Monday, November 8, 2010

HUNGER IS THE ENEMY !

I had enough of the questioning. He didn't understand how much of a hurry I was in or how truly hungry I was. That hunger that changes your mood from cordial to animalistic. So I laid into him. With all my will and my corporate experience. He was in front of a CEO and was about to find out how important I am!!!
"You like black and white movies kid?" Before he could answer I continued.
"You see the one where the guy messes up and gets a pair of cement shoes?" I was going and he was not daring to respond anymore. All I heard was a car horn in the distance. But I continued anyway. "Can you imagine what that must feel like to be thrown into the ocean with a pair of cement shoes? I guess if your lucky enough to get one last breath in, then it's probably kind of a peaceful moment. The sound just stops, you open your eyes and everything is blue...kind of dreamlike I could imagine. But then, a second later, you look up as your sinking and the moonlight begins disappearing and everything starts to get dark. I bet about that moment is when you realize that you're holding your breath. Then, in a flash of panic you open your mouth, your lungs fill with salt water and you're heart begins racing uncontrollable until cardiac arrest. AND YOU'RE DEAD !!!
A moment of silence, then he finally responded, "Sir, I still need to know if you want curly fries or regular?" My eyes darted back and forth in thought before answering, "Curly." "Please pull forward," he said. Another car horn from behind before I pulled forward. I was about to calm the beast called hunger. And I suspect the rest of the world would be a better place from it!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

I GOT MUCH MORE THAN A PILL TODAY



His refusal only angered me more.
"But I was promised, guaranteed actually," I responded with confusion.
"You were no more guaranteed than anyone else," he responded.
"But your wrong, I was! In fact that is the very reason I'm here today."
This argument continued for several minutes until I left in a furious anger. The kind of anger that scars one from the inside. The kind of anger that slices and dices rational thought. This anger carried me outside into the street and it was there that I met my new fate. A fate I could not imagine living before.
"Try this," came a voice from behind me.
I had been warned not to trust strangers as a youth. Strangers such as this.
"What is it?", my internal curiosity instantly spouted out. "I have never seen a pill such as this."
"That is why I give it to you now," he responded with compassion.
I did not ask this question out loud though. Or did I?
"Go with it," I said to myself. Hell, maybe I could Shine, who knows.
As I took this pill into my hands I felt a burden, a lifelong burden, being lifted. That preverbal weight of conformity being ripped off of me. I loved it, I relished in it. Fuck the world I knew before. This is what I've wanted and now it was in my own hands.
Changing one pill inside this building for another outside seemed crazy at first, but not in this desperate situation I had found myself in. It was in fact a new pill of unconditional acceptance for me to enjoy.
I had it in my hands now. I had it and it was about to fill my brain with new concepts of reality. New dreams and a new architecture for my so called soul! I was about to be re-born and I somehow knew it. Screw what others told me I was supposed to be. SCREW ALL OF THEM! In my hands was my future. One that was not pushed upon me, but was presented to me.
This new pill was not gilded in hypocrisy or filled with empty rhetoric. This pill was in fact the forbidden fruit that was looked down upon by those very followers. Those that blindly march in lock-step, those that had long ago drunk that nasty bitter tasting Cool-Aid. This pill was in fact for anyone who would listen and I was this man now. Others had called it a dirty four letter word. Still others insisted it was filled with stories of people who do not understand.
I took my new medicine and brought in internal daylight. I took this medicine in defiance of a system that had now rejected me and my mind. I took this pill this stranger put in my hands today. But before I did I had one more question.
"What is this new pill called stranger?"
He smiled with enthusiasm and said, "BOOK".



PEOPLE...Pay your attention bills !


Young people of America, awake from your
slumber of indolence and harken to the call
of the future! Do you realize that you are
rapidly becoming a doomed generation?
Do you realize that the fate of the world and
of generations to come rests on your
shoulders? ...Oh ignorant youth, the world
is not a joyous place. The time has come
for you to dispense with the frivolous
pleasures of childhood and get down to
honest toil until you are sixty-five. Then
and only then can you relax and collect
your social security and live happily until
the time of your death.

Fearfully and disgustingly yours,
John J. Righteously Hypocrite

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Saturday, October 17, 2009