The Aesthetic of Destruction

Jan 15, 2023

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An Old Man and Little Boy Sit and Compare Their Lives: ‘I’m Gonna Cry’ – Inner Strength Zone — Courtesy of innerstrength.com

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Let me finish your sentence for you,
The little boy said.  
And pulled out a paper, and read:

“I bear you no resentment,
For doing what you did to the world”
And here he unfurled
A picture of a city in ruins that had been

Made into a museum.  
"Not even a memorial old man?"
We do what we can--

But here the little boy fi…

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