Instead of writing an op/ed piece about monuments and progress, I decided to offer tribute with these haikus inspired by photos I snapped during the Stardust's last weekend of business.
The first one wrote itself, well at least 41% of itself:
in these latter days
new stardust book on sale
lost irony found
shadows trace the past
physics of our histories
temporary scribes
ashes to ashes
stars nova in stiff silence
darkness, my old friend
drink to remember
to forget to drink to drink
wait, i need a drink
And this one a couple of days before the implosion"
ugly skeleton
a shell of former glory
progress makes perfect
and a lot of these from the night of the implosion
shaken camera
resurrects lights then becomes
a digital pyre
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1. I go to Vegas every year, I never stayed at Stardust but I drank there a lot and I loved going there. I looked foward going there to drink and party every time I go to Vegas. I had load's of fun, I meent a lot of great people. When I go back to Vegas In Aug. It wont be the same with out STARDUST there. I'll miss you... BYE.
Steve at 2:19AM on Jan 29th 2007