
Rebecca Gayle Howell (ed.)
et al.
Published online:
18 May 2023
Published in print:
07 March 2023
Online ISBN:
9780813197418
Print ISBN:
9780813182438
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Chapter
Lyft Asks Drivers to Share an Inspiring New Year’s Eve Story, Miami 2019
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222–223
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Published:March 2023
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Chambless, Cathleen, 'Lyft Asks Drivers to Share an Inspiring New Year’s Eve Story, Miami 2019', in Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones, and Emily J. Jalloul (eds), What Things Cost: an anthology for the people (Lexington, KY , 2023; online edn, Kentucky Scholarship Online, 18 May 2023), https://doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813182438.003.0093, accessed 14 May 2025.
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Wynwood infests Overtown,pink high heels, Prada bags, Becky’s,tons of lyke omg selfies!I try to explain to teenage passengers,whose fathers invest in Wynwood,No, it is not making the neighborhood better.Meanwhile, Downtown isa python spewing skyscrapers thatmeld and slither over Overtown,leaving metallic acid and screams,because building I-95 wasn’t enough.Brickell expands slams symmetry & cement.This is called New Brickell;This is Little Havana.Built of Cuban Linx & roosters’ crows& I love every cock-a-doodle conjuring,but hate the peeps of rich snowbirds &snow fledglings attemptsagainst a sound that can’t be put to death.The Ceiba tree, with iron spikes and hidden jars,every root groove a portalcupping dirt that sprouts jade bladed gallo tail feathers.Botanicas replaced by barsNothing is Holy.Little Haiti demands to exist even if it’s called Lemon City now.The Haitian Cultural Center even has a different name.Local stores & restaurants soon board up,fireflies crushed in a hand.Knowledge means nothing—A sixty-year-old passenger asks me what I do aside from Lyft,I’m a college professor.You must think you’re clever, don’t you?Yes, I’m intelligent.I drop him off at Gold Finger, a gentlemen’s club,he doesn’t tip, I pick upa stripper, an eighteen-year-old, working ina satin black bunny corsetlace-up pumps hugging her calves,and she sways with her mascara streams,pushes forward, crushing embers of her cigarette butt.New Year’s Eve should’ve been a good night,But her employers took another cut from her body.I drive her home to Miramar.She’s asleep next to me in the passenger seat.Her Baby.There is a picture of a baby on her phone screen.On the turnpike over marsh, sawgrass, newdevelopments for empty space.No one buzzes her in.No one answers her phone call.She climbs a fenceand smashes her body home.
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