Irwin Barbe/#2

Because when you were seventeen

didn’t you ever want to create something beautiful and pure

just so that one day you could set it on fire

and then watch the city light up as it burned? 

didn’t you want to do that every day of your life?

nothing should be forever.

Bands should do one single and then split-up,

fanzines finish after one flawless issue,

lovers leave in the rain at 5am 

and never be seen again

habit and fear of change are the worst reasons for ever doing anything.

We want to burn in bright colours and go pop,

to be giddy, impulsive and silly,

to kiss people in new places – 

exquisitely – and dare to tear things apart.

The first act of revolution is destruction 

and the first thing to destroy is the past.

Scary

like falling in love

it reminds us we’re alive.

(Irwin Barbe Photography)