The Fargo Kantrowitz'z Literary Campsite

The world is alright today a fictive reservoir by Fargo Kantrowitz

so i was sitting on tweetle dumb way, way….then the words trailed off and up and upwards this trolling for blue among the falling stars down glowing. Neil Diamond called it the Heartlight in that song. The heartlight.

Since when did ya become a poet, Jack? Glory fame and all that. Blip*. Quick what form then this that gives such arbitrary light to darkened reasons not wanting the shine. Blip*. What form this then that gives us light? This heartlight? Plick away the soul starting from the sleeve one two three. The people are getting scared and are going to fight to the death if they have to and they’re going to start right here in my neighborhood. No matter how hard they try they will never be able to fight off the scourge that is the drug war. My neighbors are inside of the drug war grounds and because of it, yes, I live in a “war zone.” Great. Just call the whole goddamned thing off, get these people on their feet and ask God to forgive you. Then maybe your soul will be alright. The sixties dream was swept off into a corner called daily monthly weekly where it could be properly policed. But what would you do? If the drug takes all your money and you have to steal and kill ever after to attain that privelege of having continued to live at all. By this time they can’t think of anything but drugs. So we’ve got the jails for them. The jails. Now, me, being a victim of crime recently have been thinking of the jails and how I want my particular criminal to go there for a long time so I can at least have peace of mind that he isn’t going to keep robbing me blind like he has all this week. They busted him after he stole my friend’s car. They busted the idiot at a 7 eleven and took him in. In the car was a home stereo receiver and a red taped hand axe. A professional.

No, I’m not blaming Mr. Bush. No, I’m not blaming anybody in high office. There is too much at stake, however, we the people of the lower echelons of America have a right to a say as well. People need to be taken care of a lot of times. They didn’t have good parental examples, for example, and never really learned how to fend for themselves in this complex society. We are perhaps the only species that has made its society too complex for its members to participate. It is part of the industrial revolution. it is the cold hearted way of capitalism. Taking care of people is socialist, but socialism is not communism. The amount of money that could be made by people allowing a socialist attitude to prevail when it comes to social issues instead of a capitalistic attitude, would change little under either system. But the people will be saved. The victims of crimes will be saved, the crimes not even happening because somebody is being taken care of who otherwise wouldn’t be. And this idea that we are to do it among ourselves through churches and the like. A church is about as big a group as you need to accept one bad man because individuals are locking their doors and finding it solemn to keep a gun for protection. This isn’t Christianity. This is some sort of armed uprising against the people who cause you harm. But what choice do they have? What choice is there? It is either arm yourself or be eaten alive by the madmen of the world.

A woman doesn’t want a man who is not grown up in this respect. She will, in fact, spurn him for it goes against her natural reaction as a beast to fight if necessary. So men easily step up and it is tied to their manhood. The woman is always there to glare lovingly and longingly over the shoulder of the man who is going to protect her children. It is natural. Peacemakers die off.

But we have to lose that whole spectrum. There are thousands of beautiful young ladies in the west who see the larger picture and wouldn’t fuck you If you stood up like those others. But these are different centuries. The red states are living in right about 1979 and those other girls are testing the future or bobbing peaceful upon the lulling memories of the 1960s. Either way somebody’s getting laid. But then we’re talking about a war. The cowboys are married to the hippies and will always be. Now the hippies are called “liberal” but none of those people who hate liberals would be acting that way at a Dead show. And they’re not all that old so they don’t know if they like the Dead or not. All these fucking people my age and younger who are acting like they are their own grandfathers, as if bands like the Dead or the Beatles were just a Bl*p in time, and an immature bl*p at that. Their pants are full of toothpicks. Their trousers are befuddled with mud piles bulking, They are eating pudding with a spoon.

Peace was introduced as a concept and was introduced as something meant to be practiced on a larger level. Ideas sprouted up and took hold and gained adherents until technology finally caught up with them and are ready to be put into place. Theories for the structuring of the world has taken place and could be implemented if only we did not fear the choices we already made. Bending the beast is what’s needed. Taking stresses off of her breaking points. These are Americans too! The poor and downtrodden, the drug addicted and alcoholic, the slow, the weak, the fragile. Can’t we look up and away from our own misery for a moment? Can’t we be allowed to insist that our governmental entities which control these large social structures be more responsive to the poor.

It is obvious what is going on. Americans are obsessed with safety and protection. The defense budget gets bigger and bigger. An entire industry is sucking on the tit of the country going the opposite direction of helping all Americans. It is oil based. It needs weapons this war for oil. The rest of us are starting to starve while the other half starts to get fat. it’s what caused the civil war partly. The big money goes beyond north and south now. It’s all good. America is truly bonded in its love for the money that is brought to it by oil. The car industry could stop the whole show by stopping the manufacture of non hybrid engines. The government should help. This is an example where Government Can Help. It is supposed to. It is why we pledge allegiance to the flag every morning because she has promised to help. This is the view of America that I want to teach my children someday. I want them to know that America is a great and responsive country that will not allow her children to go hungry or make people so mad that they commit horrendous crimes against one another. This is the America that I insist upon.

But then I have to remember what is currently considered “proper American thinking.” This is the flip side of radical right’s “creative” propaganda play concerning the term “politically incorrect.” They ran with that one and made it politically incorrect to do the following things: you can vote democratic, but only because you’re an American and the Democratic party is older than they are. You can’t vote for abortion or same sex marriage because that’s going against God and let’s get that out of the way right now here and for all (end of conversation is a favorite tactic of the criminal), when there is discussion and you make your points all who see you are to remember that you are probably a pinko, commie, faggot and (yes, next question please).

The whole bloody mess gets mean until it is like the cowboys are crooks and the hippies are high. Suddenly there is no more common ground. The stereotypes have gotten in the way. But, the question begs, do you placate to Hitler? Gasp? A war where perhaps one hundred thousand people have died so that we can bring “democracy” (not a Republic?) to the world. Oil, oil, oil, oil, oil, oil, oil, oil, oil, oil, oil, oil, oil, oil, oil…

Placate? What does that mean? Giving in. No, can’t do that? But you must give concessions? No, i can’t do that. Then They have issues: no, we can’t do that? You are killers? No we’re not? Yes, you are. Every nation at the gut level most fearful of all of civil war. What point are we trying to force. If you kill that person will this philosophical notion somehow become truer? War is payment in stupidity for a people’s greed and fear. That greed and fear wouldn’t even be there if we set up the system truer, kinder, more socially understanding. Then, if we are to spread something, it is not police brutality but keen understanding of the fact that all people are different and each nation has deep cultural methods of doing things that we as outsiders could never really understand, especially making the decision by watching the news from our easy chair just before turning to entertainment tonight, a bong hit and that book that you keep by your bed. The people know how to take care of themselves. Ideas can be put into place that will replace pain with salve. Perhaps I would not have been a victim of crime at all had we put a few dollars where is needed instead of into bombs to back up our message that we’re the greatest country on earth. Is that right…