ripped like shredded
satin dresses of inner cheeks,
it never bled …
Tag: consumerism
Plastic Doesn’t Die
The era is in motion /
Children who have seen too much /
who don’t want to play /
with plastic bags /
upon their eyes…
Notes on Tourism, the Museum, IKEA, and Capitalism
Reproducibility of experience // Outside the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Basilica, approximately 300 people are lined up in 24 degrees of spring heat. This is the line to enter the Renaissance-era Basilica, apparently also the biggest church in the world. The heat is excruciating. Having completed a tiring night of travel and changing-clothes-on-the-road, I am carrying a huge backpack. A train ticket in my pocket has become soggy from my sweat. After almost 2 hours of waiting under the sun, my friends and I are allowed into the Basilica. On our way in, a security guard scans us and our bags.
