American Waste

Jake Peters jpeters at cpinternet.com
Tue Feb 6 05:01:16 CST 2001


Huzzah! Huzzah!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org]On
> Behalf Of Deborah Grossman
> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:57 PM
> To: Pynchon-L at waste.org
> Subject: Re: American Waste
> 
> 
> I used him and he used me and we wasted our time. We wasted 
> our lives using one another getting wasted and using. In 
> Alphabet City we were wasted by our using. Consumption. We 
> wanted to die from consumption.  And we consumed more and 
> wasted more when we used. We wasted away, thin junkies, 
> thinning. There threadbare then naked under time screaming at 
> shadows fixing we were wasted again, again, again, again. He 
> was always lost and wasted. An West Coaster in the wasteland 
> east dreaming of flights on exhausted planes in painted 
> deserts. I was always devastated, destroyed, wounded, and 
> dying, and hating him.  We were wasted. We were using our 
> worthless bodies like byproducts of a  manufacturing process 
> when the world revolved around village trash cans in vacant 
> lots and using junk. 
> 
> But one day I met Sam. 
> Sam Sam. 
> Sam Sam and I met in the can. 
> In the can, that's the shithouse. 
> In the can, that's the bighouse. 
> 
> 
> Sam Sam 
> The bighouse shithouse man
> He hands out the papers
> He hands out the towels
> Saying, "Dig them rhythms
> Of they moving bowels." 
> 
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