House of Paine

a shop of my own

shops to shop

being an
introduction

to
 whither amerika's 
    shop keeper klass




Jeffersons 
remnants


   the ma and pa farm is
  down to the nubs

what we got left

 1.5 million ?

and of those
 how many are 
 hobbies ?

and
of those that aren't
how many are
dummy
functions 
of uncles
 spoils system

mere
pass thrus 

laundering
windows

for public money
 headed thru them
toward
the big agribiz oufits
 at either end 

and even 
then
 what few
 are not on steroids

didn't i read some where

150 thousand 
real biz
"farms"

could easily 
produce 
 what
the 1.5 million
produce now 

so much 
is 
the american  love
of
 the familly farm
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we tax chumps
are 
plunkin down 
billions every year 

for what amounts
to 
a rip off
santas village

a phoney
 feel good
speak easy
 front

where 
the back rooms
are full of
booze 
 whores 
and 
 further 
 forbidden 
  pleasures

 
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well lets broaden 
 our standards

drop em even
if 
we have to

how about
 ma and pa
commercial
enterprises
 as a whole ?


  the japs worship these stinkos

  what about uz ?

do we worship
these oldest living
 children 
of kommerce ?


now 
god only knows 

theres nothin
in the least bit 
 jeffersonial here

no 
these are 
not yeoman
 
of course not
they buy and sell
for a living
not grow or dig or
build

but maybe 
at least
they're 
Jacksonian

maybe they're
independent
 in Andys
more generous sense

BIG ENOUGH 
TO STAND UP

BUT TOO SMALL
ON THEIR OWN
TO KNOCK
 A LOTTA OTHER PEOPLE 
DOWN
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sure

 THEY'RE

MOSTLY

way way 
too craven 
fer ole jeff

i mean

the customer is always right?


but who's askin
fer his standards 


I 
for one 

will settle 
for
gainful

" self"
 employment

if 
there can't
be
the literal
jeffersonian
 self sufficiency 

at least...

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but even
 thiz 
thiz
 watered down 
version 
of independence

seems
 largely 
a  parlor trick

a thing of
 smoke and mirrors

i mean 
franchised proprietorships

thats risk shifting mostly 

the tower boyz
can look down
from on high 
and
chuckle
at the bizzy bizzy bizzy
suckers
tendin to their out croppings


shit
 in a lot a cases

the independent outlet
is  really just doin'
 piece work

 without
mister biggles
 having to keep track
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 speaking of museum conditions
which so far i haven't

i say 

 thank
 the good lord
 we ain't got
the same 
dedication 
to quaintness
in a jar
 the fuckin'
 japz' got 

jeeeesuuuzz

   what creepy shit
that creates

 time warp central

sur-real
fifties gas stations

captin' sazuki courageous
fishin smacks 
 
mermaid pearl divers..

geese fed by
lady fingers


what a fuckin 
freak show 

and the biggest shit act of all

they still keep 
7 samurai type
rice villages 
like a bunch of bee hives
 thousands
of em
al over 
 that tiny fuckin
 land area
of theirs
shit worse
then that phoney
plymouth plantation
gimmick
we run here in the commonwealth

fuck 
they're 
still put 
in the shoots 
one by one
shit
think of all 
those
 tiny tiny  
dimpled
 handfuls
==============

bufuck

gang a mine 

freedom 
ain't just
a really swell idea
you can count on 

it ain't 
hangin
 from a sky hook


no no no no no  

our religion
 of freedom
needs 
a material base
to prosper

even if
 its just
a fuckin
bunch of
nit wits
doin '
the 
"  store
 of ones own "
thing 


that's why
we got to keep
 em cookin'
keep the smoke
comin out of their chimney

that iz 
if  we
 wanta keep
the faith
 alive 


if ya want
to keep
freedom around

you got to keep
producin'
enough
 proper
 human heads
 to carry it around in 
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i mean
face the brutal facts

 philip marlowe
don't grow
to ripeness
on a corporate tree
 
never did 
never will

sure guyz
 may fall out
the window
of one
 of
them big outfits
but
 to  morph
into  a Marlowe
 TAKES
SOME SERIOUS
" one off" TIME 

NO KOPORATE
 kulture 

CAN  grow
 HIS LIKES

SHIT 
THERE YA GO

 take
even the very  terms
we use 

take
 the expression

"one off "

fuck
 we had to
 import that even

shit
we've moved so far
 down stream

from
 one man 
one shop commerce

we got to
 snatch up
brit shit

just so 
we can
 keep talkin 
about it
and know what 
we all mean 

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in some senses 
sure we still worship shopkeepers

for christ's sake 
the whole burger
phoney
 we the people
 edifice
ultimately 
 stands
on suck clay hoves

thats what we mean
by
 the religion of freedom

 christian crusoe and family 

butfuck folks

they got 
no plow no cow
no...

but but 

no
all they got
is a  day dream

" some time
i'd like to open
a  shop 
of my own..."

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but  some dreams 
got to come true

are 
the" real things"
 thriving ?

ma wheres pa ?

is he still keepin shop ?

I mean

 outside 
the chambers of fantasy

outside of where
 abe lincoln
frees the slaves
 and
 the easter bunny 
shits painted eggs 


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clearly 
as a 4th generation 
shop keeper myself 

tryin to remount 
myself

the obligation
 is apon me 

here at the house

to hold up 
the side
 as it were

and so 
accordingly

I shall look in to this:
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whither amerika's
man to man
 shop keeping ?

at least 
now and again
I'LL DROP A GEM 
OR TWO

BIT BY BIT 

as the mood so moves

and post em all 
 
here's an openner

MAYBE EVEN FOR 
fer next time 
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 FILL ER UP 

   i love  gas stations
 with real workin'  garages..... 
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