Astral Oil, Global Family

Jonathan Durham and Rindon Johnson

June 30 - August 6

Java Project, 
252 Java Street Brooklyn, NY

Open Sundays 1 - 6pm 
or by appointment (info@sorry.land)

Noon, October 5th, 1950. A reinforced concrete sewer exploded in Greenpoint, blowing manhole covers three stories high, shattering windows, injuring three persons, and ripping open a ten foot section of pavement at the intersection of Manhattan Ave and Huron Street. Gasoline leaking from at least one of the area’s many oil refineries had seeped into the city’s plumbing and ignited. Oil continued to leak for three more decades, until a Coast Guard helicopter flying over Newtown Creek noticed an oil slick flowing out of a bulkhead near Meeker Avenue.

Captain Fleischell: 
                              A benzene rose 
                Wheezing, watery, stretching out 
                Soap-crete, sprawling rainbow, reporting 
                from above 
A wake of worse-than-rot 
Blight, bluntly speaking, poison  

Petro-Chemical Association: 
              No admissions, son. 
              Is it better to be inflicted and convalescing 
              Or sick to death without knowing it? 
              Symptoms? Sediment drag vapors, vacuum enhanced recovery, or 
              swallow down bile at business meetings? 
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