March 23, 2013
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Palm Sunday: A tale of two cities…or Americas
One bumper sticker that i’ve always remembered, said:
You worship a homeless man on Sundays and then are oblivious to them the rest of the week.
in essence…in practice i’m not sure people actually worship that homeless man as much as they’re in church for networking and powertripping
At work i’m a combination of Hawkeye Pierce and Charles Manson, my flirtations offset by my deranged sense of humor–people seem to think that i’m only insane on the internet–those that do know me in real life know i’m about 53 cards short of a full deck…
Wednesday that image was kind of shattered…it was preternaturally cold here in NYC and i saw my homeless dude and said to myself that today would be a great day to buy him a meal…i should’ve told him my intentions
If it was warmer, he’d still be out there…but he wasn’t when i returned 20 minutes later.
Most New Yorkers have their favorite homeless–people who they there for the grace of God project upon–the girls in the office had no clue that i was that kind of New Yorker since i joke about everything from cop killers and killer cops to cripples, queers, and midgets…political correctness is not my forte!
So i asked my favourite girl in the office–she’s 61–if she brought her lunch that day…she forgets 50% of the time…and she did again, so it came in handy since she was leaving early to go to the nursing home where her 85-year-old mom is in her last daze in a five year battle with cancer
And i let it slip that i bought the food for my homeless dude–who by the way never begs–and now it’s out that i really wasn’t the one that said to Lucifer: Yo, let’s revolt and take out this god dude…..
On the other side, there’s the cellphone moms…the child abusers who are gonna raze a generation of emotionally disabled children
i boarded an elevator on the penultimate stop before hitting the ground floor, and a texting mommy mindlessly dragged her kid out while i was entering, then yanked the kid back on as she realized her mistake before the door closed. So what happens in the land of haves when their kids become the have nots in a country that wants to create a technocratic czarist Russia
As Matt Drudge would say, developing…
