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Subject: Wedding and pictures Author: Paul! [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 21:00:26 04/20/04 Tue Okay, about the wedding: I don't care if I get an official invite, necessarily, although I wouldn't mind getting one either. I will, however, definitely be there, though I don't have any of the details (hotel, dates, etc) worked out as of yet. I shall keep you all posted. About the pictures: They no longer exist, for the most part. The best ones got rained on and subsequently stuck together and when I tried to peel them apart they ripped and I got rid of most of them. The few I have left are pretty uninteresting, but I'll see what I can do about scanning them or whatnot. Actually, just thinking about those pictures makes me sad, because they're some of the best pictures I've ever taken and the ones most charged with emotional resonance, and they're gone forever. There was one picture I wrote a poem about, it was the picture I took of Michael and Ashley and Kelley and Chris in front of a speeding subway car, and the subway looks strange and intangible blurring by in the background and everybody looks beautiful and young and... Well, it had always been my favorite photograph and now the only place it exists is in my mind. Here's that poem, if anybody cares (and even if you don't): PHOTOGRAPH apoembypaulcarson years ago i took a photograph freezeframe black-and-white the subway blurring byh in the background taking the years away. it's longlost gone the way of all things and only my memory of it remains like the faded afterimage burned into my retinas dancing in my glances. when the nuclear bomb was tested a little girl blind all her life saw a brief light then nothing again forever. can i be the same as the one who danced along rainy streets in love with the girl from the photograph? did i sleep in a room with four friends did i live for months on coffee and swiped cigarettes did i fuck and drink and scream? seven years later i can bring up the image the girl's tilted head and quizzical expression the best friend's hair tousled by rushing air the grain of the picture all crystalclear and i can't remember yesterday. longlost a boy, blind all his life saw a brief light then nothing again forever. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]