A City ordinance here
provides dull grey signs
for every 'accidental death'
along our streets
as if official
recognition / dire
warning / thoughtful
insistence that just here
s a dangerous site
line burned into pavement
for all to watch & learn
while on tonight s news
at least two new videos
of crumpled metal squeezebox
cars will tell the impact of such signs
Wednesday 12 IX 07
In some places the kind of personal memorial you speak of also appear,
Max. And we thought the Egyptians were the ones to go so far in
planning the afterlife of those they honored; not if these you rendered
appear that often:
One such shrine sported a range
of food and drink containers,
as if to sustain the lost one
in his former nosh and tipple.
Doug
On 11-Sep-07, at 6:54 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> Roadside Memorials
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
People say they have to express their emotions.
I'm sick of that. Photography doesn't teach
you to express your emotions;
it teaches you how to see.
Berenice Abbott
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