Some time ago I reported a mysterious illness that was befalling the sofas of the region, leaving their carcasses rotting on the curbsides almost everywhere I went. That was roughly four months ago.

Alarmingly, the contagion seems to have spread to the refrigerators. Now that the sofa population has been effecively cleared of its weaker specimens (one lonely taupe couch, the last of the plague fallen, flanks the dumpster outside my building) the mysterious microbe has begun feasting on kitchen appliances, mostly the fridges, which are left lifelessly lingering, listing, leaning, and even lying down on the streetsides, their doors permanently ajar, their steel shelves rusting, all the dust bunnies relinquishing their grip on screw-in feet. An occasional dishwasher or dryer has fallen, but it's the refrigerators who are dropping dramatically in population.

Oh the humanity! 

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