Looking for last year’s tax return I found this blip from August 11, 2013. What?
Women and men in their automobiles, at first oblivious to the melée, were instead subsumed by an aerial avalanche of wings and molt.
Millions of moths swarmed the intersection of Northern Boulevard and Steinway Street this morning, commencing a thick spectacle expected to last weeks. The moths descended on Western Beef, the soon-to-be-demolished grocery store to be replaced by luxury condominiums for people who don’t live there.
The moths, bred by an eccentrically modified human orgasm, were there on a reconnaissance mission to evaluate the intersection’s structural stability.
A 29-year-old construction worker, unaware his integrity had slipped from the lip of his truck’s reflective bumper, inhaled a small quantity of the moths, choking at first but quickly coming to appreciate their urgency, and their starchy texture.
Others followed suit. Teachers and priests stopped their vehicles, stepping onto Northern Boulevard’s pavement hoping for a foodless life. Wealthy and indigent alike grabbed fistfuls of moths, shoveling the flapping beasts into their mouths like sands through misshapen hourglasses.
The intersection’s hyperlocal news source, reporting from another country, quickly fabricated quotes from the crowd about the unique flavor of the moths’ attempts to escape their mouths.
The moths, for their part, swallowed afternoons and nights, shitting them into the morning.
