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San Jose Sharks right winger Timo Meier, right, and Anaheim Ducks center Rickard Rakell, left, battle against the boards in the first period of an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/: photo by Reed Saxon/AP, 11 February 2018

Don’t care the science behind this, this look is not OK (Photo by @rodger_sherman): image via Darren Rovell @darrenrovell, 19 February 2018

In 1988, Jack Nicholson paid $175 per seat per game to be front row at Lakers games. This year, he pays $3,000 per seat per game.: image via Darren Rovell @darrenrovell, 19 February 2018

Are these the new “Be On TV” seats?: image via Darren Rovell @darrenrovell, 19 February 2018

LeBron’s sneakers tonight (Photo by @natlyphoto): image via Darren Rovell @darrenrovell, 19 February 2018

All-Star Weekend: LeBron James (6’8”) and Kevin Hart (5’4”): image via Darren Rovell @darrenrovell, 18 February 2018

Odell at All-Star game with a Supreme man purse.: image via Darren Rovell @darrenrovell, 19 February 2018

Players faces during Fergie’s rendition of the National Anthem...: image via Darren Rovell @darrenrovell, 19 February 2018

My laptop froze at this exact moment #NBAAllStar2018 #Fergie: image via Darren Rovell @darrenrovell, 19 February 2018

Players faces during Fergie’s rendition of the National Anthem...: image via Darren Rovell @darrenrovell, 19 February 2018

The winning NBA All-Star team will get $100,000 this year, while the losers will get $25,000. The difference is supposed to motivate game to be more competitive. Only one starter (Joel Embiid) makes less than $100,000 per regular season game ($74,390).: image via Darren Rovell @darrenrovell, 19 February 2018

Team LeBron starters outearn Team Stephen starters, in salary, by more than $10 million.: image via Darren Rovell @darrenrovell, 19 February 2018

A member of the Unidos da Tijuca samba school performs on a float during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 12, 2018.: photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP, 12 February 2018

Members from the Beija Flor samba school portray drug traffickers during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. Brazil's most famous city has long struggled with violence, particularly in the hundreds of slums controlled by drug traffickers, with criminal assaults and increasing shootouts between drug traffickers and police.: photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP, 13 February 2018

A farmer inspects the remains of a missile, which according to the Lebanon national news agency is part of a Syrian air defense missile targeting an Israeli warplane, in Hasbani village, southwest Lebanon, on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018. Lebanon is protesting Israel's use of its airspace to target Syria, saying it will complain to the U.N. Security Council.: photo by AP, 10 February 2018

#Syria Toll in Syria bombardment of rebel enclave rises to 44 A man carries a child injured in government bombing in the rebel-held town of Hamouria, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta. Photo @abdfree2: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 18 February 2018

#Hamouria 19 Feb 2019: image via Abdulmonam Eassa @abdfree2, 19 February 2018

Smoke rises from buildings following bombardment on Kafr Batna, in the rebel-held #EasternGhouta. Heavy Syrian bombardment killed dozens of civilians in rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, as regime forces appeared to prepare for an imminent ground assault / Photo @amer_almohibany/AFP: image via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany, 19 February 2018

104 people have been killed by the bombing of the #Assad regime and Russia on the #EasternGhouta since the morning so far 1st day of escalation on #EasternGhouta - #Syria: image via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany, 19 February 2018

Until now, we can't sleep, Russian warplanes did not stop, they are bombing everything. No one is standing next to us in this besieged area.: tweet via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany, 19 February 2018

My message to all lovers and friends: Whoever had a dark face for me would forgive me for it. Whoever has once been wronged intentionally or unintentionally, I ask him to forgive me God has delivered us many times today from the air raids Besieged #EasternGhouta: image via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany, 19 February 2018

#EasternGhouta Al=Ghouta-Sharqiya 7 martyrs, including 5 children from one family, were killed in the attack on the town. Warplanes and rocket launchers do not subside.: image via Amer almohibany @amer_almohibany, 19 February 2018

Are these the new “Be On TV” seats?: image via Darren Rovell @darrenrovell, 19 February 2018

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada deliver a gold medal-winning performance in the ice dance on Day 11 at #Pyeongchang2018: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 19 February 2018

Marines drink cobra blood in Thailand as part of Cobra Gold, Asia's largest annual multilateral military exercise Photo @Athit_P: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 19 February 2018

Do you #lovecurling? A Canada's fan arrives undressed at the #Pyeongchang2018 Curling Center for the men's round robin session between the US and Canada. Photo Wang Zhao: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 19 February 2018

#sunset behind the rebel-held besieged town of Harasta, in the Eastern Ghouta region. Photo amer_almohibany: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 12 February 2018

Open Arms: Joseph Ceravolo: Hand Gun

Barber and Coin, Guns and Ammo, Beaverton, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 5 February 2014

Joseph Ceravolo: Hand Gun

When I was a child
I thought a handgun in a holster
and the lead colored bullets on the belt
was one of the most beautiful things
made by man.
Of course at that time
I didn't consciously know
of the phallic significance or symbol,
but it doesn't really matter.
It's not the object now
but the feeling that accompanied,
which still remains and comes back,
but not for guns and bullets
but for eternity.
It must be the way Sumerians
felt for their Gilgamesh
and Jews for David
and Egyptians for Pharaoh
and anyone for heroes,
a hope of eternity
for ever and ever new.
A chance not for the object
but for the soul alone,
if that be possible.
But it's too easy
to love life too much
and all is gone away, alas,
like a shot from
the gun of childhood.

When I was a child
I thought of eternity.

Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988): Hand Gun, 24 October 1986, from Collected Poems, 2012