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from Histoire de l’Oeil

photo John Hinde, A member of the wardens service fitting a gas mask, 1944

© The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

i’ll lie down,
radiant,
clothed in laziness,
on a soft couch of genuine dreck;
and quietly,
kissing the knees of the crossties,
the wheel of a locomotive will embrace my neck.

words vladimir mayakovsky from vladimir mayakovsky a tragedy

he gives good meeting

from my buddy brendan mcfadden over at city planning

photo Norman Parkinson for Queen, August 31, 1960

found on flickr

Katharine Hepburn driving along the waterfront with Irene Mayer Selznick at Montego Bay.
(Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)