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 14th
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
