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# Fireworks
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/fireworks/
- Published: 2021-07-05T22:40:21.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:49:22.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

Fireworks showered the nation last night, in part to commemorate the end of masking and distancing. This is cause for celebration, no question. But it seems like a sane society would pause to mourn their dead, maybe even have rethink before launching explosives and boasting about its economy. Last year I thought everything might change as I walked through an empty city, feeling anxious and ghosted but also hopeful. If a rupture must come, I thought, maybe we’ll find something better on the other side. Healthcare, at least, maybe even a sense of common cause. But if a plague couldn’t accomplish this, I shudder to think what it might take.

#### [Bohren & Der Club of Gore – Black City Skyline](http://jamesr323.sg-host.com/radio/Black%20City%20Skyline.mp?ref=jamesreeves.co)

###### From *Sunset Mission* | Wonder, 2000 | [Boomkat](https://boomkat.com/products/sunset-mission?ref=jamesreeves.co)

[http://jamesr323.sg-host.com/radio/Black%20City%20Skyline.mp3](http://jamesr323.sg-host.com/radio/Black%20City%20Skyline.mp3?ref=jamesreeves.co)

An ode to cities. A cigarette on a rain-slicked street while neon blinks mindlessly through the night.