I saw a dead body yesterday.

I was riding up 17th with my aunt when I noticed the familiar flicker of the yellow police tape in the wind. My aunt shook her head and told me that a young chico had been shot 5 times on the corner of 111th in broad daylight.

We looked through the crowd of people and saw his body lieing on the street beneath a grey sheet.

“That street got to be hot!” My aunt remarked. “They got him lieing on the street in this hot sun all day!”

As our car pulled away I peered through the back window at the growing mob surrounding the scene.

Welcome to Miami.