Gringos in Wonderland

Loa Allebach
English 121

It's 6am. A dead grey cat lays stiff on the sidewalk, crumpled in a heap. A screeching car alarm has been piercing the air for at least 20 minutes. The ragged single mother in the building next door yells at her kids in Spanish. An impatient parent blares his horn outside the living room window… the smell of fried eggs, sulfur, marijuana smoke and trash wafts up through the alley as families of rats and cockroaches scurry off to their daytime beds. Someone is blasting mariachi music as the neighborhood homeless begin to stir and take the day's first swigs of cheap whiskey. It is another glorious morning in the City of Angels.
Buried doggedly under my comforter I try snuggling deeper into my pillow to catch five more precious minutes of sleep, but soon realize it is hopeless. Admittedly awake, my heavy eyelids concede with a groan to my growling stomach, I might as well get out of bed.
My neighborhood is......

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Title: Gringos In Wonderland
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