It wasn't that nobody didn't understand the innocence of children, just nobody cared. They were asked to keep secrets way beyond their years, terrible secret burdens foisted upon them by blood and gun, shake downs and take downs, when all that should have been their keep were little raggedy dolls and horses made from mop sticks with harnesses of string.
In the wrong place at the wrong time, cowering in a dirty doorway only to get splattered with the internal juice of some unknown shadow in dingy piss laden halls, that got washed away in the tub's used water with the dust and grit of daily play. The shivering mistaken for the cold water, was really shock in the wide staring eyes that relived it in the back room of their mind, that thankfully someday would eventually get posted in their subconscious, like another cut mark on a cowboy's gun.
Terrible burdens of prostitutes getting beat and thrown back on the sidewalk to ply their wares once more in the heroine haze that used to be their minds. Burdens of the junkie in the alley slapping dead veins just one more time to take a hit. Burdens that couldn't even be unloaded when the cops came and asked, and they knew.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Love Being A Kid
Its May 2009, it's 99 degrees outside and I have to wait until dark before I can go see StarTrek,'cause I can't breathe well in the heat, but that's the only thing keeping me home right now. I'm a Trekkie through and through. Got indoctrinated by my son back in the 70's who never missed an episode and knew every word of every script on every show during the series introduction. I got that way on Independence Day, know all the words.
We used to marvel at the forward thinking of Roddenbery, how did he know all that stuff? And it went on, after they brought StarTrek back to entrench it in American culture for life evidently, since it's playing in all the studios 40 years later. So I'm back to being excited about a movie like I was about StarWars, and too, The Wolverine, OMG that man is so fine, and I think the movie was pretty good but I'll have to watch it again since I wasn't looking at much of it the first time. I cant wait for it to come out on DVD so I can slow that run across the field where he jumps the fence part.
If my health would allow it, I'd still be in a field somewhere waiting on the ball to fall out of the sky, or laying on a wide tree branch with a book about horses, or riding them, and all the other things kids do, because I still want to do them. I have never known what my age felt like, I had no frame of reference. I didn't know how to feel at 35 or 55. Don't know how to feel now, but I know I want to see StarTrek at least 4 times!
Now, let's see, where did I put that video game I was playing....................
We used to marvel at the forward thinking of Roddenbery, how did he know all that stuff? And it went on, after they brought StarTrek back to entrench it in American culture for life evidently, since it's playing in all the studios 40 years later. So I'm back to being excited about a movie like I was about StarWars, and too, The Wolverine, OMG that man is so fine, and I think the movie was pretty good but I'll have to watch it again since I wasn't looking at much of it the first time. I cant wait for it to come out on DVD so I can slow that run across the field where he jumps the fence part.
If my health would allow it, I'd still be in a field somewhere waiting on the ball to fall out of the sky, or laying on a wide tree branch with a book about horses, or riding them, and all the other things kids do, because I still want to do them. I have never known what my age felt like, I had no frame of reference. I didn't know how to feel at 35 or 55. Don't know how to feel now, but I know I want to see StarTrek at least 4 times!
Now, let's see, where did I put that video game I was playing....................
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