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Ruins
Recently returned from a long trip to Italy. Seems strange to grow up in a country with ancient ruins everywhere.
Bits of ruins jutting out of a hotel or a convenient store. Restaurants built inside ancient garbage dumps. Thousand year old staircase littered with cigarette butts. Washing yr hands in an 800 year old water fountain. Walking down some 2000 year old alleyway now full of surveillance cameras. 4000 year old olive tree on the side of the road next to the bus stop.
In the southern countryside, lousy with abandoned buildings, a perverse attempt by more recent generations to hurry along their own ruinous expressions.
1:02 p.m. - 2018-04-10
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