A Girl's life lost
on the battlefield of wanting to be loved
outward bastard images of perfection
. . . perfection
so slim, so damn thin
that her face gets lost
in the margins of advertisements
Magazine, white, pulped, paper lies
hide behind ink that does not bleed
for the lives of trees
are not the only ones
lost tonight
-Jayson Tx
Thursday, May 8, 2008
City of the Walking Dead
May 8, 2008
Cairo, is Egypt's ancient city for the dead. It is now occupied by tens of thousands of squatters. Stones previously used as tombs, now makes desks, beds, chairs, and TV stands. Becoming poorer and poorer, these squatters have been forced to settle in this graveyard like sanctuary. It at first seems amazing that the same place where once the richest and proudest of a past civilization would go to set their travels, into many other worlds beyond our own, is now being used as housing by this civilization's poor and alienated. But then it dawns on me, these squatters were previously living in the mass urban slum villages that are currently being torn down and replaced with corporate western shopping malls. This is not amazing, it is just another gross attempt at gentrification. Soon, Cairo will be known as the city of the walking dead, as thousands of squatters began fighting for what little resources are left for them.
-Jayson Tx
Cairo, is Egypt's ancient city for the dead. It is now occupied by tens of thousands of squatters. Stones previously used as tombs, now makes desks, beds, chairs, and TV stands. Becoming poorer and poorer, these squatters have been forced to settle in this graveyard like sanctuary. It at first seems amazing that the same place where once the richest and proudest of a past civilization would go to set their travels, into many other worlds beyond our own, is now being used as housing by this civilization's poor and alienated. But then it dawns on me, these squatters were previously living in the mass urban slum villages that are currently being torn down and replaced with corporate western shopping malls. This is not amazing, it is just another gross attempt at gentrification. Soon, Cairo will be known as the city of the walking dead, as thousands of squatters began fighting for what little resources are left for them.
-Jayson Tx
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