Dizzy

Last night when we walked Lily we turned onto Elbow Street near the ballfield and heard an ambulance and fire truck approaching. They drove right onto the lit-up baseball field. A bunch of EMT's and firemen wearing blue shirts and blue latex gloves got out. Two nurses aides in pink flower-print scrubs with identity lanyards ran over from the high-rise to see what happened. "Two baseball players collided when reaching for the softball," they reported to the gathering crowd. "One man twisted and fell, breaking his leg. He snapped the bone and it was poking out. Poor guy must be in excruciating pain." I felt dizzy with empathy.