44 Here Comes Coy to Save the Motherland

[alice wellintown]

Michael Bailey >
> Life is hard.  Before there were governments to oppress us there
> were bears and cold weather and all kinds of stuff.
> Also, government even now isn't the worst of our troubles:
> as Ben Franklin said, we are taxed more heavily by our own indolence,
> or words to that effect.  A-and, you can't cheat an honest man...I think
> that comes into play somewhere...
> Further, the gradual, not-at-all-pain-free, and obviously incomplete
> rapprochement between human-qua-human ("vogelfrei" aka Zoyd) coming to grips
> with government, and in their interactions with government's minions reminding
> them cleverly, perseverantly and poignantly of their own humanity is
> what I tend to see - but it is a figure-ground thing and the dystopia is
> equally prominent...it's just not the savory part...

As those Irish Americans sing, It's a Hard Life, a Hard Life, it's a
very Hard Life, It's a Hard Life Where ever you go ...

03 October 2008
Franklin! you must be spinning in your grave tonight:
America has exhausted your brightest light.
With doubtful debts and deadly deals, she is spent
without prudence, and without conscience lent,
then borrowed with deeds written on her back
in soldier blood and Arabian bile black.
And for a “free” Iraq her future foreclosed
with bailout bargains by robber barons posed.
She’s castrated her Bull and stripped her Bear
for Pig’s pork, and flimsy Chinaware
Oh! raise up Poor Richard and set us free;
Teach us prudence, patience, diplomacy.
Teach us our business; to earn and to save.
Then you may return to your still august grave.

                              -Alice Fowlbardintown

>
>>
>> I disagree; most of us don't like to see young people getting
>> together. Nature wants to see young people together. More and more,
>> most of us try to prevent Nature from having her way. Hope and Coy
>> have not done much good for each other.
>
> two junkies meet in a toilet, each on a one way trip to self
> destruction, and instead of that happening they both survive?
> and have a kid, and leave the Life?  what more do you want,
> egg in your beer?
>
>
>>> yes, that can't be the reason.  Something else that was in him
>>> prior to dope and stayed with him?
>>
>> Yeah, it's an inside job. He should go to Rio. If you can't find it
>> when there, you don't want to.
>>
>
> just about everything I know about Rio I learned from
> Black Orpheus (1959), Blame it on Rio (1984) and Flying Down to Rio (1933)
> big honkin' statue of Jesus, cool beaches, lush vegetation, so forth...
>
>
>
> --
> --- "Bearing in mind that either I don't know
> or it'll be my ass if I tell you, what is it, man?" - Coy Harlingen
>