You know, when it was open, it went all the way around the world, the Hippie Trail was always full of homeless wandering folks, mostly young, many nations donated good citizens and we ruled our road, New York ...fly out West, come back in from the East cooking macaroni and stinky sausage and olive oil omelets potatoes and carrots to peel for fucking ever,washing dishes on a scroungy old freighter full of crazy hash smoking Egyptians that don't even know what "Seaman's Papers" are, Merchant Marines, what,... "is it them, what, they invade the American stores???.. If you work there, can you keep stuff??"If you want something, you can have it here if you work for it.
No shit Sami, anything you want in America, no matter who you are, you can try to get it, you can talk about it, you can complain about it, you can ask for a warranty or a guarantee on it when you do get it, you can sell it for twice as much as you paid for it, you can marry anyone you love and want to, have as many kids as you guys want, in America, in 1987, you were free, is what I said and I meant it, too. I explained that in the ways of social justice, America had problems...but... you can duck all that shit and go outside to play, it is way more exciting and fun, but it's risky, and dangerous, no net if you are a winner, two nets if you are a smart winner, just never need the government for anything but roads and water and don't let the man get you.
He was in a band with an Arab slant, "Shiek Vaseline-o and the Zealots"..had a gig canceled in SF because the Embassy complained or something...they didn't last long...the dude was Arab and proud of it, he knew the history of Islaam, he spells it like that, he is also a talented classical musician who loves rock and roll. I think that publicly he came off as racist and he thought that was hilarious and he played it up for his fans, all five of them
If they have been paying attention to it, many can see in the wobbling system of government we are trying to use right now, they see the realities of America's two-party system.
Voting is all we really have on these guys and it does not work fast enough..but... I submit to you, the reason it is so difficult to actually fix an American Big Election with voter fraud, I do believe that it would not be possible to do quietly because so many of us are involved in them, volunteers paid temporary and part-time workers, then...and watch out for this, I have seen it happen before, we think we're fucked and then....we aren't...pay attention to history, we are always rising and falling but..there is a secret America that votes, they are the real silent majority, I think some even just say whats convenient to get another to shut up and then vote their conscience and deny it forever, but they do, it has happened before here and polling is not what it was, not even close, no one has a phone they will answer for a robo call, no one mails shit back, we are busy, we know what we want and we will do what we think is right, again...we will...you will see.
We Americans run all of our elections differently, practically no one is identical to anyone else,, real news or otherwise, some of us trusted our newspapers. I remember an uncle who used to vote with our "local" newspaper... Bribery is another matter, and a small one, I think, for the same reasons, you have to corrupt everyone differently, or, it used to be so, maybe shit changed, imagine that, since the last time I paid a lot of attention to it.
So, that's good. Leave it alone and just go ahead and remember this, this is absolutely true and exactly why the big election riggers don't like it, they can't fuck with the mail. Federal, a heavy federal crime it is, fucking with the mail..you better not...you will get caught and busted,, voting by mail is a GREAT WAY to vote. The whole state of Oregon votes like that, we have no state issues that I know of, with bringing in the mail-in votes and counting them, it runs really smooth. AND...no matter where you are officially registered, you can vote by mail if you so choose, from any fucking where.
Being bought into the entire systemic arena life of the "average American" today, it seems to me, I hear and see that many feel as if they are paying too much and not getting back, the taking of the taxes, where I work, they meet. They see each other and the denizens can be observed easily and clearly as they move through the place, heads on swivels, always watching, looking, they are the hungry ghosts living in the realm of the hungry ghosts, the gimme some for free guys, the guys you don't want to pay for, lazy washed up dope fiend burnouts, they pass by and through where I work, maybe six or so per my 22 hours a week, and it is a quiet nice little city we got here, at the end of a dynamite light rail system, get run out of Portland and take the A train to the end of the line and come to see if you can use our bathroom.
Hard working, paying customers, in their cars, watch nervously when the denizens appear on the corner, across the street, you can see them, arrrggghhh!!! Don't come over here, oh my god, "don't come over here", I say under my breath, watching It approach, is It talking to Itself? human,? It is human, right?? , fills our consciousnesses, maybe we can mentally power him away, but, we sell alcohol and cigarettes, here he comes, no stopping him now, right at me, "hey bro", .**/*bathroom, cigarette, free food, free coffee, help me?
Now, we are looking at the real gummoes here, the wandering alcoholic speed-sucking almost lost to humanity ones, outside so long they have begun to grow fur and fangs, unable, period. Un-Able. These guys are not the hobo beatnik hippie I was(am). They couldn't get out of town if they didn't have a ride, no way they could hop a train, or swipe a car and take care of it so you had wheels until you got a real one together, these guys don't even do what they have to, or need to. I think it must be the end of the line, how long it takes to croak from there, I guess depends on the denizen.
Actually, now...watch this...I get to use a word; the epitome of it, they are to the point of Absolutely Un-Able and homeless and strung out to the bone, we see two a day at least, and even that is only when I am there, we are open from 6am to 10pm every day, so.....we all feel the same at work, it is not just and simply "Fuck you and fuck off" in vitriol ...it is more like, now, for five years I have been there,..they have wrecked our bathroom for the last time, nothing is free, a cup of ice is a quarter, no credit, this ain't a restaurant.
Our customer sees the real thing, the answer to the who and how? It is the dude in the store, he walked right by his windshield, so, now when he is thinking about the tenets of modern life, ugly shit in your face that only money and empathy can help, both tanks on way down low right now..because...
A) "Someone" is screwing you.
B) You think you know "who" it is
C) ""They" are getting free shit that they don't have coming, we are paying for it and gas is way too much, motherfucker...
D) "They" are all on drugs
E)Some of the homeless folks are seriously mentally ill, schizophrenics with no stable care delivery system they can find as they chase the thing they see down the street, talking loudly and crossly to something else, footfalls in who knows what mad forest, inhabited by only he knows what, but he wants to tell me about it and can he have a smoke?
Yeah, sure. Tell me about it, man...wait a minute, I gotta work, here's a smoke, I gotta... "...run run run.... It is the least I can do. Smoking is good for the actual nuts. I am serious, they let them smoke in the nut houses because they just have to.
There are around 15000 homeless people in Oregon, they seem to know how to track it all, let us just go ahead on and see about the deal, the real deal, assistance of a lifelong lasting nature for the chronically mentally ill, do not leave them to wander, they die if you don't help them, train and then hire people that want to know how to assist someone with maintaining a decent living. Train them well and help them grow. These people are here right now, they want to help, we need a organizer and another government program
Living in the street is no cakewalk, I can see that. It is, however, easy to get off the street. You have to change though, stop getting high for a minute at least, get sober, and look around again, with a counselor there when you wake up...and this is the expensive part, addicts almost always "relapse" and now, harm reduction says to let them substitute other clinical drugs like methadone and now, Subutex along with counseling and some rules to follow.
If they can do it, great. If they won't, just fucking won't, ...well...stop helping them at all, no more coming to town for a meal at the mission. Go straight to detox, no one can get bounced out of detox, no 86s, provide the resources necessary to keep even the craziest safe until the case can be assessed and the denizen straightened out. Do not, do not, release people into the street to care for themselves anymore, do not do it. Put them somewhere, no excuses and no more excuses
They run if you yell at them, they are only as dangerous as the state of their mental health, right then, anything can happen to or around them, the alert is on high at all times, looking for something, anything of maybe value, are they facing mortal danger from the enemy and his beasts over in produce, he's a quarter short for a LOCO malt liquor but it's 7:03 so he is on time, no alcohol before 7am can be sold..... if it shines, get it, the feeling I get from most of them, the truly mad wanderers, the vibe, is Frenzy, just out of line, untuned to our channel, he is on a different frequency altogether, collision course in sneakers and a torn t-shirt. They smell like fear, they are afraid of something.
The "new" stuff is nasty, speed and cheap wine is the end of it all now, get down to there and you have to stop. It is the bottom, it's a habit, a garbage habit. I see It as It comes at me in a couple of ways, It always has Its hand out, It is always grinning and It says "Hey, Bro", It does not sleep well, making It irritable and unseemly... look at those fucking shoes!! What is that, in the bag, what is it, leave it outside....?
YOW!! (the Zippy wail)
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The dudes hanging out are not "road dogs", they are not travelers going over mountain passes in the Alps on the bus with everyone else, walking everywhere, looking around, taking it in, finding the good places to stay, safe and legal that's not the aim of these guys. I think they just need .......and more***@##$%^^)plus half again as much+++++then put another pinch of%^%^%^should do &*^%
jeez...I can really get going on this, the criminal aspect is ours for leaving them to their own devices, they don't croak fast enough, and they suffer like mother fuckers
so
what do we get for that?
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