FOR THE STREETS

№ 0001·NIGHT 001·Atlantic Avenue, for part of it·AUG 26 2026·1:44–5:35 AM

WEDNESDAY

A TABLE → A CAB → A GARBAGE TRUCK → AN ELEVATOR → THE SAME TABLE

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

1:44–5:35 AM

1:44 AM

A table. A glass of water. A phone, face up. A mask. Nobody took anything off.

4816, bw

2:17 AM

A shop that sells ouds. Closed. We stood in front of it for eleven minutes. Nobody came.

4817, bw — The window. The window with the mask in it, which is not what happened. The window, photocopied. The copier is fine.

4819, double — The window. The window with the mask in it, which is not what happened. The window, photocopied. The copier is fine.

3:46 AM

He got in a cab. The cab had been waiting there since before we arrived. He looked back once.

4822, wine

4823, bw

3:48 AM

A cross on a wall, lit from behind. He looked at it for a while. It did not do anything.

4826, dawn

3:49 AM. The moon, a cab, a bicycle. Nobody on the bicycle.

3:50 AM. A delivery. We didn't ask what. He didn't say.

3:52 AM

Signs.

4830, xerox — Every sign on the block, photocopied. Some held up better than others.

4831, xerox — Every sign on the block, photocopied. Some held up better than others.

“Push button for.”
— A sign. It did not say what for.

4:35 AM

Trash night. The bags were out early. They were not going anywhere.

4834, bw

4:37 AM

Outside a building numbered 65, a garbage truck had its mouth open and six people we did not know were posing in front of it. They asked for the pictures. These are the pictures. The truck kept eating.

4838, bw

4841, flash

4:41 AM

Things on the ground.

4848, bw — A napkin. A scooter on a trash bag. A pipe. None of them explained.

4855, wine — A napkin. A scooter on a trash bag. A pipe. None of them explained.

4:42 AM

A lobby. An elevator. A camera in a triangle, and a man in the elevator who had noticed the camera.

4859, negative

4864, xerox — The camera. The man. FOR FIRE DEPT USE ONLY. The ceiling. We got off on eleven. Nobody had pressed eleven.

4866, bw — The camera. The man. FOR FIRE DEPT USE ONLY. The ceiling. We got off on eleven. Nobody had pressed eleven.

4:47 AM. One shoe on a railing. The city under it. Nobody claimed the shoe.

4:51 AM

Something spilled on the floor and nobody cleaned it up. By morning it had a shape. The shape was Ohio.

4871, xerox

5:14 AM. A red light. We don't know what it was for. It was on the whole time.

5:17 AM

A copy of Walden on the table. Nobody was reading it. Nobody had been reading it for some time.

4876, bw

5:35 AM

A couch. The same mask. Four hours later. It had not come off.

4877, wine — 5:35 AM. 5:35 AM. 5:35 AM and 1:44 AM printed on top of each other. It came out like that on its own.

4878, bw — 5:35 AM. 5:35 AM. 5:35 AM and 1:44 AM printed on top of each other. It came out like that on its own.

People encountered

someone in a mask · a man in a cab · a man who looked at a cross · a delivery rider · six people and a garbage truck · a man in an elevator · the elevator

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