< the dead on my block >

                                the dead
                                on my block
                                have borrowed
                                wheelbarrows
                                to haul the spirits
                                of their last possessions
                               
                                if i could see them
                                there would be many
                                golf clubs
                                and an occasional
                                toaster
                               
                                        - -

...now I'm sad. That picture and those well-written words and now I'm all weepy. T_T

Seriously. They borrowed the wheelbarrows. That's about as weepy as it gets.

Well done!

(10-14-2013, 03:05 PM)FractalPacifist Wrote:  ...now I'm sad. That picture and those well-written words and now I'm all weepy. T_T

Seriously. They borrowed the wheelbarrows. That's about as weepy as it gets.

Well done!

The remaining question (and yes, it must be asked)
is: "Who did they borrow them from?".

"Who did they borrow them from?"

The man borrowed the clothes from my step-grandfather Howard. In fact that could be him. circa 1940's, but why does the woman have someone's face up her left sleeve?

That's the problem with the dead, they are always wheel-borrowing things and not returning them. I used to have a wheelbarrow just like that one and it disappeared, now I know who took it.

Dead on Ray,


Dale

They look like ghosts, especially in that poor resolution photo Ray. Love the poem and I can relate, as I am waiting to take up golf after I am dead. Nice!/Chris

(10-14-2013, 05:15 PM)Erthona Wrote:  " ...but why does the woman have someone's face up her left sleeve?"

It's a small copy of a Neolithic stone mask (7000 BCE) that
her spot-nosed monkey uses to celebrate Día de Los Muertos.

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(10-14-2013, 06:50 PM)ChristopherSea Wrote:  They look like ghosts, especially in that poor resolution photo Ray. Love the poem and I can relate, as I am waiting to take up golf after I am dead. Nice!/Chris

That's the clearest these images ever get. They're made using
electrically charged selenium film. The spectral radiation of a
ghost's aura selectively discharges it forming an image. This is
much the same process as is used to form images in Xerox
copiers and explains why, from time to time, that Xerox copies
are subject to 'ghosting'.