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Mandeville St, New Orleans, Louisiana.

E Washington Ave, North Little Rock, Arkansas.

Hotel Lokve, Montenegro, Radosav Zeković, 1980s

99 W Hwy, Corning, California.

Shell Oil Company’s Deer Park refinery and petrochemical facility, Texas

National Geographic, April 1983

Co Rd 99W, Orland, California.

rope-bound and sacking cloth-draped.

downhill, downhill, into the pictures of hell made real by twisted hands that tremble washing cracked saucers encrusted with burnt grease, nerves pinched, then wince as fingertips split by time and temperature bump into bottoms and sides of pots large enough to boil baby angels, fumbling in the sink and screaming into the drain where coiled serpents wait for blood to trickle down corroded throats, damned to damage body/mind escaping the upper room world of the glassy-eyed nothing heads, tripping down the staircase in pursuit of peace and instead assigned to nights of endless scrubbing at bloodstains

I'm a mimic I'm a clown The things that I have seen They just come out

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia | 1990

Sosta nel deserto. 1980