From Vegas to vegan, Tyson’s life comes full circle

THERE’S this fat ten year old boy whose mother is forced to come to live in the tough black ghetto of Brownsville in Brooklyn in the Seventies.

The boy is also near-sighted and suffers from asthma. He is terrified by the aimless violence at street level and retreats to the top floors of abandoned buildings where old men are breeding and flying pigeons. He joins them daily and soon is a pigeon breeder and fancier himself. He breeds and flies tippers and rollers.

Mostly he loves the deep roller pigeons. They fly straight up towards Paradise and then roll over on their backs and drop like stones towards earth again, pulling up (generally) just in time.