paraAmerica
Rolls off the tongue like silkdon it huh
perhaps he ought to feel ashamed by
thinking it
butthen
he was never ashamed of the truth
it came to possess him as he drove
beside one of the sea to shining seas
the
Pacific specifically
the stretch of 101 north of Santa Barbara
he had lifted his eyes to the
rearview mirror to the noise of knobby
offroad tires coming up fast behind him seventythree miles an hour isnt
fast enough
offroad tires on the highway
amused him a bent functionality not particularly bright
however
it wasnt his wallet which in itself also humoured him he didnt carry a wallet an people afforded themselves
extraordinary things all the time
it was a matte desert camo-painted Toyota pickup
accelerating up on him it crossed
into the passing lane without signaling just off his bumper
maybe the driver thought he was
Mad Max
he had to arrest an urge to hit
his brakesforcing the driver to swerve on knobby tires he wondered how that might
work out
arrested
as the pickup sped loudly by him
he saw the driver had removed the vehicles doors the driver wore matching camo pants and
a sandcoloured tshirt
he was either a civilian mockedup
or a GI mockedup civilian
no sooner had the marvelous
ensemble passed him it crossed sharply in front of himperilously close
wisely he touched his brakescreated
a comfortable space the driver had probably caught him raised his ridiculeeyebrow
reason why he didnt play
poker
the driver didnt raise his eyes
to his rearview mirror either he was too cool
or oblivious but after all he was trying to live in the drivers world
Excuse me all to hell
crossing as close as it did he saw mounted in a cage on its fanny beside a knobby spare tire two camoed five-gallon
gas tanks
What crap he thought
that cinched it
nutted him up
inviting him to cumblow a
gasket
America
is paraAmerica
quietly hemorrhaging blatantly heroworshipping
narcissistic
quasiNationalistic
phony militaristic
paramilitaristic
parasitic
worse
paraHuman
1045, Sunday,
10 9. 19
1111, Thursday,
14 11. 19
The Sound Skeletons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S_Ia24fjg4
