It’s dusk and the
piss yellow skies are darkening over the mentholated haze…on the
skyline lights are coming on one by one and above slabs of shitcement
the towers and dishes and spires look like electronic tumbleweeds
against the horizon----before long trinity will be straddling the
city as she does in many places, her pink and white neon frame
blinking and shaking in open invitation--- a clarion call for the
spirit not unlike the kicking haffner mule and the 24 hour party
going on at the all night gas stop…big petroleum pinata…trinity
provokes over cities great and small, she’s in new york, she’s in
la, she’s in paris, london and there are even stories of her
looming over new kowloon if you can imagine that…
there was that
isolated moment in history when religion saw itself for exactly the
monster it had become and so for the most part came the collapse…now
it creeps along in an anachronistic, almost apologetic fashion and
monsters are almost always more pleasant to deal with when their
teeth have been taken out…..most people take it for granted that
the huge woman looming seductively over all of us is a monster…sure
if she is she’s no more one than the old glorious nuchunga building
or bill’s instant quinoa (good and it’s good for
you)----religion, at any rate, concluded (survival instinct) that it
needed to do some serious backpedaling in order to win friends…free
tickets to paradise, we’re really not as bad as you think, we
haven’t slaughtered the infidel today and everyone’s favorite,
beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy….it was a
public relations bonanza….and of course, now we got trinity
towering over every berg offering all and sundry a glimpse up that
hiked-up skirt…go ahead and get yourself a gander, kid----just
remember she’s a monster that’s been defanged---
heard this
joke once….a rabblerouser and two pickpockets have been nailed to
trees on a hill….some rube was walking past the carcasses when he
very faintly hears the second pickpocket singing, “tea…for
two…and two….for tea…”
that was an old favorite of
mine….i might not be remembering it correctly….maybe you just
hadda be there….
Copyright 2014 C.F. Roberts/2016 Molotov Editions
THIS WEEK'S PLAYLIST:
Chris Bell-I Am the Cosmos
Big Star-Kangaroo
Boredoms-Super Coming
Flaming Lips-Zaireeka LP
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