July 31, 2004

i can hear the jacksonians howl


  god what must
 those long dead  cadre
 of old hickory's  think

 when they look down
and see 
what a senseless tinsel toss
their contrivance has turned into 

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  imagine 


a contrivance intended
originally 
to honor 
both the people 
and their greatest living  hero

  is now 

what?

a half time show

running
between" reality"  games 
and 
the nightlylocal
pipeorgan
tooting out
the latest
 up to the instant
street killing
home invasion
ten  car craack up 
 and 
tenament fire
 
a  one hour 
half time show 

without even
 a bared breast  
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jesus christ  almighty

back 175 years ago 

 the great hero's men 

  cooked up 
this party convention thing


as a gathering to do
the business of politics
not to merely show
its results

as a people's 
rough and ready moment 
to  yes indeed
yaa hoo their leader 
but 
 to really  speak their piece too


and thru more then 100 years
it did indeed produce this result

thru  countless scenes of pure jack assery 
on occasion 
came moments 
of authentic convergence 

convergence 
out of chaos

a  splendid 
momentary  unification 
of the  nation's majority

the true democracy  
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the originators
sold the convention thing
as 
the only 
possible  way to  end 

the nasty 40 year long 
monopoly on 
 presidential  choice
by 
the " barred door juntos"

by the phoney
 high toned 
hihg collar 
hush hush 
whisper whisper 
deliberators

the convention of a party
was a blow struck 
to end 
the stale old trayful   
of 
corrupt bargains
like '24 
 cut 
 to order
around  
rosewood tables
and 
heavily padded
sofas

" genteel treachery"


that was what 
caucus room  politics 
had become  by then

so they
his followers 
 thanks to jackson 
and his tidal wave like force

just
" let her rip"

let the plain folks
 get together
 
right there
in the open 
 
out where the world could
see and  hear it all

 
decide in public
 under the eye 
of their fellow americans 

not closeted 
like a huddling 
pack of
 fucking 
papists cardinals 

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and so for that hundred years 
the convention was a beautiful
 new set up

the they killed the 2/3 's rule and.....


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okay 
sure it was in large part
 pure show

but the script was not agreed apon 
ahead of time

real factions contended 
openly
right there before hostile  press yes

it was a real box 
a real shit sling
sure some 
was  studio staged

but not all 

and 
so when they wanted somebody 
agrred on somebody 
it meant they
really  wanted him

it had its fakery
whale bone big fakery
 but
 it had an unswampable  
measure of candor too 

if not a  full bore
 peoples thing 

then at least 
some real blows 
got exchanged 

even 40 years ago
 this was still true
on planks
 if not candidates

now...

we get the unity of the rock concert 

this one felt like
they'd just selected 
  the head pall bearer
and wanted us to think
 it was time for  a fiesta 

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 just look

what a fucking 
 tv snack  table
 pee-raid
its become


  but then i'm such a fool

 who cares anyway

fuck

 if  you already know 
the foods gonna  suck 

the hell with
 how good the service is 

---------------------------------

yep yep yep 

 you can pull the jack ass lever
 as often as you want 
cowpokes

you won't 
get  it  to spin up 
 a  jackson 
not anymore 

no madame

not a one 

the  old  long eared 
bandito  machine 

god love it 

after 176 years 

maybe it can
 steal back 
 an election 

maybe two

but it 
has plum 
run out of

 general  jacksons


 

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 p.s.

 heres a small dilation on same:

 i wrote this  earlier and may well hack it off
and 
leave just the above blubbering


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 after a smooth sail for 3 months 
is this all there is
to the donkeys kick ?


 candle face kerry

the  bark covered
 former kid- warrior 

the side bar hero 

 built out of press stunts
 and sharp elbows

 a  walking tree trunk 
waving a limb at uz now and again
beyween ed muskylike
 stentorianisms
and
now rifgt there 
 next to him 
this horrendously bumptuous
 new south corn syrup schister 


fuck check out that 
 candy cane smile 


the ass 
just keeps 
grinning  away
like 
squirel nutkin 

ok  ok ok
so i got a small tingle
out of that michigan governess 
no yor right not small
large 
a large tingle out of her
and we got mitt the twit 

and 
what can one say  
about  that 
 pettycoat junction 
neeghing and trip tropping 
we saw  
out of the board stiff kandidate's 
very own pair of  daughters


aahhhh
the lovely 
blinkered   devoted 
   sharp nosed  young fillees 

weren't they 
so full of .....    

 then again fuck it 

after all 
 they get to ride on pappa's  lap 

we on the other hand
we  get  to ride
hangin on to the underside of  his wagon 

and thats 
if we're lucky 

and 
by the way freakos
where's he takin uz ?

try on this

 tight budgets 
and
 prudent 
overseas deployments 

thats  where 
he's plannin to take uz
for the fuckin love of might!
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so well.....
what can i say

since you never asked 
i should shut up right

won't happen!


fuck you 

long live old hickory


sure he kilt his share of red sticks
owned 150 africans 

hell the man done his dirties

 more then his share prolly 

but
 he mowed  up a few red coats
 too as i recall 

and god damn it
 that man 
to his toe nails
believed in
the " popular majority
                must rule the state "


and he didn't need towrap himself an anything
the flag
the bloody shirt
 not even the union 

nope
cause everyone knew 
he was these things 

with the General
it was always  simple 

" I'LL lead 
you follow"


AND 
the god damn bastard
 was tougher even then he looked 
and
 as ass kickin proud 
and 
as unbendingly his own fucking prickheaded man  
as The Almighty 
 ever dared  create 

 rest in peace 
king  ANDREW


you 
were 
are 
and
 will always
 remain

a nation's hero 

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Posted by pinky at July 31, 2004 10:53 AM
what patent crap you cry baby belly jiggler let me hook ya up with my pally wally that latent butt admiral ken burns and heres a working title free ofobligation " the great rubarb " presidential conventions in american memory descend the staircase from locofoco to just plain loco then on to pure hoako and finally even less then cocoa

Posted by: meat me at August 1, 2004 03:53 AM

thanx pinky for at least full throttle loving something we regular sorts can happily call american

Posted by: green jean at August 1, 2004 05:27 AM

old hickory is forgiven george bush ain't

Posted by: chief bender at August 8, 2004 03:17 AM

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