Posts Tagged Photography
I try to Be Good, but Look at My Ugliness, but See My Insides (a photo essay from Fort Smith, Arkansas)
Posted by Carl in Photography on March 26, 2017
I Struggle Early (and Often)
There are morn-
ings when I can’t get
out of jail,
details pop,
humans strangle, cutting, leav-
ing insane self down.
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One day, the sun, the trees, and the light post marked my mood.
America 2017, #11
Floating dead,
bending bridges and
organs, sing,
my friend of
your loss of all that was good,
and come back full brown.
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Carl’s amateur dystopian photography – Fort Smith, Arkansas
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America 2017, #5, “My Dedication to the Good Failed Too Many times”
Posted by Carl in Photography, Poems on February 28, 2017
They warned me —
Behave, man, do not
scream at the
drunks when you’re
drunk, maintain your head, or we’ll
paint and board you up.
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America 2017, #4 – Cackling Steeples
Crown darkens
forges impressions,
towering,
glaringly
laughing at insanity,
squashing my tiny mind.
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More Dystopia Today from Carl the Amateur.
Another Day, When After the Fireworks, I Knew I Was Worthless
Posted by Carl in Photography, Poems on February 25, 2017
You looked through
the windows blocking
my soul, tres-
passing, vi-
olating love, wiping the
thought, trashing heaven.
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Not-so-dystopian today, amateur Carl’s repossessed America. America 2017 #3.
America, 2016, #2 – On Gravel to Avoid the Hit
One in front
of the other they
said and no
one would love
me again, tossed I am on
rusty grills.
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Carl’s dystopia today shot near Gibbon, Nebraska, September 2016
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It’s Been Almost a Year
Untitled - Vivian Maier
IT’S BEEN ALMOST A YEAR
It’s been almost a year, and at ten years old, Charlene has stepped in as the caretaker. She bursts with survival instincts, but underneath, I know she aches, perhaps more than I. How many years will the grief eat at our weak souls? Will we have relief by the time Charlene is thirty? Will we survive long enough?
Eric worries me. He’s only eight and he walks around dumbstruck. He’s helpful, and he carries my things, but he acts as if he just returned from the war zone in Afghanistan. I want to believe he is moving toward being able to live as a human. After all, he is not the most devastated casualty.
Timmy is only four. His disposition makes my anger rage at the dead woman and creates startling fears of the future, of his future. He constantly looks up, thinking that he might be able to see the moment when his mother incarnated wickedly as a psychotic ape and smashed the glass, jumping out of the ninth story window. I wonder if he thinks he might go back, 11 months in time, and he might save her by catching her with his tiny hands. I know he cannot process the permanent structures of a suicide. I can’t process those things either, but I know not to look up for her.
It’s been almost a year. It seems we won’t ever recover because time takes far too much time.
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Indigo Spider has a picture prompt challenge called “Sunday Picture Press.” I’m not good at these, but the above picture haunted me, so I wrote a VERY SHORT story. Enjoy others at the prompt post. I am sure they saw the photo far differently!
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