.
A city you’ve never visited but sense you know backwards. Though
You don’t. Because real life’s not like it happens in the movies.

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