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Justify The Benches
Justify The Benches
mIossifidis by Miranda Iossifidis February 27th, 2002
Justify the benches. This is what I do every time I encounter one. There are lots here, this ski village-type place, so there’s lots of reasoning to be done. Sometimes I find myself wondering whether I’m the only one who stops to think why the fuck someone’s put a bench right there. And then I get back to the point. This may take a few moments. Like today I saw a bench on the bank of a river. Except facing the other way. I think, why here, why not down the road? Who makes these decisions? And then I look around and think, this place isn’t that bad. And I sit down.

There’s more to say on this topic, I can feel it. All I’ll say is, next time you see a bench, ask yourselves why, and then you’ll appreciate your surroundings more. If only because someone else has so much, they put a bench there.



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