He told me that when I wanted
to whore myself out to get a
celebrity politico elected,
cautioning me:
"Politics is like pro wrestling
with real-life repercussions."
He mows lawns for a living
and drinks Schnapps as if
it were water,
he has a library card
that he uses more than his
credit card
and is rarely around a
computer
He lives away from paved roads
and power lines and manipulative
big cities that would otherwise
crush his modern day salty
Emerson self-reliance,
a true singular character that
you may never see again but that you
never forget.
The kind of person who should be
in Congress today.
Mr. Warhol's prediction came true
but people have nothing to say or do
in those fifteen minutes.
the deaths of mystery, hard-earned
knowledge and fantasy, all of them
organic super soul mind foods
boosted by printed texts
perished for being far too large
and time-consuming
one day they will be found in
museums and warehouses
packed within jammed disordered
file cabinets next to the fool's gold
dinosaur bones that are in all
actuality the remains of murdered
iconoclasts culled together with airplane
glue by archaeologists who
got their degrees online
and who sniff airplane glue
What remains of the archives
coveted by the eccentric ladies
and gents still clothed in natural
fibers and digging through pages
the thrill of chasing knowledge
with strong appetites of
the imagination. Nerds who
have few friends and have read
a book or two by Marshall McCluhan
and know who Woody Guthrie and
Voltaire were. People
who masturbate frequently and
with little guilt, read small press
printed on delicate paper and who
don't adhere to religious dogma,
making mosaics of the human spirit
across the globe all on their own.
These are the people that are going
to save the world.
Kevin Ridgeway is a writer from Southern California, where he resides in a shady bungalow with his girlfriend and their one-eyed cat. Recent work has been featured in Underground Voices, Red Fez, Hobo Camp Review, Quantum Poetry Magazine, Haggard & Halloo and Side B Magazine.
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Dede
2011-11-07 13:27:39
Don't Feed the Pig...LOVE.