As/Is







11.23.2003


juxta / posed, almost Jukka / posed

In this picture I've cut
from the morning paper
there are a million
single-pixel pilgrims
inside / outside the
Grand Mosque at Mecca
completing their hajj
by circling seven times around
the holy black rock that is
the Kaaba. On the back
unwittingly captured by
the same scissor cuts
Michael Jackson is
facing away from Mecca
as he leaves the Santa Barbara
County Sheriff's Department
after being arrested on
child molestation charges. It is
a chance juxtaposition
that needs no commentary
from me. But as an aside
explain to me again
why we're in Iraq.