March 04, 2004

the axis of knievel




  HAITI ZIMBABWE VENEZUELA

THESE ARE  COUNTRIES
NOW TRYING
TO SURVIVE
LIVING UNDER THE YOKE
OF KNIEVEL REGIMES

MUGABE CHAVEZ ARISTIDE

TRYING TO SURVIVE
UNDER
STUNT JUMPERS

TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING

JUMPING THEIR COUNTRIES
BACK AND FORTH
OVER THE IMPERIAL ABYSS




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  EVIL KNIEVEL
WAS THE GREATEST STUNT JUMPER
OF THE 60S AND 70S

  HE'D JUMP OVER
ANYTHING FOR A FEW BUCK


every fucking thing
from an endless
row of   burning
london buses
to 500
red hot
Vegas dance girls
hangin
from barber poles

didn't matter

he was ready to jump

  rows and rows
he jumped
longer and longer
always topping himself

always on a motocycle
always ramp to ramp

just vrooom vrooom vroom
up over and down

after about
twenty years of that shit

good old  EVIL
  wakes up
one  day
with
a cycle
two tires short
of road ready

less then
50 bucks
in his pants

a red white and blue
star studded
helmet

and
more busted
up hard body parts
then
you'd find at crab leg contest

so what he do ?


well old EVIL
he tied rockets
to his cycle
and tried jumping canyons

hard way
to make the mortgage

enit hoss

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mugabe chavez and
aristide

each one of them
  is trying their luck
over canyons too

wider and wider canyons

like ole evil
   they gotta know
they  can't keep this up
for ever

they got a choice

either
quit jumpin
repent
sell the farm back
to wall street

or
choice two

keep jumpin
keep  fuck youing
washington

and end up
busted to pieces
on the rocks below

terrible fact of life

try
that reckless
shit
while at the helm
of some pipsqueak state
and
you're goin to end up
splatter

the list is long
and ugly


Arbentz
Mosadegh
ortega
allende
sihanouk
sukarno
lumumba
Nkrumah
on and on


( even
a couple of  leaders
real nice fair players
the type that
could be e heroes to college kids
who's names
I'm too lazy to look up )



the imperial abyss
  defy at your own risk
cause it only yawns
wider and wider every jump


eventually
whammo
GOOOOO BYE SENIORA
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that is unless
you got a workable net

a workable  net ?

and what pray tell
is a workable
fucking  net
made of ?
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well let's see

maybe
a party apparatus
with deep class roots

yes but thats not
sufficient

a ruthless
forcing forward
of the klass struggle

yes
but again not enough
in fact prone
to wider canyonizations
and thus quicker climax crashing

a willingness to abrogate
personal liberties

yes always a time extender
but again....

relatively vast resources
the kaps will buy off ya
even if you fuck with em  ?

barely yes
might just
up their topple efforts

o k
the sky hook blanket
explanation

the
unshakeable support
of the bulk of the toiling masses ?

nope don't be romantically
stupid
sky hook or no sky hook
nothing is unshakeable
least of all toiling masses

well then fucking what?

what
in todays driving
makes
anti- imperialism
in one country
viable ?

good question

to be continued
Posted by pinky at March 4, 2004 04:43 PM
nice post -- clarifies my suspicions... tough cliffhanger to work your way out of, though? No less than a Knievel yourself... btw, what's Haiti got inna way of resources?

Posted by: sam at March 4, 2004 04:48 PM

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