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balmofgilead) wrote2005-11-09 11:19 pm
balmofgilead) wrote2005-11-09 11:19 pm
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The area surrounding Hopkins Hospital is pretty run-down and distressed; it's basically made up of boarded-up rowhouses and housing projects. It's the kind of area where it's not a stretch to think that many of the residents know people who've been shot or died of AIDS or drug overdoses. There's this dumpster behind one of the housing projects with stuff spray-painted onto it: RIP Tommy, RIP some-other-name-that-didn't-sound-like-what-you'd-name-a-pet.
Having your name spray-painted onto the side of a rusty corrugated metal dumpster--what a memorial.
There's this joke I heard ages ago about a woman who asks to be cremated and have her ashes placed in a box in the shoe department at Saks Fifth Avenue--that way, she says, her daughter might come visit her sometimes. This is like...the totally opposite end of the spectrum.
Having your name spray-painted onto the side of a rusty corrugated metal dumpster--what a memorial.
There's this joke I heard ages ago about a woman who asks to be cremated and have her ashes placed in a box in the shoe department at Saks Fifth Avenue--that way, she says, her daughter might come visit her sometimes. This is like...the totally opposite end of the spectrum.