October 28, 2004

the proprietary illusion


  i love phillip marlowe 


 jacket off 
  feet up on his desk
    slapping his palm 
with a letter openner

looking over
  at the latest
walk in  client
as she  recrosses her legs .....

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   we all
 really 
don't want to be 
just

 " the continental op" 

some guy 
working for an agency

 getting 
ordered about 
from one cuff up
 to another 

so since we mostly are
secret dreamers
reveling in 
 my own shop some day 
 virtual realities  

what else 
could ya expect

we go to work 
every day 
for pinkertton brothers
cloudy headed
but docile 
cause 
we keep alive
the dream-ream 
of marlowizing ourselves

"down the road"
 -------------------------------------

needless to say
this opiate 
       of the asses 
works 
         for "the man"
just fine 

in fact so fine
on occasion
if its worth it to him 

he'll go you 
one better

and rig up
an extra special 
just for you 
  simulated
 personal 
say no more
you AM 
your own man 
very original
 and unique 
ULTRA  private
stew pot dome
 to cook crepe and crap in
 for his
and hiz ilks 
 B to B
 delectations 


 get it?


maybe el profito grande 

has an angle ....

 presto chango

exit 
  " mr staff infection"

enter

" free klass   double x Ranger "
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 to me 
 the ever so 
           pinky p 

  where thiz whole
     free class thing 
        gets fucked
      is 
    the 5 out of 7 shot
                  " bad trip" 
                         waitin for
                            most of ya 
                out there
once yer all alone 
              makin it all up  direct 
                                      for the market  
 --------------------------------------------------    
    " whats an honest man's freedom 
                             amount tothese dayz  ?
   well kidz 
           nothin
      nope
               its  just 
some other guys
           useful illusion
          if he can keep you workin
by sponsoring your dreams come true

he will
             welcome to america
            where   
              our   yeomanship's 
                             lost illusions
are nothin more then  a mirage 
on the ever retreating horizon 
                              aahh what money there is for a few big shotz
  in the      illusions 
                of lost  yeomanship"
                                         fred allen  1947

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 hey if you're 

"on contract"

guess  what 
free bean 
you're really
   just eating 
       your own  nut 
---------------------------------------

you still gotta sell yourself 

thru your "services'

still gotta 
to be a solitary soul
 proffered 
and bought
over and over 

its all 

"at your own risk"

 no fall back

only the chance
of a hideous  fall forward 

face first 

and then its straight 
back 
into a staff-assed
bent over  position

" ok bob
why don't ya 
wipe the egg off 
REPORT IN HERE TOMORROW 
  AND 
  RE-assume the job position "
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  HISTORY LESSONS UNLEARNED 
 
we all know 

old tall red headed and wise 
thomas Jefferson's
                 notion of a republic 
 was built primarily
                out of  yeoman

right?


guess what 
Jeff 
didn't have u types
in mind  

he 
was writing about
a klass
with  a natural independence 

a klass who's way of life
was firmly based on 
a fall back 
household self sufficiency

  "need"
  for outside products existed 
sure
and sure that  
 ment
a need for  cash crop(s)
 

but unlike youzzles 

they produced 
 uniform outputs 

product(s)
 fully commoditzed 

" wheats wheat milks milk 
       take it or leave it pal "

  nature's stuff
 
  no need 
for shopkeeperish 
commercial servility 

no need 

pitch puffery

 "closer" chicanary

the lewd jig saw 
just this side 
 of fraud 

 no fucking 
nail biting

no  collecting
 payment
or 
anguished jittery 
 wails 
of "whither my customers"

no need of any 
 slobbering 
coin counts 


  all that mraket hugger mugger

 fuck it

need a boost

go out the farm house door 

 and watch 
   one's own 
crops and critters 
prospering 
in the fresh air 
  in a gentle breeze
 under a  golden  sunlight 

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Posted by pinky at October 28, 2004 04:21 AM

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