echo

the stripmalls exist because the freeways exist. before the freeways and the super highways you had to drive through every little town all across the country and there were all sorts of little family owned shops that were different from city to city, surviving on tourism and travellers.

since the freeways came those shops closed because people mostly bypassed whatever little towns they were in, until the only shops that could survive were wallmarts and kfc's that provided people driving quickly from one pointless place to another pointless place the same exact thing they got at home no matter where they went.

and in towns where the kmarts and outlets couldn't even survive there are ghosts towns cause all the jobs left and anyway without a grocery store you don't have much of a town.

i see green and gray and red and brown, and the beautiful dark blue of a river.