Yes, Doug, yes.
Crumped metal squeezebox indeed.
(I have heard back from my friend whose crash I mentioned, and he reproves
my writing for falling into something like unfeeling flippancy, so much more
work is needed to make my sprawl a poem.)
Max
On 13/9/07 2:44 AM, "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
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