Does New Mayor=New Day? Or same old Day Gift Wrapped in Maybe its BART across the Bay time.
new sounding slogans.
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by Joe B. While walking down the street to buy a tall bottle of Crystal Geyser water I see a small, black,dirt and rust encrusted grime. Curious,I lift the tilted lid saying aloud "this little,bullet shaped Bar-b-Q grill if cleaned, emptied could be useful." Bought the water, re-crossed the street walking back to my job. Passing by nothing registered that is the dirty little grill is gone as I looked back seeing an after image memory of what wasn’t there. Someone either the owner or persons unknown picked up to throw out or maybe reuse. It tells me to keep my thoughts to myself in case I wanted to rescue the thing for my own use. Just as with today’s swearing of Mayor Elect Gavin Newsom. He is supposedly bringing in a new era of change,help not harm homeless,working poor individuals and families with fingerprinting, shelter-payer program and other assorted help-the- poor solutions. People have already been arrested near City Hall. I don’t know if this is incidental or the beginning of what’s really in store for we the have not folks in San Francisco. Add two sharpshooter’s on City Hall’s roof [is that a standard or a new crimp of post 911?] Its an ominous sign on his,[Newsom’s] inauguration day arrests begin to mar this special city wide occasion. I don’t want to think of being in some paramilitaries cross hair scope because of my lack of designer label’s. Is America, Rome reborn and the we are the Gaul’s if not original ancient German Barbarians at the gate? As history shows it wasn’t the Gaul’s sacking Imperial Rome but corruption of the most inner circle from highest God-Emperor,Senate to richest Patrician and merchant citizen brought the first City State Nation from its elevated heights to low fire and rubble not ordinary citizens and slaves, prostitutes who were honored vestal virgins before their elevation to Goddesses of Eros and Sacred Sex. Is Rome’s historic doom being repeated by America’s City of Lights then spreading across the country with poor folks being blamed for what so called leaders mistakes? Folks,you know facts abound now,I’m not the only one seeing history seemingly going backward or a retarded future as the highest office’s in our land go for temporary band aid fixes with outdated applied sciences. Its almost gone back to middle dark age where new emerging applied sciences can help us but fears, cost,and just old fashion mule headedness keeps us from moving forward delaying our better lives however I may have to wait for facts to say what I’m writing is true or just half baked rambling. I could be wrong as a former colleague and true reporter of facts Kaponda would say "Gather your facts before jumping to false conclusions." What invariably happens is after announcing my view without a shred of facts everyone laughs at ‘po Joe’s odd,warped observations. Then a couple of weeks or months later on radio, T.V.,or human source would repeat near word for word my suspicion’s then Kaponda,student interns and one of my employer’s look at me strangely like: Whatever readers believe or think tell me what’s really going on. 1448 Pine Street #205 Email: askjoe@poormagazine.org |