cat quickskated into the parking lot in a matte charcoal two-door TwoGrand        

couldntve been much later

Mazda 323 Protégé

on flatblack rims

and parked   diagonally

across two spaces

                               likely  he surmised  to protect it from the venal and jealous

who  with their doors  might assail its finish and fine sidepanel and door sculpturings

but none of this abruptness caught his eye quicker

                                                                                           than the block letters 

inelegantly pasted to the rear windshield

lavishly interrupting the drivers vision through his rearview mirror 

                                                                                                           but then 

what were the doormounted sideview mirrors for

                                                                                              the block letters

conveyed the drivers obvious  keen  passion    who  himself  may have had ten years 

on his vehicle

                                                                                          it was his experience

such full-formed ideology isnt tested and arrived at  NO   its bred   imparted   doctrine

but this part of the country had a hard-on for doctrine    its early-settler old-familys cash 

sustained and backed it up   

                                             he hated to say it   but the early Klan black-and-white silents 

their children at their knees  had nothing on this contingency

   

irregularly spaced                                                                                                           it read

L I B E R A L I S M   I S  A

M E N T A L   D I S O R D E R

and being liberal 
he was more than willing to hear the drivers side of the argument . . . at least he didnt misspell anything . . . he caught him at his bumper as the driver hurried                                       
and in his haste-makes-waste the driver fumbled his limegreen coloured gym shoes and black leather lifting gloves                                                                                                                        

                                                         his tight black dago-T muscle shirt   of course 
hid the descending array of tats which decorated his chest and shoulders

                                                                                                            he was confident 
when the driver walked past him later hed see their complements on the back of his neck 
and traps 
if the white brother was anything
he was committed
                                                                                                        

--   Hey  he said stepping before the drivers stumbling  and irritation  --   Mental disorder

looking up from his shoes
which threw a quiet fresh mint hue up on his tatted heavy forearm  confused  he said           
--   Wha

he motioned with his thumb up to the rear window  --   Mental disorder  Liberals 

to be fair  looking from the inside the Mazda through the rearview mirror
itd be backwards  and difficult to read 

though  he hated spoiling a good joke  timing  everything about humor is its timing 
too soon  like mussin up a dates skirt
too late  and sumptinelse slips irreverently into the mix and distracts from the overt or 
punchline 
he always looked for some intellectual bubbling  effervescence  coming from inside his adversaries  like that beggin to spray from a vigorouslyshaken  swollen  can of warm soda pop                                                                                                                                            

--   Men Tal  Dis Or Der

good  sensational                                                                                                                             from the look on his face he might have had some Morse Code training  played a bit on 
shortwave radio
nay 
thatd be a reach   unfortunate 
he had it all buttered up  rarin to go       dotdotdashdot dashdashdash dotdotdot 
F O S  lost cause                                             

--   Whaovit

--   Evidently youre not liberal  though it appears you have a knack for looking straight through things
  

--   Yah

--   So what do you call yourself  Whats your alignment  Do I remark to your shabbily posted liberal as if it were a noun or an adjective  Do we affect their antonyms or synonyms . . . Or can we agree with Ambrose Bierce  from his Devils Dictionary  and call you conservative  the noun
‘A stateman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, (myself) who wishes to replace them with others.’                                                           

                                                                                               --   Or am I broadminded
and you narrowminded . . . Or do I call upon a favorite of mine  the late 14^th Century   
Old French  meaning ‘befitting free men  noble and generous’  or the Latin  liberalis   
literally  ‘pertaining to a free man’
Keepin in mind all of this is strictly in light of your assessed   Men Tal Dis Or Der
If we were to turn the light around onto you  perhaps  a professed conservative  although you havent said  I could say I have a bumper sticker on my car that reads 
I dont of course

Conservatism is a Menial Order

And by menial  we can say it together if you like  as an adjective  ‘lowly and sometimes degrading  servile  submissive’  as a noun  ‘a domestic servant  a servile person’

he saw the bull rush coming     what was the saying  patriotism  perverse patriotism  or 

violence  is the last refuge of a scoundrel

                                                                       a flush of blood crowned his tatted and 

clean shaven skull

it would be

he had spent a lot of money on their design and ink

no  he wouldnt want to cover that up 

                                                                                                    

as the bent over driver began his lunge
he drove his knee up into his nose
and having had his nose broken a couple of times

                                                                          pain  eyes fill with tears  disorientation

its a bit overwhelming                                                                                                                

                                       he sidestepped him  the driver on all fours  and then drove his knee 
into the side of his bowed head

then walked away
leaving him in the gym parking lot on his belly off the bumper of his matte TwoGrand
Mazda 323 Protégé
flatblack rims                                                                                                                                                               and contemptuous block lettered devotion

2245,  Friday,  27  6. 14