No Stopping / The End

No Stopping [eastside, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 8January 2018

No Stopping

It is important to continue on down this road

any way out is a way down or at least a way out
to worry about

even though what lies around the next corner

might be the thing we buried under this road
and it might be better that that stayed buried
back up along the coast

It is not as though there were not warnings to

go around no there were more than enough of

those to attend to but we had the burial to

worry about and

any way out is a way down or at least a way out

#CA storm - rainbow forms above Montecito while law enforcement and the curious survey the destruction on Hot Springs Road in Montecito. Deadly overnight mudflow and debris destroyed several homes in the area.: image via SBCFireInfo @EliasonMike, 9 January 2018

At least 13 dead as heavy rains trigger flooding, mudflows and freeway closures across Southern California Photo @WallySkalij: image via L.A. Times Photos @latimesphotos, 9 January 2018

The death toll has increased: At least 13 dead as heavy rains trigger flooding, mudflows and freeway closures across Southern California: image via Los Angeles Times @latimes, 9 January 2018

Storm Update: due to large amount of debris/mud/water, #Hwy101 thru #Montecito is expected to remain CLOSED until Thurs night, Jan. 11. Use #Hwy5 as detour to/from So Cal, avoid non-essential travel and get our QuickMap app for latest road conditions @CalTransDist7 @CalTransDist6: image via CalTransDist 5 @CaltransD5, 9 January 2018

Rio Grande Bosque, Sandoval County, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizàrraga, 1 January 2018

Couch negotiation, 1952 | by MichaelRyerson

Couch negotiation, 1952 | Look Magazine, November 18, 1952. I have no idea.: image via Michael Ryerson, 8 January 2018

Give 'em something to remember, 1952 | by MichaelRyerson

Give 'em something to remember, 1952 | Photo by Dennis Stock, New York, 1952.: image via Michael Ryerson, 8 January 2018

Bite this off, Joan Crawford, 1966 | by MichaelRyerson

Bite this off, Joan Crawford, 1956. Joan Crawford asks her assistant to bite off a loose thread from her dress at the Dorchester Hotel, London, 1956.: image via Michael Ryerson, 1 November 2017

President #Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office.: image via Evan Vucci @evanvucci, 9 January 2018

Probably the most fascinating pool spray I've ever done: image via Evan Vucci @evanvucci, 9 January 2018

@realDonaldTrump's hands are seen as he listens to members of congress discuss Immigration reform in the Cabinet Room of the White House. #45POTUS: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 9 January 2018

@realDonaldTrump'discusses Immigration issues with @WhipHoyer and @SenDurbin during a record long pool spray by the White House Press pool. #Immigration #DACA #access: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 9 January 2018

@realDonaldTrump watches the #NationalChampionship with members of the ROTC: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 8 January 2018

@realDonaldTrumpsings national anthem at the National College Football Championship game at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA #NationalChampionship #TrumpTower #NationalAnthem: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 8 January 2018

@realDonaldTrump waves from the back of his SUV as he arrives at Joint Base Andrews for a trip top TN & GA. #trump 's hands are seen as he listens to members of congress discuss Immigration reform in the Cabinet Room of the White House. #45POTUS: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 9 January 2018

@realDonaldTrump makes a statement about the economy via video as @PressSec looks on during her briefing at the White House: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 4 January 2018

President Donald Trump leaves the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, before traveling via Marine One to Camp David in Maryland. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) #trump #donaldtrump #potus #whitehouse: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 5 January 2018

The Limits of #Style Photos from War-Torn #SouthSudan. By Rebecca Adelman.: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 10 January 2018

Rhesus macaques in the snow at a nature reserve in Jiyuan, China Photo: China News Service: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 7 January 2018

#Canada An observation point at the base of Niagara Falls in Niagara Falls, is covered in ice as the falls are illuminated by colored light Photo @geoffrobins #AFP : image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 10 January 2018

#Afghanistan A burqa-clad Afghan women walks in the old part of Herat. Photo @hoshangAP #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 10 January 2018

"Mosul's old heart in ruins six months after IS ousted" #AFP Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 10 January 2018

"Mosul's old heart in ruins six months after IS ousted" #AFP Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 10 January 2018

"Mosul's old heart in ruins six months after IS ousted" #AFP Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 10 January 2018

"Mosul's old heart in ruins six months after IS ousted" #AFP Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 10 January 2018

#Tunisia 200 arrested, dozens hurt in fresh Tunisia unrest Photo Sofien Hamdaoui #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 10 January 2018

Israeli forces set up roadblocks and deploy near the northern West Bank city of Nablus in a manhunt for attackers who shot dead an Israeli settler, 35-year-old rabbi : image via AFP news agency @AFP, 10 January 2018

Israeli forces set up roadblocks and deploy near the northern West Bank city of Nablus in a manhunt for attackers who shot dead an Israeli settler, 35-year-old rabbi : image via AFP news agency @AFP, 10 January 2018

Israeli forces set up roadblocks and deploy near the northern West Bank city of Nablus in a manhunt for attackers who shot dead an Israeli settler, 35-year-old rabbi : image via AFP news agency @AFP, 10 January 2018

#India An Indian student looks into a rocket launcher during the Army Day celebration at a college in Chennai. #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 January 2018

SYRIA - A woman pulls a cart loaded with pieces of metal in Syria's devastated city of Raqa. Photo @Delilsouleman#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 January 2018

SYRIA - Two sisters run across the rubble to embrace after finding each other alive following an air strike on Hamouria, in the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus. Photo @abdfree2#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 January 2018

#Bangladesh Rohingya refugee children carry wood at Kutupalong refugee camp in the Bangladeshi district of Ukhia. Photo @uz_muni#AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 10 January 2018

Chidiock Tichborne: The End

Blood on the Moon (1948): photo by hytam2, 1 April 2014

My prime of youth is but a froste of cares:
My feaste of joy, is but a dishe of payne:
My cropp of corne, is but a field of tares:
And all my good is but vaine hope of gaine:
The daye is gone, and yet I sawe no sonn:
And nowe I live, and nowe my life is donn.

The springe is paste, and yet it hath not sprong,
The fruite is deade, and yet the leaves are greene
My youth is gone, and yet I am but yonge
I sawe the woorld, and yet I was not seene
My threed is cutt, and yet it is not sponn
And nowe I lyve, and nowe my life is donn.

I saught my death, and founde it in my womb,
I lookt for life, and sawe it was a shade.
I trode the earth, and knewe it was my Tombe
And nowe I die, and nowe I am but made
The glasse is full, and nowe the glass is rune
And nowe I live, and nowe my life is donn.

Chidiock Tichborne (c. 1558-20 September 1586): Tychbornes Elegie, written with his owne hand in the Tower before his Execution (1586)

Véronique et son Cancre (1958): photo by Aka Vetala (omoplata 1), 8 February 2014

The unfortunate Chidiock Tichborne came from a devout Catholic family. Tichborne and his father were more than once subjected to investigation by agents of Queen Elizabeth I, and one on occasion charged with possession and use of prohibited "popish" relics. In 1586 he attended meetings of a group of conspirators in an ill-conceived plot to assassinate the Queen and replace her with the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots. The plot was discovered by a double agent in the employ of Elizabeth's spymaster Francis Walsingham. Immobilized by a leg injury and unable to flee, Tichborne was stranded in London, arrested, locked up in the Tower, charged with treason, tried, and, after being found guilty, hanged, taken down while still fully conscious, had his "privities cut off", was "bowelled alive and seeing", then quartered. The poem was sent by the condemned man to his wife, Agnes, on the day before the gruesome execution.