Androids.Boxers.Rambles&TenderloinFire
After struggling to reach an Inspiration, after going through the motions of my usual process to either be inspired or to hope to have inspiration find me, neither happened…No 1Subject, 1Topic or 1Question set my Loins afire…So, I thought I would go exploring, maybe just hopping in, turning the key, jamming it into 1stgear, smashing the accelerator & start driving across the topography of my Imagination…
Without a Destination, like an unproven ConceptCar stretching the integrity of its own experimental engineering, out over the endless Hills between Napa & SonomaValley or over the sharp angles of the ContinentalDivide, or toward the hazy horizon, into the tropical pastel sunsets of the flat Florida highways…Taking it all in, collecting Images of an AmericanCountryside that reminds my Faculties, re-informs my sensibilities of the expansive Beauty that seems to infinitely unfold in all Directions, the symphonic rapture of the floral, botanical & geological diversity & assimilation, the Harmony that rolls out over TheEarth’s skin like an interactive HieronymousBosch painting, that NaturalOrder I often vaguely & mystically refer, the deepbreathed soulful cleansing & recalibration of a CityBoy’s heart & relationships...So I shift from 3rd down to 2nd, & digress…& divest my investment, with every step forward toward the Incandescent…
DirtCity aka the GreatTreadmill, has me deep in a snooze, snoring out an apathetic hopeless nasally gurgle, GeorgieTheFool & all his Folly, has simply exhausted my IntellectualStamina, his capacity for Stupidity & Thoughtlessness has far exceeded my capacity to keep up, comment or critique, so when I read about all his sordid moves, I can only turn ThePage or scroll past or turn TheChannel or look down at my navel & move my Head side to side, as if I am watching a TennisMatch in my lap…So things that would, only 2years ago, consume Me, do not anymore…Events like the Pentagon finally releasing the 81page LegalMemo drafted by Bush footsoldier, administration attorney & all around eggsucking dog JohnYoo, inside the 4Corners of these 81pages therein proffers & outlines a LegalCover for Bush & Vader, a LegalCover that freed Them both up, unbuckling themselves from the tethers of Morality, releasing themselves from off the Hooks of the Constitution…On March14th.2003, when this LegalMemo hit the OvalOffice desk, it provided for the unsophisticated sensibilities of a TexasHalfwit & a mumbling Android from Wyoming, the legal elbow room to coolly bend down, lace up their Sh*tkickers & commence the Constitutional trounce & trample…Up & down the sacrosanct backbone of our once progressive & communal Country, up & down ThePreamble, the Articles of Power, the Bill of Rights & subsequent 17Amendments, this LegalDocument allowed these 2 yellowbellied DraftDodgers the occasion to coolly unzip their patriotic trousers, whip out there d*cks, to piss on our InternationalTreaties & Agreements with TheWorld, LegalCover for Bush & Vader to camp out under, issuing orders of Torture, Rendition & Surveillance…Concepts found in & exercised by most FascistDictatorships spanning the Globe…These kneejerk, blunt, unilateral dictatorial Reactions have briskly bled Us out of decades, centuries of hardboiled, plodding, methodical, well-earned national Credibility & Respect…LegalCover that is a wrongheaded litany of convoluted circumventions & rationale, labyrinthian legal defenses for GeorgieTheFool to fold in half & stick in his inside SuitJacket pocket, then turning to his FootSoldiers & authorizing the waterboarded, headslapping interrogation of anyone He may select…TheRapidLoss of the MoralHighGround will prove to be our most serious problem of foreign & domestic Policy in the Years upon Our doorstep, in TheFallout that will ensue, TheAftermath, once TheDope leaves Office & runs for other “Cover” inside a bombproof ranch in the TexasWoods…
Or revelations of how ModernPoliticians, when running for Office of a local or national kind, inevitably bilk, scam & steal from their own Campaign coffers…This (lawful, I must note) Scheme starts by TheCandidate placing their FamilyMembers in high places of their “CampaignStaff”, a Staff that receives a substantial salary for their modest effort in a long campaign cycle, in turn skimming 10’s, 100’s of Thousands of Dollars from the public Donations to the respective Campaign, diverting it into the bank accounts of their very own Wives, Daughters, Uncles, Nephews & SonInLaws…To call some of these Hustlers out, some of the more severe Offenders:
►DemocraticSenator from California, BarbaraBoxer, paid her son Douglas $320,409.17 in campaign donations through his company Douglas Boxer & Associates from 2001 to 2006. Douglas Boxer is a lawyer & a 10Year veteran of her political team.
►RepublicanSenator from Wyoming, MikeEnzi, paid his daughter-in-law DanielleEnzi $306,718.18 from his campaign accounts over the same period. She was a fundraiser before she married into the Enzi family.
►RepublicanSenator from Kentucky, JimBunning, paid his daughter Amy Towles $138,933.37 over 6Years. Bunning's office said it was for campaign accounting…
& TheRats run TheRace…
I would be remiss if I didn’t include a blurb about our 3rdBranch of Government, about the JudicialSystem getting it right, this time, when the 3rdCircuitCourt of Appeals a couple weeks ago issued a Decision in favor of former BlackPanther & AntiEstablishment CultClassic MumiaAbuJamal, ordering a new penalty hearing or sentencing hearing for the Man, TheCourt citing clear racial biases by the Judge & Prosecuters in his original Trial of 1982 in Philadelphia…As the Chant goes,”Free MumiaAbuJamal ! Free Em’ All !...Free MumiaAbuJamal ! Free Em’ All !”
Or even the most recent & dramatic Event of the FoolAdministration changing the WhiteHouse’s official position on GlobalWarming & carbon & greenhouse gas emission capping…This is notable, because this particular WhiteHouse only flips on an official position, especially on an Issue as large as this, ONLY when there is literally nowhere else to go…ONLY when the TheDope’s InnerCircle finally realizes they are SO wrong, SO out of step with Reality, when they realize not even a flimsy legal branch written by JohnYoo is available to grab hold, does the WhiteHouse do this…So quite astonishing, by Bush TheIdiot’s subterranean standards…Put TheAnger in a bubble & blow it away…
It sure must be nice to live in a consequenceless Environment, an Environment in which 1persons’ decisions have such far-reaching effect, millions of People, locally to globally, rightly or wrongly…& not in any case ever, not even once, not 1time, do those very People ever issue a decision that affects that 1person, in any real way, ever-never, & that is TheRub…It’s a 1way flow of consequences…WeThePeople get more upset with a CabDriver who may have overcharged Us a couple Dollars on the drive to the airport, than We do at a Man & his minions, committing crimes of the abstract & crimes of multi-national devastation, in the highest Reaches of Government with consequences & reverberations still rolling out across seismographs everywhere, tremors of consequences felt by everyone…It is the abstract nature of the crimes Bush & Vader have committed & continue to commit, that deflect public & congressional scrutiny, the qualities of intangibility that seem to pacify inquiry…Marching a Country to War with deception as its footing is not as obvious or as imminently impactful as watching a middle-aged Woman get mugged in an alley, purse snatched, punched in the face & pushed in a puddle, but I would ask all of You…Which is more of a crime? Which crime has the larger footprint? Because a crime is less obvious to ferret out, compared to a crime unfolding before You, does it make the less obvious crime a lesser offense? Which crime is worse? Simply put…The crime committed intangibly in the abstract over the course of months to years, or the horrors of a crime witnessed by yer own eyes, in realtime?…So we sit silent & pitiful, & TheDope sits among his AssKissers & SecretServiceGoons… WeThePeople sit pat & docile in the face of a Man ill-equipped to handle the Levers of Power that jut out in front of Him, as he steers our Superliner aground…We misdirect our Anger & He misdirects the Ship…Consequenceless… Such an incongruent equation…& all the while, TheRats run TheRace…& we all know, I’m sure with unfortunate intimacy, “TheRace” we all run as Rats within, is fraught with Peril, is a gauntlet of Guillotines, an obstacle course of Consequences…& those Fraudsters in DirtCity continue their selfdealing & personal enrichment, free of TheGauntlet, free of Consequences…Again, 2Years ago, these subjects would have been microscopically addressed with a vitriolic & whistleblowing Energy, with a dedicated spotlighting, a more full Analysis & recitation…But not these Days…Just a passing mention, maybe because my Time is, with everyday that passes, becoming more personally precious, which makes Me use my Freetime more selectively, & 9 times out of 10, matters of DirtCity or GeorgieTheDope lose, fail to set my Loins aflame…I have realized the effort I may have wanted to put forth, was not worthy of the effort itself, so in search of a more useful satisfaction, I turn to other Areas…
Like Music. & a particular Musician. AA Bondy. Record: American Hearts. RecordLabel: FatPossumRecords…For an old-fashioned goodtime, for an introspective drive down TheRoad, for a starry-skied cabride down MainStreet, for an abstractly solemn saunter down a willow tree-lined MemoryLane, for a simple southern profundity, for a HickoryDickoryDock metered Poetry that will leave you speechlessly charmed, slowrolling Music for all ages & all People…There might be 1 or 2 songs that aren’t appropriate for Everyone, but I would be suspicious of any serious Musician that didn’t offend Someone at least once…Get AA Bondy, “American Hearts”…
There is 1 other distinct reason this particular Musician & his Record clearly stand out among the Lineup of UsualSuspects, it is undoubtedly the TitleTrack: “American Hearts”…TheSong is an InstantClassic, an instant EyeOpener, in the classic ProtestSong format of the 60’s & early 70’s, the same conceptual over & undertones, no modern additions, the same traditional setup: an acoustic guitar, harmonica & an occasional snare & kick drum, & occasional electric guitar, but most magical musical moments are Bondy’s poetry, stories & his romantically subtle patriotic point of view, his acoustic, his harp & his half raspy half hollow croon…Like I just mentioned, it is a subtle ProtestSong, or even a subtle PeaceSong, Bondy doesn’t scream into TheMic for 5minutes whailing out “…Freedom!... Freeeedom!..Freedommm!...” as RichieHavens did so powerfully, thrashing his acoustic strings, sitting in his chair on stage at Woodstock…Bondy focuses on the compassionate posture everyday Americans should take in allowing 1another the space to speak freely, & not rush to an unpatriotic judgement when 1 may think differently…Bondy doesn’t employ a wordspinning sardonic humor, like that of the brilliance that is CountryJoe & TheFish on “Whoopee We’re All Going to Die!”…BobbyDylan’s artful “Blowin’ In the Wind”, JoanBaez, TheBeatles, & Lennon, on & on…WHERE IN THE HELL HAS BEEN ALL THE PROTEST SONGS ?!?!...Welp, after having 30years elapse between the last crop of RebelLeaders, & after 6years of contemporaneous War, We can finally add another notch on the musical headboard of hall of fame quality ProtestSongs, AABondy & his ditty “American Hearts”…
To back up a bit, ever since the 1stBombs were dropped on Baghdad, March20.2003, this War in Iraq has had many moving parts, & 1 moving part that never quite started to move, to emerge was the speak-truth-to-power ProtestSongs…Why is this? Have our Musicians gone Corporate in the new millenium? Have the once mercurial & defiant parables of the musically righteous been replaced with the calculated formulas & choreography of the young company Men & Women with inaudible instruments, bowing downdog to their CorporateMasters? Oh yes, our Musicians have shown stark Fear & cowardly silence in the face of the idea of politically pissing off a particular slice of the sales demographic pie chart, the 1st rule of the record selling business, of the entertainment business, sh*t, the 1st rule of Business broadly is: Never limit yer revenue stream. If a musician or entertainer wants to go off script & maybe advocate what might be perceived temporarily by a few in the consuming public as unpatriotic or AntiAmerican, then that is forbidden, because it quite obviously limits the revenue stream, yer free thinking actions inevitably will offend some microsection out here among the enclaves of the Circus sideshows… & that doesn’t “move units”, as the IndustryReps say…The RecordLabel needs you to move units, if you don’t move units, the modern Musician gets dropped from the rotation of Excess & Utopia, & quickly transforms back to a broke Billygoat…All for trying to create something that could be perceived as anti-trendy, yet substantively adventurous & important…I guess AA Bondy didn’t get TheMemo. Or if he did, he decided to politely disregard the corporate directives, & instead run the risk of actually being an Individual, with an opinion, with a position, with the courage to express how they feel, in such an effective way that it, by unintended consequences, provokes others to feel inadequate.
► Here is a Link to a YouTube video performance of MisterBondy, the 2ndSong played on the 7minute clip is “American Hearts”, the song I spoke of above…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJw17smL-x4&feature=related
►► & shifting gears once again, I had the occasion to be visiting a Friends’House last week, a house which provided me a rejuvenation zone & the most scenic of landscapes…& I’ve been trying to write more Poetry of late, so this is the result…Mahalo.
► BeforeTheWinterWindow
If 2 of Us is 3, & 3 of Us is Me,
Then 4 peeks through the NurseryDoor…
If snow flows in, & flow grows thin,
Then a fence is the comfort we all shiver within…
If Time is Age, & Age grows sage,
Then Time is measured by the locks on the cage …
If a tree stands lonely among a forest of wood,
& a Man stands bonely among skeletons of good,
Then caution you should, with the Man slightly crooked behind the black hood…
If Poverty is stored below the floorboards,
& the floorboards are sealed & ignored by the Tour,
Then more blood becomes sport, more supported by TheCourts…
But heed not the jewels that shimmer & shine
Or the fools with the tools that hack at the vine
Need the seed, heed the Creed, read the Deed,
& honor the circadian honor of freeing the Divine
Before the WinterWindow, order has been restored
Such is Life, such is the Gored,
Such is America…Amen, in the year of our Lord.
