its white walls were streaked

"Its White Walls Were Streaked," March 21, 2022 (#80)

title from The New Yorker's "The Uncanny Impact of Charles Ray's Sculptures" by Peter Schjeldahl (February 2022)

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr (2019)

Empire of Things: How We Became A World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First by Frank Trentmann (2016)

Empire Records (1995)

Boardwalk Empire 1.1, " Boardwalk Empire" (2010)

Empire Falls 1.1, "Episode 1" (2005)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Empire 1.1, "Pilot" (2015)

Its White Walls Were Streaked

The map was an enormous hit, reprinted and copied frequently.

Spending goes on summer houses, interior design and high-end ski wax.

Who knows where thoughts come from? They just appear

for taking orders and collecting from your restaurants, hotels, what

steps forward, as the Admiral moves away slightly confused.

I don't get scared up on a ladder like a little girl.

It could be a tricky play, though. You know they're tight.

That is the bitter truth of many countries.

Pledge to take whatever the harvest delivers and even help with

that feeling you get when you get out of a hot bath,

for Neptune yields the treasures from his watery kingdom.

The assignment was to draw our most vivid dream. That's mine

with stars moving right to left in background.

Best believe they try to make us kill each other. That ain't gonna

keep the loophole open for more than a decade. It was

going up in flames in incinerators. The changing composition

was chowing down speed, too, you know.

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