Things You Might See on Your Way to Puerto Madero

• Two cartoneros on a shady terrace in Parque Lezama comparing the night's scavenging finds, the man with the mustache holding up a pale lace wedding dress, seemingly undamaged, to the older man.  
• A mass of unleashed dogs of varying sizes resting under a jacaranda tree
• Half the carcass of a pigeon.
• The white painting of Antarctica on the gates of the Instituto Antártico Argentino, showing the triangle of south pole Argentina claims as its own.
• Scrolling silver graffiti on a wall beside a card table where two women are selling snacks and candies, one of the women cutting the labels off bottles of water with a pocket knife.
• A brindled pit bull puppy with white paws chasing the heels of a leashed black lab.
• The bright yellow bicycles of the city's new BicingBA program.
• Porn magazines hanging on the outside walls of newspaper kiosks, nipples fuzzed out with red permanent marker.
• A pair of old men tanning their ponderous bellies on benches along the canal.
• Burger King.
• The spaced-out, modern skyline of Puerto Madero's new skyscrapers, on their sliver of downtown across the canal.  
• This dog on a long, hot walk: