Saturday 15 June 2013

Point Blank


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Rain (Albany, California): photo by efo, 8 June 2013


Outside the tall building, two hoopers
carrying their court
shoes by knotted strings

pause before an impromptu
monument  
propped against institutional

concrete -- flowers, messages
penned neatly on large
poster bearing fine graphite

drawing of a basketball.
Shaking heads.
Good kid. Got rearended.

Made one very bad mistake. 
Got out of his car.




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Dog in yard (Westbrae, Berkeley): photo by efo, 3 May 2013

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Balls: polyptych photo by efo, 26 May 2013
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8 comments:

  1. TC15 June 2013 at 07:27

    Emeryville 22-year-old shot and killed in North Oakland after car collision

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  2. Unknown15 June 2013 at 10:34

    tom- these last three are on fire!!! especially moving.

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  3. vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)15 June 2013 at 10:46

    Stupefyingly tragic.

    The title says it all, and I find myself unwittingly remembering that Reader's Digest column, "Life in These United States" and can't help but think--what's the point?

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  4. Hazen15 June 2013 at 17:25

    How is this any different from chaos, he wondered?,
    over the distant wait of sirens.

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  5. Marie W15 June 2013 at 17:30

    And now pause after an impromptu moment. A very, very long one...

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  6. Hazen15 June 2013 at 17:45

    Those sirens should be wailing, not waiting. Chaos on the keyboard . . .

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  7. Mose2316 June 2013 at 04:49

    carrying their court
    shoes by knotted strings

    Something in this image: a vulnerability; waiting for the drop.

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  8. TC16 June 2013 at 06:36

    Safe -- For Now (Temporary Respite)

    Hazen's "slip" names the abyss that waits and wails.

    It's so easy to slip.

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