Detroit Police Station - Jimini's Art 2009


Reflections of reality, 

Physical state

Abandoned 

Deemed unnecessary unimportant

Non threat to national security

Unneeded nor a right to protection

As in their lives

The United States makes clear where it stands with regards to these men

The sparsely scattered women in their midst negligible, 

All long maybe al(l)ways neglected

The streets reflect the photos

Discarded by organisation and law

No infrastructure

Returned to a time before the First Nations warded, 

Created an order in natures’ chaotic strive for existence.

Empty eyes, pinned, sad,

Frustrated, angry, frightened, bored, challenging, challenged eyes

Look, regard, stare and glare 

From dirty, water stained, damaged or glaringly pristine photos

Full face, right and left side

Imagine: “thumb, index, middle, pinky; both hands” and “Here’s 
a cloth”

Finger prints noted, 

Left behind, as the photos

1,000’s of faces, forsaken

United in their uniformly unkempt, uncared for uncaring

A building once a citadel of law 

Where was justice?

Those who may receive protection 

Have been placed elsewhere

Here where there never was justice, 

Law and order are relinquished.

These images, 

Those people outside 

These people's images inside

All are cast aside.

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