Dina & Dan Return

Natural disaster, in how you frame it, in what you make of it. The National Guard shows up; 17 year olds with tanks and AK-47's strapped across their backs, they are walking around, pacing. The way in is closed but the way out is open, evacuation. What can Randy Lee and Katie Jean do more than this, pace inside a space in a head far away in a city unknown. This is how we are policed. No electricity, and then light, no water, and then. Where can we procure an AK-47. You loot, we shoot. What more is this that is no more, how roads are imprinted into your brain of places you will never ago. How that feels, to have all of this spatial information about place. Go here, no, go here. Turn left. When you leave, where you go. You should plan on seeing this and this and this while you are out. We have been away long enough that those places do not exist. Sigh. Recover. How many days until we fully understand catastrophe? 364, to be exact, take a day off. Randy Lee understands bravery in all of its permutations. An AK-47 strapped to his back. How to live in a world that is a building perpetually coming down. How a building is closest to heaven when falling. Expansion, relief. The National Guard show up, FEMA shows up, Your President shows up briefly, Red Cross, everyone is here at the table, we are feasting. What it means to feast on remains, the guts in the streets, no you cannot arrive, yes you have to leave. What it means to know a place so intimately and never return.