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On 7 July 2010 22:53, Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> If you go outside even today,
> temperature scheduled for 103 F,
> you will see the white trash under their cars
> doing oil & lube jobs in the parking lot.
>
> Not me, not yet.
>
> I left my car keys in the door last week
> and nobody stole my car or keyed the doors.
> I felt grateful but almost insulted.
> I own a car not worth stealing?
>
> Maybe the shade of the cars
> protects against the heat: a treble
> utility. Not just change your oil
> not just shade yourself
>
> but not have to pay dumping fees.
>
> I have lost my sense of democracy and social justice,
> Gustavo Gutierrez would be angry with me.
> Living here has turned me to an elitist
> among the Pennsylvania version of Council Houses,
> made me think of John Arden socialist paradise Sixties drama
>
> in which I play not a role but myself
>
> chewing on a pipe-stem, saying "Arrrgghhh!" like a sailor with the clap,
> to scare little kids who would say worse--because they're armed--to scare
me.
> Maybe when the weather breaks I will reassume
> my mask of democratic egalitarianism and
> feel for the poor because I've joined them.
>
> Or maybe I will remain what extremes expose,
>
> Sucker with his nose turned up so high
> that he can smell the crack and free-base
> cooking up in the next building over.
>
> KW/7-7-10
>
> (No joke this time, one draft, maybe two corrections. The Brits here
probably know Arden and how he wrote about Council Housing. Gutierrez is a
Dominican Catholic theologian who wrote a wonderful book on Job as the
outcry of the poor in the face of God's and man's collaborative injustices.)
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>
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