RUSTED OUT I am rusted out / Was like a new penny once / Nice and shiny / Sharp as a tack / Clean, clear lines that will cut you, / if your held me too close. / So bright, you needed sunglasss to see me clearly Now, I am used up / Not old, but used up! / My lines are soft and pliable / Covered with dust and debris / Bent into funny shapes through overuse / I can’t fit into a slot anymore My knees creak for wear / My eyes dim from seeing so many horrors / My skin is brittle from being washed so very much / My heart beats so slow, / it takes more time to get blood to my brain / My voice is a whisper / — not strong / — not joyful / My hair, what is left of it, / as gray as steel I walk slowly / and deliberately / I don’t run / I just walk with my head bowed, / looking for cracks in the pavement / Lest I should slip into one and break something I am just rusted out / No good to anyone, anymore; / except to add to their collection of pennies. Paul Alleyne / 10/31/2007
“Badges?... We don’t need no… stinkin’ badges!” is one of the most frequently quoted, misquoted, and parodied movie quotations in history. In 2005, it was chosen as #36 on the American Film Institute list, AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movie The original quotation comes from the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Humphrey Bogart. In one of the scenes in the movie a Mexican bandit leader (Gold Hat played by Alfonso Bedoya) is trying to convince Fred C Dobbs (played by Bogart) and company that they are the Federales. / Dobbs: ‘If you’re the police where are your badges?’ / Gold Hat: ‘Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!’[1] / This in turn was adapted from B Traven’s 1927 novel upon which the movie was based: “All right,” Curtain shouted back. “If you are the police, where are your badges? Let’s see them.” “Badges, to god-damned hell with badges! We have no badges. In fact, we don’t need badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges, you god-damned cabrón and ching’ tu madre! Come out from that shit-hole of yours. I have to speak to you.”
Inspired by my visit to the Dallas Zoo. / A combined 3 digital photographs and Photoshop created images, merged to form this surreal piece.
Mountains south of Palmdale, California. The original plain sky was replaced and the yellow plane was added for effect.
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