Last weekend Amber and I found one of the saddest finds on record. Just down the street from my home we came across a suburban sidewalk completely dumped with a huge chunk of someone’s belongings. There was a filing cabinet full of papers and mementos, old clothes and electronic equipment, photo albums, and an empty birdcage. We rooted though it a bit and decided only to take a few things since it was beginning to rain and the whole thing seemed mysterious.
When we rifled through the papers and the pictures a really dark and terrible story began to unfold. These things that we had found pushed my boundaries as far as this whole “found” culture goes – reading through these letters does not offer the same thrill of finding love letters written by grade-schoolers. These typed pages are the workings of a very very bitter and sad man.
I am still trying to process what this find means; it has been kind of messing with me whether or not this is going too far. Let me know what you think about these.
1.86′ed in 86
2.And you know it
3.Basically a good guy
4. Believe
5.Bob is a gentle man
6. Bullhead
7.Good guy part II
8.He is winning tonight over Kansas
9.Honoring your father
10.I can go to sleep at night
11.I let the Gonads speak instead of the heart
12.It is really fucked
13.Just cause
14.Keep you out of troubled waters
15.Made your bed, now lie in it
16.My mind is still ok
17.Sorry that you are dying
18.Then fuck you
19.Time line
20.Until I am out of your heart
21.You are the key
22.You just stole it
23.You look like a sara
24.Ten Commandments
25.Thank you for the nuts
26.Split 1
27.Split 2
Very personal stuff in those letters… Seems wrong to read them, yet the experience was chronicled and abandoned for anyone to read.
Wonder what happened the day his belongings were put out.
Nice pictures, too…
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