Do you even know how close it's come this past eight years??????????
How close to what? A terrorist attack?
War?
Well we were kept safe for eight years, if you start counting from September 12 2001. They say Bush done a heckuva good job protecting us. Do you believe that?
Do you ever think about how close death is? Nothing sexy, just plain old mundane day-to-day death? Do you ever think about how many close calls you have everyday?
I am a coward, my mortuary bill is huge, I owe for nine hundred and sixty five deaths so far.
I think about traffic accidents, I try to keep my mind on my driving. I have seen my death many times at a four way stop sign that I sail through with out looking, or a red light I run through carelessness.
I imagine the impact the twisting tearing metal, the searing pain, and the smell of gasoline. I have had nightmares about children running in front of my truck. I don't see them because they are so small; all I can do is wake up before I run over one of them.
I live no more than a football field length from the train tracks. I love to watch those tankers go by. Chlorine and Bromine. Nasty stuff. I think about how easy it would be to put a sticky bomb on them. I think about being in my bed when the greenish yellow fog rolls in.
We got the border 150 miles from here and there is a war going on it.
All those drugs coming across what else is coming in? But I keep hearing Bush kept us safe for eight years. I am very grateful.
Not sure I see your point Hester.
But that is okay.
I am not much of a writer. I know that. I am just compulsive about it. I have no idea what you think I am saying here. You must see it better than me. I have some sort of aphasia maybe. I just write this stuff you can't expect me to read it too, can you?
I am the bear in the old Pogo comic strip, the one that could write but not read.
But mostly I worry about Obama's death. I never thought he would get elected that is how much faith I have left.
Now I pray for his safety. White folks seem to have a great fascination with JFK murder conspiracy theories, thousands of books written about it, movies millions of words. White folks don't spend much time thinking about who really killed MLK and why. It is all cut and dried for white folks. But I wonder if it had any thing to do with MLK coming out against the Vietnam war. No I have not seen the Oliver Stone movie JFK. I am paranoid on my own; don't need any HO Wood stories to stimulate me.
I think about what Obama is up against and just how much he will be allowed to change.
They say the first four or five years of a child's life shape his personality. I grew up among loving adults and one crazy father. There was a war going on, family members were disappearing into gruesome deaths, I knew none of this, I just picked up on the fear as we sat in our front room and listened to the news in Yiddish and saw the fear in their faces. And every Israeli soldier takes the oath at Masada I have heard.
Well I suppose I have pontificated enough for one morning. I was thinking about becoming a priest. Might as well be one after living that life for 29 years. The Magician of Lublin got nothing on me. I wish I was stoned and "a pilgrim and a prophet" just go round me Hester
I think about the children that are about 13 or 14 years old now. How many times did they see the pictures of the bodies falling from the world trade center when they were little kids? I have no idea what the world looks like to them.
I think about j and her kids, the ones she teaches, how many times have they heard those sirens go off.
I think I think I think
When I should be drinking.
Love peace and taco grease.
I am done with this puppet I think
As far as I am concerned the war is over
it is peace time
and my peace dividend check is in the mail.
I think could use a small vacation, I might go to Gaza lay on the beach and soak up some rays.
I sure hope I have not offended god or anyone else.
just go round me
ignore me
