works by william pham, 2005-present

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100x450 - 09 - i'm crazy and i will die

Every night I tie blue tissue paper around the standing gas lamp outside my house and every morning someone tears it down. And then I tie blue tissue paper around the standing gas lamp again and then someone tears it down again. My neighbors think I'm crazy, which I know because when I sit on the grass and press my ear against their dining room window, I can hear them talking about how crazy I am.

"You know the guy living next-door? He's crazy."

"Definitely."

I should tell them about my acute lymphocytic leukemia and how I'm going to die.

copyright (c) 2007 by william pham

photo credit (c) 2006 natalie huynh