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Born like this
Into this
As the chalk faces smile
As Mrs. Death laughs
As the elevators break
As political landscapes dissolve
As the sun is masked
We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Walking and living through this
Dying because of this
Muted because of this
Castrated
Debauched
Disinherited
Because of this
Fooled by this
Used by this
Pissed on by this
Made crazy and sick by this
Made violent
Made inhuman
By this
The heart is blackened
The fingers reach for the throat
The gun
The knife
The bomb
The fingers reach toward an unresponsive god
The fingers reach for the bottle
The pill
The powder
We are born into this sorrowful deadliness
We are born into a government 60 years in debt
That soon will be unable to even pay the interest on that debt
And the banks will burn
Money will be useless
The sun will not be seen and it will always be night
Trees will die
All vegetation will die
Radiated men will eat the flesh of radiated men
The sea will be poisoned
The lakes and rivers will vanish
Rain will be the new gold
The rotting bodies of men and animals will stink in the dark wind
The last few survivors will be overtaken by new and hideous diseases
And there will be the most beautiful silence never heard
Born out of that.
The sun still hidden there
Awaiting the next chapter.
Covent Garden 7th Sept 2015. A lot of mumbo jumbo was written about the symbolic meanings of the ballons but it was rather startling to see the display as you turned the corner and I did get the cloud bit. However the text could be saying "I've ordered the ballons for the party!"
The Black Swan is a large member of the swan family, native to Australia. It was hunted to extinction in New Zealand, where it was later reintroduced. Captive populations have been established in places like Florida and England. Their plumage is almost exclusively black with white flight feathers. The majority form long term monogamous relationships. The term "Black Swan" became a metaphor that could be used to symbolize any event of great magnitude that was thereafter rationalized extensively with the benefit of hindsight. There are many events, even over the last decade or so, that could be referred to as black swan events. The reference to this bird, metaphorically, was probably initially made by some who were not even really aware that the bird existed. That is, in and of itself, a bit of a dark metaphor. #BlackSwan
Xihuacan is a Nahuatl word that means “Place of the Owners of Turquoise” and makes reference to the metaphor of “The Owners of the Time” or “The Calendar Masters”. A day tour from Ixtapa
imagine-mexico.com/indigenous-cultures-of-mexico/
A mishap at the lab rendered my entire APS roll into a light magenta colour. Only way to make something of them was to convert to black/white. All images from the camera are full frame "H" setting.
expired film, Polaroid 200
Dijon Covered Market Detail - Abstract
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I DONT THINK THAT THE PROTEST IS OVER
To Quote Sir Winston Churchill:
"Now this is not the End - This is not even the Beginning of the End - But it is, perhaps, the End of The Beginning"
This was just the first step along what is a road the length of which we can only guess at.
I feel that this is just a respite before something else occurs that is serious enough to galvanise us again - do not become too complacent, she has not reacted yet nor has she been fired - this is merely the calm before the next storm.
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A visual metaphor of David Gilmour's guitar playing
In fact a pixel dedication to David Guilmour's ethereal sounding guitar work
David is not the fastest guitarist around
He just has an incredible sense of timing and space between the notes
An ethereal sound
Abstract notes begets ,,,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLOth-BuCNY&feature=related
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (David Gilmour on guitar )
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Montreal
The town of Petworth was virtually deserted when visiting recently - this beautiful courtyard captured my imagination. It resonated for me as my metaphor for 2020.
Enticing beautiful plants and the glimpse of an open door to pass through - neither attainable because of the locked grilled gate.
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There is a metaphor in here, somewhere. :-)
Chiavenna (Lombard: Ciavèna, Latin: Clavenna, Italian: Chiavenna, German: Cläven or Kleven, Romansh: Clavenna) is a city (municipality) in the Province of Sondrio in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Milan and about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Sondrio. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 7,263 and an area of 11.1 kilometres (6.9 mi).[1]
The municipality of Chiavenna contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Campedello, Loreto, Pianazzola, and San Carlo.
Chiavenna borders the following municipalities: Mese, Piuro, Prata Camportaccio, San Giacomo Filippo.
Chiavenna, the Roman Clavenna, was a town of Rhaetia, on the Italian side of the Alps, about 16 kilometres (10 mi) from the head of the Lacus Larius (modern Lake Como), at the foot of the Valle Spluga which leads up to the Splügen Pass. The Itineraries demonstrate that the pass was frequented in ancient times; as well as another, which separated from it at Clavenna, and led by a more circuitous route over to Curia (modern Chur), where it rejoined the preceding road. (Itin. Ant. pp. 277, 278; Tab. Peut.; P. Diac. vi. 29.) It was by one or other of these passes that Stilicho crossed the Alps in midwinter, a feat celebrated by Claudian (de B. Get. 320-358). After the collapse of the Western Roman Empire the city marked the northern limit of the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy. Clavenna was retaken by the Romans in the mid-6th century during the reign of Justinian and avoided capture by the Lombards until the 7th century. Clavenna probably derived some importance from its position at the junction of these two passes, as does the modern town of Chiavenna, which is the chief town of the surrounding district.
Source: Wikipedia