11.4.19


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          intact
                    no worse for wear at least not that Id admit

whassup
          yakeep yer nose clean

1852, Thursday,  11  4. 19




                                 he was clinging to restlesssleep dreaming to catch a sliver a handful of something to take ahold of and bring out

                             then suddenlybestowed onesigh bellycramp vague  quiet   envelopingone then several coils of his brain he woke
What was that

onesigh bellycramp

Onesigh bellycramp


it didnt repeat itself



whawas he to do with THAT 
                              certainly something to have emerged   onesigh bellycramp                           

his bowels or bladder didnt waken him

he remembered his dreaming self hanging around  like a kid on a street corner waiting for buddies  


his friends were always a hoot

walking around town they came across corners that teemed with clowns miscreants

What’s a miscreant?

Not desirable Wannabe bad boys Bobby

How do you know that?

Miscreant I read a lot

Yah one sniped If he wasn’t hangin with us he’d be reading; he’s got paperback in his back pocket.

You got a book in your back pocket? Bobby asked

Slaughterhouse-Five  Vonnegut  Billy Pilgrim

An anti-war novel.

Its a humane novel a moral novel  I dont believe ya buy into Nam Jeff

No.

Though yer father does

He was a Marine; what do you expect?

I expect he fought in the South Pacific and Korea so his childrennot that he was thinking that far ahead wouldnt have to fight in trumpedup wars to make money for fat cats

If Im drafted Im not going

You’d rather go to jail?

I side with Ali  “Man, I aint got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.  Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?”


You memorize that?

I did You find a hole in his logic

I agree with, Joe said Bobby

Jeff turned to Bobby Your polio fixed you 4-F, you aren’t sweating the draft.

And neither am I  You sweatin Jeff

My brother went into the Coast Guard.

You like me like Bobby like your brother white  Coast Guards obviously an option But I aint military materialI know that I dont like anyone tellin me what to dolet alone not answering my questions why I should do it Im not into blind faith religion or orders


Well . . hope you don’t go low in the draft lottery.

I expect to Karma

You expect to?

Definitely We should get together with the guys on draft nighthave whisky beers pizza twenty bucks apiece in a pot  first birthday turned gets the pot

I’d pay twenty bucks to see you become a draft dodger.

Money well spent  Would help afford me a road trip

You’re fucked up, man. 

No  Whafucks me up is seeing a human being turned into ground beef or a flaming torch  Remember Thich Quang Duc
God bless you.
Funny

No.

Thich Quanf Duc Buddhist monk Immolated himself to fight all forms of oppression  I didnt need to see that on televisionanymore than I needed to see General Nguyen Ngoc Loan execute Vietcong suspect Nguyen Van Lemshoot him in the head on a street in Saigon then walk over to reporters to tell them “These guys kill a lot of our people, and I think Buddha will forgive me.”    

Or anymore than the photograph of Phan Thi Kim Phuc the Napalm girl

You know their names?  What the fuck.

I know their namesI remember what they suffered virtually at our hands  by Americas wha  will   I aint being part of that legacy any more than I hafta assume as being an American


You know their names.

I know their namesremember their names  probably because I was a paperboy who read the papers while walking my routes


You'll go to jail.

Not if I and every draftee refuses to enter the military Think of the optics of every eighteen year oldour generation put in jail

Optics. Vonnegut?

Vonnegut  Reading   Thinking




onesigh bellycramp
 
thinking about it 
                   a bell being rung to pay strict attention to 

otherwise hed nobodyelse  suffer the consequences of ignoring it


early Thursday morning before 0800,  4  4. 19
1253,  Reggae Friday,  5  4. 19



smegma


the viscous glue cementingsemening Israeli notions of apartheid has formed a miserable foul crust smegma

Netanyahoo stinks
                    or rather a stinking Netanyahoo  the Jews (those Jews who voted for him) are as unfortunate as the racists and white Nationalists who support Drumpf