FOR THE STREETS

№ 0019·NIGHT 003·Atlantic Avenue, for part of it·AUG 26 2026·1:44–5:35 AM

WEDNESDAY

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

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

1:44–5:35 AM

1:44 AM

A table. A glass of water. A phone, face up. A mask.

4816, bw

2:17 AM

A shop window with an oud in it. Someone stopped to look.

4817, bw — The window. The window with the mask in it, which is not what happened but is what it felt like. The window, photocopied.

4819, double — The window. The window with the mask in it, which is not what happened but is what it felt like. The window, photocopied.

3:46 AM

He got in a cab. He was happy about it.

4822, wine

4823, bw

3:48 AM

Across the street, a sign shaped like a cross. He looked at it for a while.

4826, dawn

3:49 AM. The moon, a cab, a bicycle.

3:50 AM. A delivery.

3:52 AM

Signs.

4830, xerox — Every sign on the block, photocopied.

4831, xerox — Every sign on the block, photocopied.

“Push button for.”
— A sign, 3:52 AM

4:35 AM

Trash night.

4834, bw

4:37 AM

Outside a building numbered 65, a garbage truck was eating. Six people were posing in front of it. They did not know us. They asked for the pictures. This is the pictures.

4838, bw

4841, flash

4:41 AM

Things on the ground.

4848, bw — A napkin. A rollerblade on a trash bag. A pipe.

4855, wine — A napkin. A rollerblade on a trash bag. A pipe.

4:42 AM

A lobby. An elevator. The elevator had a camera in a triangle and a man in it.

4859, negative

4864, xerox — The camera. The man. FOR FIRE DEPT USE ONLY. The ceiling.

4866, bw — The camera. The man. FOR FIRE DEPT USE ONLY. The ceiling.

4:47 AM. One shoe, a railing, the whole city.

4:51 AM

Something spilled on the floor and nobody cleaned it up and it looked like a country.

4871, xerox

5:14 AM. A red light. We don't know what it was for.

5:17 AM

A copy of Walden on the table. Nobody was reading it.

4876, bw

5:35 AM

A couch. The same mask.

4877, wine — 5:35 AM. 5:35 AM. 5:35 AM and 1:44 AM at the same time.

4878, bw — 5:35 AM. 5:35 AM. 5:35 AM and 1:44 AM at the same time.

People encountered

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

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