Throw-up Tuesday.

Here’s a throwback. I remember when I first moved up here some twenty years ago that if you needed underwear, you had to drive to St J to buy them. Then, a few years later, Wal-Mart came to town and everything you ever wanted was ten minutes away.  And then, ten years after that, came the internet and Amazon. Now I can buy practically anything I want and not leave my house. And today, some time after all these changes, I can socialize on the internet, piss people off, and not even leave my house. Progress is grand. I wonder what’s next.

My father Walter Sr. fought in WW2. He fought in North Africa, Sicily, the Middle East, and he was there, fighting on D-day. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes. And then, when he was done with all of that (yes that’s right, I’m bragging on my dad, which he would hate by the way) he went to the Pacific theater. He served in every single year of the war.

 He didn’t like to talk about the war at all, but the one thing he did impress on me was the fact that he didn’t fight for all those years for me, or anyone else, to disparage another human being. You never, and I’m going to say these offensive words, you never, ever used the words chink, nigger, spic, kike or anything like them while he was around because, he said, that was the whole point of defeating the fascists, the Nazis, in the first place. Now if my father had to go vote, pay his taxes or go to work every day and walk past a Nazi flag, he would be, well I can’t even describe how pissed he would be. Now imagine if you were a Jew or a Roma having to do the same. You all know what I’m getting at.

Now I’m not even going to get into the fact that this particular style of the Confederate flag was brought out as a big fuck you in response to civil rights legislation and the dismantling of Jim Crow, that’s beside the point. The point is take the flag down, its offensive and has been for years. Who cares about their racist, treasonous heritage. Their heritage sucks. Fuck them, and the horse they rode in on.

For Now

The last breath you took

was my breath too.

The last embrace

the last hand

the last look-

all that we held

all that was ours, for so long

will be ours to have

again and again

between the breaths

I take for you.

Untitled dreariness

I know that road you're on
twisting turning hills and hollows
the moon hides in the clouds
and when the moon comes out, brightly
it splatters glimpses
just for an instance, no more
and you can see with terror
all the clarity
that the daylight will bring

Hands

Imagine I had hands;
not smooth or rough
not large or small
...just enough
at my sides for sure
out in front to see
nothing in my hands
just what time brings
and imagine theses hands
were yours to cusp
to hold the patience
that plain hands bring

Country Song

When will the sunshine
cast off the shallow
i see your breath
even in shadow

plots you throw out
that I don't follow
tune's easy to hum
words harder to follow

those oil slicked roads
keep that rubber on down
it would probably help
if there wasn't a crowd

placing my bets
on my amazon wish list
can't hit the buy now
what doesn't exist

when you finally leave
take it with you, please
your complimentary smile
with your rotten back teeth

This is the new battleground. Water is the last thing in this world that is free, and they want you to pay for it. This sociopath , and the people like him, will have more accumulated wealth than you or I combined will ever have in ten lifetimes. And they want more of it. They don't give two shits about you or your family, your friends or anyone else who has less wealth than they do. They have no problem giving a tiny percentage of their money away to feed their egos, but if you ask them for more, they call you a socialist or even "worse", a communist.

They sell you money to buy a house, take that money they just happily took from you, and tank the economy selling a circle jerk of derivatives making billions of dollars. And guess what? They are not done yet. They now want to take your house back because you can't afford it in an economy that they themselves just fucked up and then looted. How can they fucking lose?

They don't want you planting your own food because they don't make money from you doing that. They don't want you to know what's in the food that they do sell you, because you wont buy it. They want you to buy oil to heat your house and to run your car. They can't sell you the sun.They don't want you to organize into a union because it hurts the "free" market, the free market that they control and that they organize.

They are happy that you have just enough "money" to keep you in debt, so that you can buy more and more of their crap. Said crap being manufactured by some poor bastard (actually probably a woman) in some shit-hole-sweat-shop in India or Honduras.

They prop up the media with money and with arguments about guns, race and violence. They feed the talking heads with bullshit and you get shit on. They're not coming for you guns.Their coming for your money, your food, your shelter, and now your water.

And they don't give a fuck about you.



/rant...(for all you geeks out there)