22 METERS 72 FEET MOSQUITO CREEK, 6 FEET DEEP.
words and photosby dylan doubt
paying respects to a haunting spot.
This title is taken from a stanza in a poem found at a memorial for Douglas Lenard “Chewy” Glenn, a young man who lost his life when he hopped over a guardrail to find that the ground wasn’t where he had hoped it would be. Lenard had been partying with friends, got in a bit of a fight, and somehow ended up making this tragic mistake. His memorial sits not six feet away from another one, that of Ryan Morales De La Costa, who less than a year before had made the same fatal mistake. Rumour has it that Ryan was running from the police. The police, of course, claim that he was simply hopping over the rail to “relieve himself”. Why someone would choose the centre of an overpass to take a leak is beyond me, especially (when they’re being pursued by the police) with the police in pursuit. Regardless, it is a bummer. A bummer indeed.
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