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My friend Joyce planned a Sunday afternoon service
leading up to a reunion of local SOAW people where
we can all share discernment, pictures, thoughts,
etc.
One thing I must remark about. There were four
large pictures to my right leaned up against all
the stained glass windows. Front to back it went,
Denise, Cynthia, Carole, and Addie Mae. Along the
left it was Ita, Sr. Dorothy, Maura and Jean.
Wow!
OK, I knew most of this in my head all along,
but seeing them all lined up like that hit me on
many new levels all at once. Wow. Denise McNair,
Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae
Collins were blown up in the 16th Street Baptist
church. Ita Ford, Sr. Dorothy Kazel, Sr. Maura
Clarke and Jean Donovan were raped and murdered
in El Salvador.
I wonder what differences there are between the
Klan and SOA graduates???
GROUND HOGGISH DAY
7:44 am, 9jan03. Thursday.
My own personal "ground hog day"
Hooray!!! Spring is here.
Sorta.
This is that first day of the year when I wake up
at 6, 7 or 8am and DON'T try to, want to or insist
upon going back to sleep until 8, 10 or 12.
I could either jump right up or do my grampa's
old trick of staring straight up at the ceiling or
sky for 5 or 10 minutes preparing to start my day.
I call this "Ground Hoggish" day. This can hit
anywhere from January to May and I can guage my
entire upcoming year by it.
Yup, I'm going to have a splendid year, despite
you, George, OR YOUR FATHER H WALKER BUSH..
You and your damned fascism ring.
DEPART MENT: Store Blues
(CON'T From 340)
A story in three parts.
1) ati 340
2) ati 341
3) ati 342
"Let's try a 38 short, the man suggested. Polite I smiled
and waited for the magic to happen. I never wore that suit
to other proms, but it went with me to a quite a few of the
obligatory homecomings, and years later I used the vest in
three different rock and roll bands as part of my "duds."
I thought of all these things on my way home from Caldor
that day. This story's been edited three times now. One
publisher suggested I remove from here that I cried all
the way home from Caldors once more, but a more sublime
memorial kind of cry -- while pondering all these things.
It wasn't published with that change, and it was actually
published two other places, once without it, once with.
I waited til now to recycle it into my weekly 'zine
because I wanted to wait and see if its part of the
"american dream" was really dead, and/or would remain
dead, and sure enough not only is it dead as a doornail
as we go into the worst last week of the year in three
decades, but it's kind of zombified like the walking dead.
38short. I think I'm a 42reg and sometimes a 42short
now. We get wider, not taller when we get old, don't we?
But I almost wouldn't know. The only reasons I'll wear
blazers these days are when I'm playing classical guitar
and perhaps when I'm addressing a judge. Yeah, I put on
my best dumpster-dived suit, and let-me-tell-you, I've
got a few of them. Good lookers too. Amazing what you
find the day after Christmas, and the day after each
final exam, isn't it??? My favorite blazer these days
is actually a tux I bought for $15 at a St Vinneys.
So as I write this new ending to this very old tale
of shame and degredation, greed and avarice, loathe
and graft, honest hard work, and getting almost nowhere,
I ponder all these things minus the tears and begin to
think I'm just a little jaded. We all deserve this
economic down-tic don't we? Is this what we get for
building phases I and II at the end of the Clinton
Administration, and continuing on to phase II's and
III's ignoring all the indicators? Isn't this what we
get for letting both Gore AND Bush fool us into thinking
"Happy Days Are Here Again?" Aren't we clear on how
violent each of our comfort(s) at the expense of so
many thousands of others' suffering(s)?
We're not?
Uh oh.
Maybe I SHOULD go into detailing my under-table
Elks Club job when I was 15 afterall. Yeah, sure.
What have I got to lose except my ability to land
a job at a place like ClearChannel, 3Com, Hooters,
Verio or one of the State Lotteries, right?
So shortly after turning 15 I really wanted more
in life than what mowing lawns, and slinging papers
could get me. I was already doing both. Trust me,
those years, that just wasn't enough. A teenager
needs things... and lots of them. So my dad had a
friend with an ever-renewable contract doing foods
at an Elks Club. Totally on the Hush-Hush. The QT.
Like Skull&Bones or something! I would be paid
double the minimum wage, but cash, so it just may
have been the most I've ever made in my life until
5 or 6 years ago. At least the most per hour, right?
So I washed dishes, set tables, flirted with waitresses
who were much too old for me, and drank way too many
Long Island Ice Teas at the end of each shift, for
free.
What did I learn there? Way too much. You learn
a lot in the world while cheating and letting others
cheat through you.
(To Be CON'T In 342)
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hey hey hey,
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a BROADSIDE
New verse to add
To an old song
One a these days
And it won't be long
You gonna see
Whatcha doin' is wrong
Cause Pharaoah's army
God drownded
Oh Mary
Dontcha weep
/I ' D R A T H E R/
/B E R E A D I N G /
/ A C T I V I S T /
/T I M E S , I N C /
We end with a poetical jaunt:
DayHealthWorkChildFare
a haiku'ish
Even people she don't know
Battle fiercely on her behalf
That's how it's supposed to be
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Soon probably another prisoner of conscience.
"How can I keep from singing."
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