Tonight they’ll be closing up this world
Sweeping the cigarette butts off the street
And musical anthems dished out
From a thousand sub-base woofered Novas
Shy boys from estated wars
Scarred faces supported by crutches
Know only too well welfare receipts
Kindness benefits from a 20 million payers
Petty pub violence mirrored at wife/ girlfriends/ daughters door.

Morning Coffee, 2003, Oil on canvas
Iain Faulkner, born 1973 is a British figurative painter, born and raised in Glasgow. His style of painting is hyper-realistic.

Set photography - Taxi Driver  (1976) - dir. Martin Scorsese

Happy Christmas from bad times:
You are the Christmas of the outlaws,
Of those who laugh in disgrace,
Poor buggers who are betrayed,
And children of good race.

Vukovar 1992

A drunk mind speaks a sober heart

Alexander Novoselov (b.1980 )- "Brothers." 2017.

“Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock.”

— F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Two, “On the Tarantulas” (excerpt).

A Finnish island during all four seasons.

“With the characters of the past written all over you, you men of today in the land of education have you concealed yourselves perfectly from all interpreters of characters.”

—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Two, “On the Land of Education” (edited excerpt).

House above Lake Michigan (1966) in Olympia Fields, IL, USA, by Y.C. (Yau Chun) Wong