This is the dead tree by my apartment. When I got home from the gas station earlier, it had left five branches in our driveway. I keep telling the apartment leasing office that it is going to kill us because it is a veritable lightening rod and the apartments up the road from us were struck THREE times by lightening last month. My renter's insurance only covers so much. Right now, I am listening to the perfect music for the death of this tree and the rain and the tantalizing shoe store in the distance. It is Chopin's Prelude in E Minor, and it is very melancholy...
