Plague Journal, Pirate Ship
Walking a few blocks from the house after nightfall, we came upon the ‘pirate ship’ that we’d heard of. This one was in celebration of Halloween. Nevertheless the creators had a point of irony. The ship was christened USS Covid. Every ship has a captain, and a crew. I captured some photos of the skeletal crew and the Captain standing behind the big wheel. Just outside the circle of LED illumination was the skeletal form of a man dragged by rope in the sea behind the ship, someone who had been made to “walk the plank.” If you pause to think, you encounter the icy thought; cruelty is inscribed within any enterprise bent on plunder.
