Skeletal Vestiges

About three times a week I take the bus to an area of the city called Floresta, home of a very large Korean community, although not the prettiest area of Buenos Aires, it is also not the worst.  I have three students who each live about three blocks from each other and their apartments are separated by a park.  I have begun to notice something peculiar, parked on the curb adjacent to the park people have begun to leave abandoned vehicles.  Two of them look as though they met a rather unfortunate end, as they are simply the burnt remnants of what was once someone’s vehicle.  Other cars look as though they were involved in an auto accident of some sort, and have been left to wither and rust on Avenida Chivolcoy y Avellaneda.  I wonder how long these sad skeletal vestiges will remain before the city finds the motivation to tow them off to the junk yard.  Knowing Buenos Aires, it will probably be a long time.

"Burnt"