I Think It Does, A Little, Hurt

Nothing Is Ever The Same As They Said It Was.

It Gets To Seem As If Way Back In The Garden Of Eden After The Fall, Adam And Eve Had Begged The Lord To Forgive Them And He, In His Boundless Exasperation, Had Said, "all Right, Then. Stay. Stay In The Garden. Get Civilized. Procreate. Muck It Up." And They Did.

It's Important To Take Bad Pictures. It's The Bad Ones That Have To Do With What You've Never Done Before. They Can Make You Recognize Something You Hadn't Seen In A Way That Will Make You Recognize It When You See It Again.

It Would Be Beautiful To Photograph The Winners Of Everything From Nobel To Booby Prize, Clutching Trophy, Or Money Or Certificate, Solemn Or Smiling Or Tear Stained Or Bloody, On The Precarious Pinnacle Of The Human Landscape.

Nothing Is Ever The Same As They Said It Was. It's What I've Never Seen Before That I Recognize.