Silent Running

I took a ride after deciding it was time to run with the dogs tonight in suburbia. I am in Lakeview. I am at the Felix’s on Lakeshore Drive, the Lakeshore Drive in New Orleans—not the one in Mandeville.

The world will not die with a bang, but a whimper, as New Orleans sinks beneath the waves, reabsorbed into the swamplands that surround it, from whic…