Will you tell us stories that make
us uncomfortable, but not complicit?
— Ada Limón
ONLY ONLY (Stop when red sky flashes)
NO CAMP
Insurance to protect what ...
THIS Is Kalapuya Land (Eugene Skinner “founder” of Eugene)
leave.
We can all ...
(Rosa at LTD bus station)
Security by SONITROL (Flaming Ukraine)
(Signaling Box: Territorial Imperative)
(Lightning and Detritus: Things Go Better With Coke)
(Grounding the Ghost)
PERSERVANCE (Japanese-American art memorial detail)
GOD BLESS *USA* (Territorial Imperative II)
I’ve Offered Everything … Still ...
I (Heart) MY GF
NOTES
— Ada Limón from the poem The contract says: we'd like the conversation to be bilingual. In her collection The Carrying (2018)
— William T. Vollmann, from Four Men: Keeping company with outdoor people. Harper’s Magazine, November 2023.
I would rather not be sorry about something when I am not going to do anything about it.
We do not speak of this among ourselves, but I believe that most inside people aspire to the same righteous peace for which I reached in the previous sentence. — William T. Vollmann
Signs! Words! (Command.Ask.Plea.) Shaping way-finding in public places. Does anyone look. Yes, this maker of sign, that writer of words, briefly. How can these signalings matter as we move along the street, saunter sidewalk, slide in underpass, or over. View the news. New as old. The comfort, the complicit. Walls. Porous borders... How?
(ONLY ONLY to begin again)
