Site Masthead: Nick's Place in non-serif white text superimposed over a bright orange high contrast tinted photograph of a brick wall taken in an extreme close up. The brick is photographed with the long continuous lines of grout running vertically. The image is displayed upside-down so the disappearing point for the grout is below the image.

Nick's Place

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Metaphor

Paradise

Paradise they call it

Its an island in the ocean

Smaller than a coin

I sit upon a lonely rock

And then prepare to dine

The most lucious, lavish foods

That are as pleasing to the smell as a Southern Bell

As I look around as far as I can see

The landscape looks like a forbidden fruit

The sky is a starry mass

On the table is a great living bass

And as I look around

The scene begins to fade

Into a vast haze

Then the sandpaper desert arrives

And I see a coin sized oasis

-Nicholas Barnard