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* [Sydney]: photo by Sam Ferris, 29 July 2017
Bicycles of various bike-sharing services are seen in the rubble of houses partially demolished in Shanghai, China Photo Aly Song: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 July 2018
#France An aerial view of a flax field in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle. Photo @JoelSaget #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 July 2018
A woman walks a bicycle down a dirt path as seen from a window of the motorcade carrying Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, July 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik): image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 6 July 2018
A boy carrying his bicycle passes through a barricade on the outskirts of Croix-des-Bouquets, during unrest over steep fuel price increases in Haiti Photo Aly Song: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 July 2018
Looting follows violent fuel protests in Haitian capital: Photo @CheryHaiti: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 9 July 2018
#Haiti Haiti between anarchy, normalcy after deadly fuel-price violence Photo @hectorretamal #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2018
Throughout the summer, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in Spain's northwestern region of Galicia as part of the "Rapa Das Bestas": Photo Miguel Vidal: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 July 2018
#Myanmar Myanmar (Burma) Reuters reporters to face Myanmar trial for 'breaking' secrecy law #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 8 July 2018
Detained Myanmar journalists Kyaw Soe Oo (C) and Wa Lone (R) have been charged under the country’s official secrets act.: photo by Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images, 8 July 2018
#Indonesia Worker effort and firefighters try to extinguish a fire on fishing boats at Benoa harbour in Denpasar, on Indonesia's resort island of Bali Photo @sonny_bali#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2018
#India A commuter stands on a road divider along a waterlogged road after heavy rain in Mumbai Photo @thisisindra #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2018
Unconfirmed reports that person taken ill at a bus stop on Fisherton street, just off St Paul’s roundabout in Salisbury. Roads have been cordoned off to public. Ambulance crew in attendance.: image via Caroline Bannock @carlanine, 6:53 AM 9 July 2018
Untitled: photo by Gareth Bragdon, 2 July 2017
Untitled: photo by Gareth Bragdon, 2 July 2017
Untitled: photo by Gareth Bragdon, 2 July 2017
Untitled: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 9 July 2018
Untitled: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 9 July 2018
* [Sydney]: photo by Sam Ferris, 29 July 2017
Bicycles of various bike-sharing services are seen in the rubble of houses partially demolished in Shanghai, China Photo Aly Song: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 July 2018
#France An aerial view of a flax field in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle. Photo @JoelSaget #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 July 2018
A woman walks a bicycle down a dirt path as seen from a window of the motorcade carrying Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Pyongyang, North Korea, Saturday, July 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik): image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 6 July 2018
A boy carrying his bicycle passes through a barricade on the outskirts of Croix-des-Bouquets, during unrest over steep fuel price increases in Haiti Photo Aly Song: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 July 2018
Looting follows violent fuel protests in Haitian capital: Photo @CheryHaiti: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 9 July 2018
#Haiti Haiti between anarchy, normalcy after deadly fuel-price violence Photo @hectorretamal #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2018
Throughout the summer, hundreds of wild horses are rounded up, trimmed and groomed in different villages in Spain's northwestern region of Galicia as part of the "Rapa Das Bestas": Photo Miguel Vidal: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 9 July 2018
#Myanmar Myanmar (Burma) Reuters reporters to face Myanmar trial for 'breaking' secrecy law #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 8 July 2018
Detained Myanmar journalists Kyaw Soe Oo (C) and Wa Lone (R) have been charged under the country’s official secrets act.: photo by Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images, 8 July 2018
#Indonesia Worker effort and firefighters try to extinguish a fire on fishing boats at Benoa harbour in Denpasar, on Indonesia's resort island of Bali Photo @sonny_bali#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2018
#India A commuter stands on a road divider along a waterlogged road after heavy rain in Mumbai Photo @thisisindra #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 9 July 2018
BREAKING: police and paramedics have isolated a bus and an individual near the Railway in #Salisbury @itvnews: image via Rupert Evelyn @rupertevelyn, 6:19 AM 9 July 2018
Unconfirmed reports that person taken ill at a bus stop on Fisherton street, just off St Paul’s roundabout in Salisbury. Roads have been cordoned off to public. Ambulance crew in attendance.: image via Caroline Bannock @carlanine, 6:53 AM 9 July 2018
DumpTrump | Eastern Shore, Maryland: photo by theresakeil, 24 March 2018
Furniture [Twentynine Palms, CA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 8 July 2018
Modern era graveyard: photo by Patricia Jeremiah, 25 February 2018
Modern era graveyard: photo by Patricia Jeremiah, 25 February 2018
Modern era graveyard: photo by Patricia Jeremiah, 25 February 2018
Modern era graveyard: photo by Patricia Jeremiah, 25 February 2018
Modern era graveyard: photo by Patricia Jeremiah, 25 February 2018
Modern era graveyard: photo by Patricia Jeremiah, 25 February 2018
2018-112 | Berkeley, Ca.: photo by biosfear, July 2018
NYC, 2014 / 1245 | Midtown Manhattan: photo by dirtyharrry, 25 October 2014
Diversion (Fireboats working in the inner harbour, middle of the night)
The bumping of the boats' wooden hulls against the dock
made me think of eyeballs bobbing up on the other side
of the paywall, popped open by pins to expose the little
wiggly bits of eggwhite eyeball gunk that swim about in there
beneath the pier, agglomerating into clots that pick up tangled strands
of plastic junk and seaweed to become semi-solid
floating blobs banging against the pylons when the tide turns.
Is it the contrite looking girl she's angry with, or is it us?
And are we suffering from global amnesia, or is it merely wilfully local
and related to all this smoke and inability to confront reality
and bound to clear up within a few days, maybe weeks
and is there anything that's really important to remember anyway
or is it not like what happened when Jane's husband wandered off, if that's what he did,
is it possible our best hours now are those in which we are allowed
to wander off, and when we return will we know
who the girl is angry with, or why, or whether it still matters
or ever did, or ever did?
And are we suffering from global amnesia, or is it merely wilfully local
and related to all this smoke and inability to confront reality
and bound to clear up within a few days, maybe weeks
and is there anything that's really important to remember anyway
or is it not like what happened when Jane's husband wandered off, if that's what he did,
is it possible our best hours now are those in which we are allowed
to wander off, and when we return will we know
who the girl is angry with, or why, or whether it still matters
or ever did, or ever did?
is it possible our best hours now are those in which we are allowed
ReplyDeleteto wander off
Yes.
Nothing but diversions these days. Reality is hunkered down in some murky complex and looking more gaunt by the day.
Our wandering off from it, as though it were a loyal dog of which we have grown tired, might well make it wonder about all those years it's put into tirelessly obeying our every command, and fulfilling if not our every wish at least a reasonable percentage of same, in as cinematic a fashion as possible, while always including a pay packet, as it's said to have done, though.
ReplyDeletePerhaps a bit of counselling and some restorative activities might help, we could simply direct it to the appropriate agencies, I believe they are to be found under that tent right over there, unless the emergency response personnel happens to be busy at the moment, what with the protests and demonstrations scheduled all across the wandering zone.