Lamentation I Jack is laying flat on the concrete.  A small puddle of blood is forming behind his head.  He is not breathing. This terrible outcome is the result of one small misstep.  His foot didn’t quite make it all the way off the curb.  His heel got caught on the edge and his ankle rolled, turning his entire body 180 degrees as gravity took over.  When he exited the small sandwich shop, he didn’t think twice about stepping off the curb instead of taking the ramp.   It was a sudden death that surprised everyone.  Although Jack never got the chance to consider what he had done, his family was shaken by the permanent change.  One small misstep altered the path of his loved ones forever. ~ü [This is a film treatment for a series of five lamentations.  Lamentation III is here.  Lamentation IV is here.  Lamentation V is here.] [Painting: William Blake, Nebuchadnezzar, 1795/1805]

Lamentation I

Jack is laying flat on the concrete.  A small puddle of blood is forming behind his head.  He is not breathing.

This terrible outcome is the result of one small misstep.  His foot didn’t quite make it all the way off the curb.  His heel got caught on the edge and his ankle rolled, turning his entire body 180 degrees as gravity took over.  When he exited the small sandwich shop, he didn’t think twice about stepping off the curb instead of taking the ramp.  

It was a sudden death that surprised everyone.  Although Jack never got the chance to consider what he had done, his family was shaken by the permanent change.  One small misstep altered the path of his loved ones forever.

~ü

[This is a film treatment for a series of five lamentations.  Lamentation III is here.  Lamentation IV is here.  Lamentation V is here.]

[Painting: William Blake, Nebuchadnezzar, 1795/1805]

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    Lamentation I Jack is laying flat on the concrete. A small puddle of blood is forming behind his head. He is not...
  2. barelytolerable said: My brother has an old English textbook in which he graffitoed this image with another man behind Nebuchadnezzar, intimately violating him.
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