(this picture & those following are by Melanie Pruit)

"At the Liberty Memorial"

1.
shambles
baseball cap wyvern
skulking
wheelbarrows of cash
prices changing hourly
a Lego Yoda

2.
As i was climbing up the solemn hill,
memorial to the war to end all wars,
its burning emptiness threw me a chill

and i imagined how, if they'd been right,
and people many generations later,
hundreds of years of peace and friendship later,

would gaze upon the monument and say,
"It was those soldiers' sacrifice that won
the world we know today," and they would sigh;

and maybe it was not so foolish then
as it seems now, to fangle such a thing:

and maybe there is something fucked in us,
to make us think dread war will always be.

3.
phantom rental car syndrome
something
shimmering and
white


"I'm aspiring to a storm worth surviving." --Reginald Shepherd


My favorite part of Shock Treatment.