I have a camera,
That’s very old.
It’s special.
It doesn’t just take
A picture of things you can see,
It takes pictures of things
You don’t want to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s made of stone,
From the bottom of the river
That divided Babylon.
It records its terrible images
On film made of ancient paper
Boiled in the pot
Of a Haitian Voodoo witch doctor.
The lens was plucked,
From the eye of a long-dead Pharaoh,
Who knows what horrors
That lens has focused before
It was even placed in the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I aim the camera at a man or a woman,
And press the shutter release,
It captures not the physical form of the subject,
But it records the soul,
The spirit, the ghost,
The what-the-will-become
If left to their own devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Never show the image
To the subject it photographed,
For this is surely
The way to madness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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