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01/02/2004: "Flock"

They have vultures for neighbors. There are a couple of dozen of them, I suppose. The high school sits in a residential neighborhood on the southeast side of a hill; the oval of the track is just off the street and is overlooked by grandstands, facing south. The morning sun hits the hill, the track, the stands, and the vultures gather there and lazily spread their wings. As the thermals rise they can spiral off, to the nearby shopping center, where the dumpsters are full of refuse from the grocery store, Burger King, and Chinese restaurant. My friends live in the house adjacent to the school. I've heard them complain about traffic but never about carrion-eaters. Hard to tell them from the students, maybe.