ozymandius (2023) (Patreon)

I met a traveller from an antique land who said there was a 747 with waterslides coming from the cargo doors parked on top of a building... round the decay of that colossal plane, boundless and bare, the lone and level asphalt stretches far away.

America is full of weird cultural detritus we've discarded as we've gotten bored with our old toys and Upgraded, continually, forever; we live in an empire built in model years. This is pretty far up the list of things to see abandoned, however.

This is the Wings & Waves complex at the Evergreen Aviation Museum I've posted about previously. It's a waterpark complex whose centerpiece is a decommissioned 747. It's been closed for ages, so the parking lot and building is completely empty and it sits there like a strange monument to CIA money and hubris.