Poetry


• My Little Old Lady - Jessica Aden
• We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - Hunter S. Thompson

My Little Old Lady

by Jessica Aden
 
Every morning as I drive down Lincoln Blvd;
There she is
Sitting at the bus bench

Looking stylish as ever
Ragged fur coat, bottle bleached hair, and her only possession
Revlon red lipstick
She had ventured to California years ago, Venice to be exact
to become a famous starlet

Then something happened... something just went wrong...
Her jaded expression and squeaky little voice always brightened
up any day, as I sit through neverending Monday morning traffic

Never moving an inch from that bus bench at lincoln and California
in the last two years,
One day she gone...

Every night as I go to bed, I wonder where my little old lady ventured off
too
I wonder if she finally became the star she always wanted to be...

I know one thing for sure,
Wherever she is, she’s sitting in the bright sunlight, wearing her ragged
old coat and her Revlon Red lipstick in hand,
Ready to apply at any given time.

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Hunter S. Thompson...RIP

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the
whole world--a nation of bullies and bastards who
would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not
just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with
hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and
that is how history will judge us...No redeeming
social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or
we'll kill you.
Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who
among us can be happy and proud of having this
innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine?
These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and
fooled by stupid rich kids like George Bush?

They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali
locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for
all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the
American character. They are the racists and hate
mongers among us--they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss
down the throats of these Nazis.

And I am too old to worry about whether they like it
or not. Fuck them.

–from Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century, London: The Penguin Press, 2003

Posted: Tue - March 1, 2005 at 12:12 PM          


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