EXHIBIT 37
“I have two daughters. They are by different mothers, but my exes, they get along. We don’t all spend time, but they know each other, pass children back and forth, sometimes have heart to hearts. I spend a lot of time with my music, but I try to see my daughters every day. They don’t live with me. That is best for everyone, I think.” –Leah Johnston
Perfect, sitting in for Jimmy Noonan. –Paul Yamazaki
“Licorice stick” is the name of that thing.. That wood, Tony Scott said, “They call it grenadilla. It’s what they hung Jesus, and all those criminals from, on the cross.” After they played their first number, Scott said “We oughta copyright that thing.” Buddy De Franco said “We ought to have copyrighted it 60 years ago.” –Steve Dickison
Gorgeously NOMI-esque… –Eric D. Clark
The kind that could get into a knife fight over the use of a diminished chord in the 5th bar of a twelve bar blues. –Michael Cavaseno
They call you “Blue” because no one can remember your name after you leave with the finest girl in the club but they definitely remember that you blew some serious shit while you were on the bandstand. –Kevin Carnes
Barney Bigard!!!! -David Boyce
Synesthete distracted by color of the night. –Janaki Ranpura
EXHIBIT 38
Anything really does help. That’s never even stretched the definition, of “anything” or of “help.” A dixie cup isn’t just whistling dixie. Disposable used to be the term applied to picnic goods, useful if waste engendering paper objects. The once new idea of the “product.” Thus the word got applied to plastics. Then, and henceforth, it’s been engineered insidiously, suited to fit people. Disposable People. There’s a book, you can look it up. Keep your hoodie zipped for warmth and semi/impossible anonymity. Keep your clothes color-crayoned the color of shadows. Keep your things in a waterproof sack, if you’re able. Keep your good humor up. Keep and propagate, what do you call it: empathy, without which, like the song goes, nobody’s anybody nohow. –Steve Dickison
I’m curious about this person. His/Her handwriting stacks neatly in order. The slightly slanted to the left gives a feeling of sensitivity and isolation at the same time. –Chompunutt Mayta
homeless person looking mean –Jeri James
The invisible man can be seen with Rowdy Roddy Pipers’ sunglasses…. –Beth Moore-Love
Had been raped by clergy –Wendy Ultan
EXHIBIT 39
This need and this mess are a place from which I’ll steer clear for now. I know there are plenty who will take this one in. The vulnerability is too surface-visible not to get another bidder. I got other things to do ~~ Janaki Ranpura
Oh, boy.
And it’s a boy! Traveling at the speed of light. Stuffed toy was recommended by his supervisor for those late nights while coding new apps. The books & magazines are a retro statement. No one at his firm reads “evil” paper anymore. Think of it as a personal announcement of being “special”, outside the immediate inside, without really being outside. His smile begs the “cute” gurl just down from Portland in the cubicle next to his to help him ask a boy in a different department to “hook” up with him as he waggish and shy, even though he twitters an average couple dozen tweets an hour. When he grows old he will be clueless and not care because his meds will be infused directly into his bloodstream by a device that is part of his smart watch (soon to be grafted into his wrist via 6 month minimum renewable lease.) Life is so good. –Peter Maravelis
Small dose of acid taking Google techie drunk on vodka infused cocktails cutting in front of me on line at my neighborhood tacqueria sometime around last call. His name is Cooper and he’s from Tennessee. He went to Clemson been living in the city for four years. –David Boyce
Johnny Depp’s long time stunt double. Only he knows that you’re a better actor than him but you’re cool with it because you hate interviews and all the trappings of Hollywood. –Kevin Carnes
the world’s greatest chess player, frank ‘muppet’ shapiro. –Dave Mihaly
At 11:30am, Peter decided to move all the contents from his top drawer into the closet. This was a big deviation from his standard routine of eating a bologna sandwich and watching the Price is Right. –Rebecca Cross
EXHIBIT 40
No one in the Drag community thought you were a real assassin. –Kevin Carnes
koan kitt, changeling sibling of eartha and drum –Dave Mihaly
Just killed James Bond. No more sequels. Grieve it, bitches. –Emily Carter
Even though the wife and kids were visiting Grandma for the entire week, Harold double bolted the front door, the hallway door, the bedroom door AND the closet door. –Rebecca Cross
EXHIBIT 41
When the water appeared you made boats
when the fish appeared you made nets
when the fish were sparse you made due
when the fish disappeared from the sea
you made an offering
when the water dried up you made a wish
the hands that scaled fish
that sewed nets
that built boats
now stitch wishes
and tuck dreams into creases
and folds
and boats
and boats
and the night time
and the dark
and the sound
of the rushing sea
and a dream
and a lie
and what remains
-Walter Kitundu
Sweet man. Smells like cinnamon –Wendy Ultan
Exhibit 42
I thought sex would be enough to heal his wounds, but he wouldn’t communicate enough. I mean, he could communicate with his body, and I thought that was enough. It wasn’t. He was also sometimes violent. There was so much pain there. I wanted to help, but I couldn’t, I wasn’t strong enough. It hurt too much and it just seemed like we ended up hurting each other more as a result. It wasn’t something we could fuck away. I thought it would, I thought it could. He was so good. But even that was, well, sometimes love is saying goodbye. I am glad I still have this photo though. It means a lot to me. -Justin Desmangles
My dear poet soul, saying little. When you speak, it’s worth paying attention. -Janaki Ranpura
Exhibit 43
Lord mercy a ghost spirit a mischief howler. -Jade Brooks
Ghost of charcoal, irreducible smudge in the corridor. This one I cannot wait to meet, even though it will be a meeting that will make my hair crawl. –Janaki Ranpura
You’re a “Ghost Fixer” for those individuals who have tried and failed to challenge big business or government over work place, environmental, or corporate injustices. You, somehow, manage to infiltrate the dreams of those who seem to have no conscience and bring them into a “better” sense of humanity and kindness. –Kevin Carnes
Gravity Shadow. . Bipolar polyglot .Obsessed w sweeping. –Dave Mihaly
Exhibit 44
Mr. Todd waiting to cross the street it is late afternoon and all he’s done is errands. –Jade Brooks
listening toward life-death-life decision about the betrayer –Gayle Mohrbacker
I know his shoes, white wingtips. I know the quarter he flips through his fingers. It stays shiny. I know his cane, I know his pocket watch. But usually he has a smile. Today he’s tired. And when he’s tired, he can be deadly. –Janaki Ranpura
A collector of money and souls… _Josiahluis Alderete
Even Shrimp Boy is afraid to say your name and made sure not to mention you during his trial. –Kevin Carnes
Exhibit 45
pass the sprouts + pass the IPA. this guy sets up sound equipment I can tell –Jade Brooks
“Gone. Our city. Here’s where it was.” –Gayle Mohrbacker
This is the only kind of guy who messengers in Manhattan, wearing his SF t-shirt and wondering when the fuck if ever he’ll get back home. Not another winter here, please. –Janaki Ranpura
“They Broke My heart” –San Francisco –Emily Carter
Exhibit 46
I’m gonna bang on this thing till I can walk straight through to the other side. –Janaki Ranpura
“As expected. A fatality now. I accuse, spare, teach.” –Gayle Mohrbacker
Exhibit 47
Singing is a power. When I’m up there, it’s my magic circle. I want to get out of here for sure, but when I’m in that circle of light, I’m in an incantation, safe. I can just enjoy this body I have, this person I am, instead of having to steer it all the time, tirelessly, always with bravery, in the direction of some ultimate freedom. I just get a moment to relax and have a good time. -Janaki Ranpura
Exhibit 48
Some nights, I don’t got it. Notes wrong. Sweaty, distracted. Some nights, though, I can feel all of them, every livid quivering cunt. They want to fuck my shadow. –Janaki Ranpura
When mercury is in retrograde, this man is compelled to sing in a pitch that summons his shadow for a dance. –Jake Head
Exhibit 49
You have restored more than half of the Victorians in the Western Addition, often times making journeys to the mountains to find the exact “old growth” woods that were originally used to build them. You prefer to work alone because you have a low tolerance for “craftsmen” and that means your projects take far longer to complete but are worth every dollar. You enjoy cheap beer and expensive Bourbon. Your wife runs the business because you’re terrible at it and your collection of vintage tools is unparalleled. –Kevin Carnes
Since my husband retired, he can’t stop fixing the house. At least our nephew has a place now; sometimes I send him over there, when I just want a little peace, a day with no paint fumes. I appreciate his skill. A woman my age, though, some days I just want to watch soaps, not stand all day ready to help with his manias. –Janaki Ranpura
Exhibit 50
Exhibit 51
My guy, he’s a powerful beast, mean in the ring. I’ve never missed a fight. When he’s in the corner between bouts, half-dying from lack of water and stars in his head and I don’t know what, that’s when I see him as he really wants to be, you know? No country or kin. He’s just pure animal, all the way there. Nothin’ in his eyes. I know that’s what he loves, and that’s when I love him the most. –Janaki Ranpura
Exhibit 52
Exhibit 53
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