2005/01/24

essay #04 OPIUM FOR THE MAGNATES


It'S SO BARMY...

45-degrees-in-the-goddamn-shade...



Crazy city, this...
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE OUTPOST...
Latcho drom...
Melting-pot-Metropolis...
Western-cog-in-capitalistic-wheel...

Hi-Jacked taxis...
Clog-city-arteries...
Morning-fare-down-the-barrel-of-a-gun...
SIX BLOCKS LATER..
Car rolls...
Gunman-disarmed...
"Nothing to see here, folks...
Move it along..."

I'm thinking...
Stepford Housewives...
Porning-their-husbands-wealth-through Hyper-Mall-Botox-clinics...

I'm thinking...
Neruda right now...
DAMN HIM...

>> OPIUM FOR THE MAGNATES >>

Of the photojournalist...
Trapped in the 'Lipstik-Lifestyle' Fastlane...
Repulsed by the Manicured Decadence...
Of a liposuctioned-Middle-East...
Don Quixote-with-a-Nikon...
FOR THE REVOLUTION...

AND...
FOR...
THE...
ONE...
WITHIN...
US...
ALL...






2005/01/01

essay #03 TSUNAMI HELL


DIGITAL GLOBE/AAP

BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS...
This Tsunami Hell...
Seas of fury...
Rips children from their parents safe embrace...

Indiscriminate...
Savage...
Cruel...

TOO DEVASTATING TO CONTEMPLATE...

Sweet Jesus...

Tropical morgue...
Watery grave...
Mass burials...
Boardshort-bodies...
Dragged from the malarial depths...
Children...
Orphans...
Now pale imitations...
Of the living...

THERE ARE NO WORDS...
ONLY...
DEEP...
BOTTOMLESS...
SORROW...

2004...
EPITAPH TO DEVASTATION...
In Memorial...