Barren, unforgiving: fit only for past heroes & today's safely intrepid, No visitors, merely sanctioned trespassers. Ocassionally, a poking sun turns all to riock star brilliant contrasting colors & textures.

Morning awoke to the muffled chatter of amateur citizen street guards; my high-tension self-guided walking tour until 3 PM curfew midst riot's debris. Then, night's  Revolution: guns, bombs, & fighter planes..