VLVL What's it all "about"?

[Terrance]

> 
> > There is
> > bitter irony in the fact that Weed tells the People that now is not the
> > time to take up arms against the Man. The Man, Weed argues,  will only
> > blow you away with a Rocket. Some readers, too quick to blame the Man
> > for every human weakness, fail to see the parallels in Ortho Bob's
> > desire for revenge and how Vato and Blood betray their brothers in arms
> > and are directly  responsible for the deaths of the fellow soldiers.
> 
> But what if their government hadn't sent them to wage an unjust war in the
> first place, which is part of "the truth" which Rex has come to see (207),
> and which is also certainly a big part of the karma that needs to be
> "adjusted".

Perhaps, years later, relaxing  on a hot summer's day under a colorful
umbrella in front of some  Dominican Joint up around 138th, some sweet
little thing is a Catholic school girl uniform, white stockings, black
buckle shoes, walking up the long steep steps of Saint Nick's Park,
turns and sez, 

"I wuz beginning to wonder about that white boy eating off of yo plate,
ya think he ain't never seen yuka and yams befoe. Or food for that
matter." 

Ortho Bob, slurping carrot juice threw a straw, face full of yams, rice
and beans in his lap, 

"Wooom, veee nnn gu nah woonm ova dnair." 

"Mmmm, me and Blood, we was just a couple of stupid ass kids."