Off-shore oil wells in Galveston Bay, June 1972.

Mountains of Canada, 1984

How did the Irish poet say it, hmm? "E'er friend for today, is tomorrow's heartbreak."

“One does not only wish to be understood when one writes, one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”

—The Gay Science, §381 (excerpt).

Trans-Europ-Express, 1968

A freighter moves slowly up the Houston ship channel as girls fish from the shore, September 1973. Oil derricks are visible in the background.

Ted Kaczynski in 1978, the same year he constructed and mailed his first bomb

Katayama Bokuyo, Forest

About a year later, as the killings between mafia mobs continued, on March 21, 1980, Don Angelo Bruno was shot in the right temple and killed trying to get out of his car in front of his home in the Little Italy section of Philly. After his murder, the New York mob specifically told Philadelphia’s police and EMT’s not to touch Bruno’s body and to let it remain in his car as a brutal message to all. Angelo Bruno’s corpse sat slumped over in his Cadillac for three days without being moved.

Hunter and daughter before sunset waiting for a deer. Some of the hunters leave food out for the animals before the season starts. Once the deer get into routine feeding, the hunters can shoot them without much effort. Near San Antonio, December 1973.

A Texaco crude oil tank blazes against the night after being struck by lightning, near Houston, September 1972.

But the book always burns
As the story takes it turn
An leaves a broken man