Fried Green al-Qaedas



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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

For Rayne, on another faultless night


The Corn Gods

The government owns these thoughts.

Would you like to learn to read?

Like bees at dawn, these are the days of our life. These rings require a finger.

The corn gods long ago were angry,
  but now, like us, they’re just confused.
Believers now crumbled to dust and the festival 
  of the harvest <fade> just a memory.

They are largely impotent, their very genetic 
  makeup having been rewired,
And in a few short generations they will be
  vegetables.
No lingering looks,
Just the odd colored finger of an ear  popping up
  for a twist in the sun.

Is it always a conspiracy, the end?
Well, what else?
Do you expect an intellectual uprising, warriors
  willing to break their glasses and to scatter their
  research?
Do you expect workers uniting in unguarded
   night?
And who would notice if indeed they rose? 

Who wouldn’t?
These things require a ringer. 

Curly’s lament –
we can’t forget it –
Curly’s lament.
Whoo whoo whoo.
For all the sense you hope to make. 
For all the hearts you hope to break.
Thank you Moe. May I have another?

“Done spewed my mouthful out Lord, ain’t goin to
   town no more”.
The blues abound.
Blue spotlights slice the stage.
The audience, they moan as one.
“Don’t call me up no doctor, just nail me to the
   killin floor.” 
The killing floor as metaphor.

A better metaphor for pain and boundless sorrow
   might be the human body by itself.
The very embodiment of violence –
   teeth,
   eyes,
   fists,
   feet,
   bellies,
   bones –
So many weapons, so many targets.

The glory of meat comes undone somewhere in the Prussian night.

<Sighs> Chauncey, you're a victim.
Schedule a follow up.
Maybe call out for the glories of your forefathers.
Yes it's true, nobody's perfect. 
Only the past is permanent.
The name of each and every sorrow shall be
   tattooed to your skull.

The government owns these thoughts.

Yes it's true, no body's perfect.
That in and of itself is the beauty and the banality.
It's an old concept, old as civilization itself. Control the symbols to control the thoughts to
   control the masses.

Would you like to learn to read?   



8:10:49 PM    comment []


You Say Poseda, I Say Posada - Help Me Dr. Phil

The Bush Administration freely admits that it has one heck of a decision to make in the case of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

"Yes, it's quite the quandry," White House staffer Benjamin Reynolds told FGAQ, under assurance of anonymity. "On the one hand, he did blow up an airplane and kill several dozen people. On the other hand, it was a Cuban airliner, and just who is it that's trying to extradite him? Could it be Señor Hugo Chavez, the venal vandal of Venezuela?"

"Former CIA guy," Reynolds said. "Heck of an agent. By God, he did some jobs for us that I can't even tell you about, like the Beta Thong caper. Ever hear of that? Damn right you haven't. Helped organize anti-Castro demonstrations in Columbia and Honduras in the 1960s, until we got him a high-ranking post in Venezuelan security. Some say he went mad, bit by bit; others say it was company business."

'Bad blood' is the judgment of many Cuban-Americans, who feel that Posada may have been set up as a patsy after his involvement in the Guatemalan 'cabeza del arbusto' fiasco, in which the face of then CIA director George H. W. Bush was cloned onto watermelons for surprise distribution to the Sandinistas. The theory that this would create much fear amongst the rebels proved to be dead wrong, and Posada was charged with blowing up the Cuban airliner scant months later.

Did I mention that Posada has been in the US since March, seeking asylum? Oh well, at 77 he is getting up in years, and the Homeland Security Department had high hopes that he would die of old age before anyone noticed. If it wasn't for Cuba and Venezuela raising such a ruckus, it might have turned out that way.

"I don't know," Reynolds told us, laboring over his language, "the dude has been fighting one of the worst tyrannies around. Cuba may not be part of the axis of evil, but few would argue the point that it's at least part of the bodice of badness, and should someone attempt to rip that foul garment asunder, is that so wrong? I don't know. Won't somebody please tell me? This zero tolerance policy is so damn hard."


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