Sentences with phrase «cigarette butts scattered»

On Saturday mornings, when the weekly commuters who usually rush in like blood have emptied out like a stomach and left only cigarette butts scattered like piñata droppings, I roam around thinking of the dead four hundred, passing the library and remembering it as a reservoir, not full of books but of water; I gather up anecdotes from when this neighborhood was something else.

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-LRB-...) Poignant narratives are hinted at by small objects scattered about the backside of the walls — ceramic replications of cigarette butts, bottle caps, toilet paper rolls and beer bottles seem remnants of lives that once inhabited the spaces that these walls no longer define» (Excerpt from Eleanor Heartney's essay, «Something there is that doesn't love a wall»).

Here, adhesive sheets were scattered with the cigarette butts collected from his previous Like an intruder... exhibition and applied with drips of butterfly pea flower tea.