Meet the New Boss (Pynchon's THEY or The Firm is Dead)

[alice wellintown]

Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> It saddens me when people refuse to see the obvious. That's a recurrent TRP
> theme that I [and Dave] like to point out.

If people refuse to "see the obvious", maybe, just maybe, itz cause
they do see the obvious. Yeah, like maybe people see, maybe even more
than you give them credit for. So, when you get all sad about it,
well, itz kinda like them preachers tellin us all that we're gonna end
up dead. Yeah, we know about that and global warming and we dig Pete
Seeger's song, now every every every body, even if we don't like his
ugly sweater and his dying man's voice. We get it man. Itz obvious.
Right? That most don't want to see the sky or sea just now, let alone,
be dragged down to the shore to look at the oil and plastic bottles
all smeared with lizard scum and brown bloggog, don't mean they don't
care or ain't cool. We know, we ain't busy bein born, we don't need no
street preacher with fifty pounds of BP stapled to his heart reminding
us that the end is near. Hell, when P gets on his soap box, like he
does about technology and the bomb, I wanna stuff his face in an
Indian shit pile by the tracks where poor tailors dump their mound of
troubles. Itz America, dude; you got it good, just make us laugh and
build something beautiful. Poetry is the stuff to drink for people who
know how to think and who can see the obvious without some patronizing
preacher quoting from GR chapter and verse.