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The crows are there when you leave the house. They need to get fed. You feed them, they feed you. You need to get fed.
It's Saturday today, that's the crow day.
That's also the long shift.
You don't make enough money to have anything but a modest
life. You fill it with art you destroy and hide and throw away.
The goddess gave you gifts and you immediately took them out of your inventory and put them in the trash and asked for more and she gave you more and repeat ad infinitum until there isn't room left for more.
You are a god damn stupid fucking selfish asshole, of course.
Good Morning,
Good Morning,
Production Manager.
Production Manager.
Those structures were here before you got here, don't worry about what they mean, they're everywhere now. Concrete and metal and plastic and electricity and signals mostly. Different people have different opinions on what those things are and what they represent, but you could say that
Concrete is Earth
Metal is Wood
Plastic is Water
Electricity is Fire
and Signals is Air
It's time to feed the crows on the walk in to bus in to walk to work.
It's a Modest House, you see it on the way to Work
It's a Modest House, you see it on the way to Work
This one was designed by a relatively famous architect. On the backside is a metal addition that looks like a watchtower or a water tank embedded in the house.
They've been working on this one for a while.
Gonna fix it up and sell it for a modest amount.
Not enough, naturally, but enough to make it seem worthwhile.
Ah, the troubles of the professional
managerial class
Guillotine scaffolding.
It's a Modest House, you see it on the way to Work
It's a Modest House, you see it on the way to Work
When you are closing up at work
you thinking about living there?
wondering about what life in that
.............
is like?
must be nice.
Wait so you need to be making 120k+ a year just to make the mortgage?
Mushrooms Break Down Dead Plant Matter Into Soil
Mushrooms Break Down Dead Plant Matter Into Soil
When you find a golden truffle there will be a crown put on your head right before the apple goes in your mouth and you are et.
Being eaten is just being broken down into soil.
The Invisible Frequencies Surrounding You Are Full Of People Getting Paid
The Invisible Frequencies Surrounding You Are Full Of People Getting Paid
Getting paid by check for minimum wage marks you as someone who thinks currency is still backed up by something.
That Pigeon Was A Real Fancy Rare Edition
That Pigeon Was A Real Fancy Rare Edition
Pigeons are extremely cautious about where they nest and raise their young.
Pigeons do not believe in mortgages.
It's a Modest House, see it on the way to Work
It's a Modest House, see it on the way to Work
It's gonna be easier to walk by this guys house in half a year, but
feel a lot of complicated things walking past it
every time on the way to work
Once offered this guy twenty bucks and he must have thought it was meant for sex because he refused it. In that moment he showed great resilience in the face of this meat grinder of a world.
But he also has no mortgage
so maybe his needs are less
When it's closing up time at work, thinking about living here?
You're going to work today so you don't have to be quite that humble just yet.
But You Are Close.
Even if your Safety Net is working.
Things get bad, people fall off, whether or not they want to, and that is just how it is.
The homeless kids your age in the Park have given you some tips on where to go when things get bad.
You can't go home, you have no home. You have no money. You have no resources. Welcome to the wilds.
Before it was a movie theater it was a feminist film making non profit, before that it was a ski factory and a marijuana processing facility, before that it was a kombucha brewery, before that it was another movie theater with a bowling alley, before that it was an upscale cafe and bakery, before that it was an underground night club.
Work This Year Sucked
Work This Year Sucked
Go Make Money If You Disagree With Me
Go On In There And Tell Your Boss You're Quitting...
Go On In There And Tell Your Boss You're Quitting...
I'll wait out here until you're finished talking it over.
...And Now Welcome To Your New Job You Fresh Young Thing!
...And Now Welcome To Your New Job You Fresh Young Thing!
You're in charge of making sure everybody has a home.
It's Going To Be Nearly Impossible To Make Happen.
It's Going To Be Nearly Impossible To Make Happen.
Traveling away from the city in the night you feel cold and lonely, but you're so used to being cold and lonely that it feels more like being a radio or a television. Like you aren't tuned in to making money or being in love or having a home or learning about the world or anything useful, you're just sitting on a boat, waiting to go to the new job.
Maybe think this was the same place you grew up in if it were a little bit more interesting.
You could argue that the cranes dipping into the boats catch pick up fish and swallow them and spit them back out into the boats to be refilled by the ocean.
Spend time looking at that many lights without getting a little bit sentimental for the lights of childhood, and see if that attitude allows for getting ahead in life.
It's been a while since you've been back here.
It's been a while since you've been back here.
Hard to believe these are offices now.
It's not a bad place, childhood
It's not a bad place, childhood
You can look out the window at a place like that city and wonder about it later when you're playing in a field.
And the city was a field once too.
oh wow
this is the loveliest place in the world
just kidding put me in a dumpster please
Is This My New Home?
Is This My New Home?
It's so soft and warm here I could be here forever and never want to go away from here even if I died.
Maybe This Is It Instead
Maybe This Is It Instead
There is no need for any kind of altercation now that we've solved the housing crisis. Everyone has a home and meaningful work and an infinite world of possiblities to interact with, thanks to you!
This is way nicer than people talk about in old books.
Akira Kurosawa said:
Akira Kurosawa said:
"In the pre-war era when itinerant home-remedy salesmen still wandered the country, they had a traditional patter for selling a potion that was supposed to be particularly effective in treating burns and cuts. A toad with four legs in front and six behind would be placed in a box with mirrors lining the four walls. The toad, amazed at it's own appearance from every angle, would break into an oily sweat. This sweat would be collected and simmered for 3,721 days while being stirred with a willow branch. The result was the marvelous potion.
When writing about myself, I feel something like that toad in the box."
Counting Crows Poem
Counting Crows Poem
One Crow Sorrow, Sorrow
Two Crows Joy, Mirth
Three Crows A Girl, Funeral
Four Crows A Boy, Birth
Five Crows Silver, Heaven
Six Crows Gold, Hell
Seven Crows A Secret Never To Be Told,
Seven Crows The Devil His Own Self.
Better not try any harder tho, that was a lot.
You Made It Home After All
You Made It Home After All
It's time to sleep, it's time to rest, you've done a good job and you can go ahead and wake up tomorrow.
Maybe you can see about having a go at it again once things are back in working order.
Good work today.
These Structures Are Old
These Structures Are Old
Don't worry about what they mean, they're everywhere now.
They're not tombs, even tho they look like 'em and even tho people get buried under them.
Bridges, through ways, overpasses, high ways, by ways, lanes, traffic, consultations, nourishment, refusal of the call.
It's probably not going to kill you.
But if it does hang on, we'll be with you shortly.
You are a little cutie pie
and
I love you very much.
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