Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas) 2017 by the artist John Gerrard, depicts the site of the 'Lucas Gusher' - the world's first major oil find - in Spindletop, Texas in 1901, now barren and exhausted. The site is recreated as a digital simulation and placed at its centre a flagpole bearing a flag of perpetually-renewing pressurised black smoke.
Sometimes Things Happen
The shirt hung on the rack in tatters. Someone else’s smell.
A half-eaten box of chocolate. Valentine’s Day sterility.
Flaccid dance moved on a floor without others. Shaken hips like air guitars.
Song box muffled falsetto. Aural erections wound around in twos and fours.
She shared her French Fries and warned friends about writers. They pick apart everyone with their words.
