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dilettante, buffoon, taking pics on the east coast

i am once again full of hate
app-rot
if my vacant expression // meant anything at all would be unintention // the unrelenting gall
yelp review says this church has "gone woke", fwiw
profligate corpses // paying back the living
wildfire smoke over the capitol
do not smoke at or by my daughters window, thank you
atrophying // full of hate
crevices open up // unattended children needlepoint canvas says “don’t bless this mess // make a killing” the natural verboten, messy // ersatz living toyota supra drifted through my torso at a hundred fifty miles per hour didnt even blink
"...silence of a rat come out to see..."
new york county supreme court
looking east from the lower east side
big blocky metal tower popping out behind the park
its coming down on you
the longer im gone the more i miss it
helicopter overhead
security cameras on a nondescript brick building
completed april 1960
an EPA superfund site, caused in part by oil refinery chemicals leeching into the groundwater
"How the discourse represented became more important than What the discourse represented."
"Yet people were ready to fancy it moldering and abandoned, a relic of an optimistic moment of history when men had essayed an experiment called democracy. Dissolution was heavy in the air; and even the rising monuments of the republic wore the image of ruin and decay."
"It's easy to say to yourself that you should have no remorse for being momentarily spared;"
lining up for a shot
ache
"Do you not remember how often I said to you, 'Though it looks like fair weather now, soon it will be cloudy,' and that I used to say, 'Qui habet aures audiendi audiat'"
if thomas cole were alive now he'd start the voyage of life with an angel guiding you out of the a-frame whataburger
the old world is hanging itself and the new world is stillborn
a now torn down church
low sky
wind passes across my back and the imperium yawns — half-asleep as it desiccates. teeth plucked out, calcium maggots, carrion for the greedy above
the thing you have to remember about these people is that they're all confederates.
distribution of material reality modulated by a vast psychosexual war
going about their business
exurban development, half-finished
"They were the victims of the passivity and tacit complicity of Christian friends and acquaintances. There were few, if any, intercessions by the non-Nazi elite of bureaucrats, professionals, industrialists, agrarians, intellectuals, and artists. [...]they withdrew, more and more, into their own personal and corporate concerns." — Arno Mayer
a birds eye view of a city
rotting remnants of rural america
storm coming
slowly, then all at once
a view of all the people at the park
taking pictures of a constructed landscape
towers over the meer
smoke
"Without the spiraling and unsuccessful absolute war, which was in essence a crusade, the inconceivable could not have become conceivable, let alone possible and practicable." — Arno Mayer
"...fear is now an environment, a surrounding, a world. It occupies and preoccupies us. Fear was once a phenomenon related to localized, identifiable events that were limited to a certain timeframe: wars, famines, epidemics. Today, the world itself is limited, saturated, reduced, restricting us to stressful claustrophobia: contagious stock prices, faceless terrorism, lightning pandemics, professional suicides."
storm rolling into dc
sunlit alleyway // "Images were first made to conjure up the appearance of something absent."
lift your eyes to heaven // "we are always looking at a thing in relation to ourselves"
billboard on canal
Gegründet // Erbaut
bad things happen when you leave the city
bridge over a canal
skyscrapers peaking through trees // people walking on a curving path