Our Man in Europe/now Belize, Dave Delacroix (on facebook: David Michael Oxley): "A brief History of the SELFIE!"

Our Man in Europe/now Belize, Dave Delacroix: "A brief history of the SELFIE!"

...a brief history of the "Selfie", a brief history of u know who (U. R)., whose genetic double helix throughout millennia, from Madonna wooden/ivory/stone carving, CAVE PAINTINGS, thru Egyptian-hieroglyphics to inter-net influences, old family portraits on mansion walls, fading b/w Fotos on the piano or mantal, super-8 videos, a Buick backdrop, weddings, holiday snaps, kids riding beach donkeys, a candle-lit birthday.

...a brief history, the "Selfie", a nano-twinkle in the universal eye, a bunch of planets wildly dancing roud a star, the suns velocity, zooming18 zillion thousand miles (per hour?) in the heavens, we know not why, on our own zodiac mothership, EARTH, too busy pissing on our own stile.

A brief history of our "Selfie"; "Take my Selfie Foto, sweetie-pie!" I walk backwards/fall off the cliff!? And those - drama - last moments, robbing the "7-11"/some local all-night store. A Smart Phone moment, videoed dead on the parking lot - probably-corpse foto angle sideways - with inexpensive stolen goods surround like a Desperadoes rosary? Cops holster their guns.

A brief UNCTION of the "Selfie", a visual gravestone, a testament to your spirits past, now only in profile, an Egyptian-hieroglyphic, a cat's paw print upon a wall, entombed & out of sight, perhaps forever more. Yet your "Selfie" perhaps stays in your mind, that flake sense of: "immortality" and so beguile as the ROAR of HUMANITY claws & bleaches your "Selfie" Post.

c.2025. Dave Delacroix.