you know, you know
4 November 2007 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
An em pee three of the original You Know, You Know FROM this album
An em pee three of the string quartet version FROM this cd
On Halloween
when I was fourteen
I TP’ed Roger’s yard. I lived on a short road in the country. A handful of boys lived on the road; I was the oldest. We didn’t have a lot of options for adding tricks to the treats because most of the houses on the road belonged to our parents or grandparents. So we decided to TP the house that belonged to Roger and his wife. Roger was a great guy and my biology teacher. I rode with him everyday to school.
So the next morning as I sat in Roger’s car,
waiting for him to come out to drive me to school,
looking at the stringy multi-colored mess of wet toilet paper (it was raining) all over his trees,
I marveled: How stupid did I have to be to pull such a lame prank when I should have known the next morning he was going to come out, and, in an instant, see the mess, see me, and KNOW that I had to have done it. And then we had the long ride to school.
Which brings me to george w bush. After he has shown the world that under his leadership we are no longer competent take care of our own, let alone vanquish our enemies (where is Osama?) and protect freedom around the world, he has the balls to say that congress is not doing their job. When they seem to be trying to carry out the will of the people but subverting his continued failed policies.
Is he gonna wake up after his term has ended and think: Crap! I still live here, and now I’ve gotta sit with my neighbors and watch the consequences of the soggy mess I created.
Nah. He will still have more hubris and less self-awareness than even a particularly stupid 14-yr-old. He’ll just blame whoever Karl tells him to (oh no, Karl is not truly gone) and go to sleep early.
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Too true.