Dallas Clayton Writer, Artist and Author of An Awesome Book.
CAPTAIN
CAPTAIN When the ship is going down and your baby is still sleeping do you wake her to let her know its over or close your eyes and lay beside her waiting?
ASSIGNMENT
ASSIGNMENT How carefree it is to be born into a gang. Lines clearly drawn enemies color-coordinated no other goal but to posture, hate, attack and attempt to survive past your 30s.
PERFECT END
PERFECT END In the original story of the Little Mermaid Ariel is given a knife by her sisters and told to kill the Prince so she can become a mermaid forever. Instead she commits suicide by throwing herself over the side of a ship. This didn’t make it into the motion picture.
RESOLUTIONS PART II
RESOLUTIONS PART II Every day this year I would like to go somewhere new and do something I have never done. Nothing too fancy. Just an attempt at embracing the unfamiliar and remembering that no one really has any idea what it’s all about in the first place.
CONTACT
CONTACT There’s only so hard you can throw something before it comes whistling back down and lands on top of you. Even if you try all day. You’ll never get it into space.
DANGER
DANGER What must it be like to decide to start a company that makes barbed wire for keeping people out of places that look so fun to get inside that they’d be willing to climb a fence.
BALENCIAGA
BALENCIAGA When the water begins to rise and your fingers are too flustered to fasten a raft from salvaged wood and leftover rope will you regret the cumulative hours you’ve spent the past years looking at purses online and wondering how many is too many?
RUNNING
RUNNING My son’s cat escaped three times. The last time he was gone over a month. Jumped out the kitchen window two stories down And somehow ended up in Studio City. When I went to retrieve him the people were nice enough a small apartment and more love for cats than I ever could muster. [...]
PRAYER
PRAYER Thanks this evening for all the diseases I did not contract on accident oblivious to the many tiny animals, wild plants, and floating particles waiting for a host to cripple.
FEAR
FEAR You can catch on fire in one quick flash if you get close enough to the sun. And even way down here you can get pretty sore just walking around with you shirt off.
ACRES
ACRES I swear I’ve been to more fancy houses than I could care to count big as all hell in real life but never once with hologram wallpaper and foods you can’t buy yet because they don’t have names.
NO LIMIT
NO LIMIT We’ve been raising a few generations now -each more fevered than the last- thinking that modeling is a noble and necessary profession.
OLDEN TIMES
OLDEN TIMES Must have been nice to be able to rob a bank in the days when it was cool. Just walk right up to the teller waving a pistol around, bandana over your mouth making your demands. In and out, clean as a whistle. No trouble at all. Or maybe it wasn’t nice. Maybe [...]