"Today is a BIG Day!"
HOVERCRAFT seems like
ages* ago.
The war that hadn't started
yet has raged for two years and we have been told it could be in it's
last throes for twelve more.
Prior to being asked
if I "wanted a wall", I had saved a picture of a homeless woman for
possible use in VSNRY: PANIC ATTACK 3. I found the "Last Iraqi" after
the doors were locked for the last time. I was with Laynee when she got
the call that the house was coming down and drove her there just in
time to see the start of the destruction.
As room after room was
turned to debris, the underlying "Stars and Stripes" slatted lath walls
were exposed. During a break, the gathered Artists were allowed to go
upstairs one last time and I knew then what the last addition to the
World Wide Wall would be.
*TEN YEARS AFTER
September 2013, the lot
where the HOVERCRAFT house once stood is still empty as the words proclaiming
the 12th anniversary of 9-11. I have kept one more picture** all this
time, the logo of the dump truck that hauled away the remnants of a
dream realized, a dream shared, a dream not forgotten.
Roll
Over Beethoven...
WELL DONE EVERYONE.
** "He held the bones
of his daughter. He had wrapped them in an excellent sealskin that he
himself had tanned many years ago and that he considered one of the
most beautiful he had ever made. No one appreciated such things any
longer and he had never let it out of his hands. but had saved it for
a better time. Now that time had come. The skin would protect the bones
from unnecessarily harsh conditions inside the cave - until the end, when
the land would melt and sink into the sea - and the animals who would
then have complete control."
The Day
Is Dark***
/ Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
*** For the
Craftie who thinks I only read Science-Fiction.
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