In The Mess

pstrong pHere we go, Its "C" Day.br //p pI have little say about it./p p/p/strong/p pDIV align="left" TABLE cellpadding="5"TR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TD/td/trTR VALIGN="TOP"TDTR VALIGN="TOP"TD pby Joe B./p pSaturday, Oct. 6, 2001 – 5:30 am. I’ve just finished taking a shower missing the 10am appointment at Poor Magazine. /p pMarket Street is not busy there’s always a few street folks around and a couple of tourists strolling down the street./p pFor breakfast sausages, three egg omelet, potatoes, and orange juice making me late ordering them at 9:15 am, eating them by 9:27 oh well, a guys gotta eat, it might be the only food eaten all day. /p pI’m late but not late enough or its cancelled, "darn it" Guess I’ll be at a table, sell some of the Magazines, give away free pamphlets, and explain the why’s ‘n how’s POOR Magazine’s birth by the Mother/Daughter team of Dee and Lisa Gray-Garcia./p pI really do like my Saturday and Wednesday’s off when I have actually nothing to do but work on stuff of my own./p pBrought water, comfortable shoes, tee-shirt, sweat shirt in case of a change of weather, bring a book, and some money to buy food or bag lunch also extra batteries for the taperecorder./p pSunday, Oct. 7, headed toward Portrero hill for a free Sunday meal./p p Glad I bought that $35 buspass because I didn’t feel like scrounging for a dollar or walking today. I go there, they had black eyed peas over rice so I gave my number to a woman almost finished with her first or second meal. /p pIt will be a long time before I buy another buspass unless someone sells it cheaper./p pI go to Food-Co, bought two tabloid newspapers, vegie burger,br / soap, and an American mug with the flag on it then looking on the bottom I see ‘MADE IN CHINA, now I don’t know if China is making money from these things or America is from a global economic perspective – I buy the cup anyway and get a few more for my mother, brother, and sister-in-law./p pI found my taperecorder which I thought lost in West Oakland that’s a relief./p p12:46 pm after lunch in Saint Anthony’s I find a plastic inhaler that contracts so by pressing the other end with spray inside makes it possible to more easily get contents into mouth, throat, and lungs quicker. Someone left it, forgot it, its mine now. Even though I walk, exercise, taking long walks, or sex to control my asthema (don’t knock it )sex works great, you just have to remain calm and … controlled is all. There are times when attacks happen when you least expect it, you wake up and you’re out of breath, or walking an it hits, sometimes being stressed out over keeping the place clean and neat so you don’t get thrown out or over what’s happening to family and friends far away can bring on an asthema attack, being around smoke, other people’s pet can set it off. Having an inhaler for emergencies is what I need sometimes and this is an opportunity I could not pass up./p pSo until my lungs regenerate into new healthy ones or clones of my own are available I’ll keep the inhaler given to me by an angel, or some mortal with too much on their mind too remember it.br //p pAbout 6:10 or 15 pm I turned on the tv the stations 7, 4, 9, and found out while I was eating lunch, the first airstrikes began in Afghanistan, dropping food also outside anti-protesters marched the length of Market Street. /p pMe and a employee of where I live stood on the sidewalk watching the procession move forward./p pOn the sidewalk were the ‘Love in or leave it ‘ contingent, we also have papers given to us. /p pI go back inside my building thinking "so far no clashes between war and anti war patriots because make no mistakes there patriots on both sides of this conflict all I can do is be balanced which will be difficult knowing people are going to die in this openly "secret war" Maybe some weird comic novel in the vein of the late Mr. Douglas Adams will help a little though I hope I have an 8th of his talent and humor.br / /ppHope this conflict does not last for years but if it does I’ve got my life to deal with too./p pMonday, Oct. 8, 2001, Columbus Day, 8:55 am. Market Street is less crowded, it might be like this for a long while./p pI’m not doing to much today, still trying to figure out how Capt. Christopher Columbus with backing from Queen Isabella of Spain gets lost, land in an uncharted place, see people greet them already living there and say they discovered the place?/p pAnother thing to ponder is a guy named "Americo Verspuci who tells tales about this new, fertile land of untold riches but has never set foot there and yet have his name? This could be the origin of our contradictions. Bye/p pbWhat do you think?br / /b/p/td/tr/td/tr/table/div/p