hey as a 25 year marketeer
i know from urgency
"today may already be too late ..."
but shit
chinese fire drill effects
have a very sharp drop off
cause they're
just that
one more phony last days trumpet blast
immediate calls to urgent action
whooped up
on transparent mo jo
please ....
===================================
i remember a plp march
in a mixed area of brooklyn
it was deep in the heart
of
the nasty Ford recession of 75
we went that day
thru streets
much like
the one
travolta struts down
in that fab pair of boots
in saturday nite fever
there was maybe 30 of us
and all along the line of march
we're doin "a rollin soap box" gig
doin a fly thru
agitation rev up
for this particular
" community "
three bull horns 30 mouths and 60 feet
and we had
this giant wooly man -mouth
named nicky kapadoopolus
or something
out front
running the lead bull horn
and did he have
as shameless a side walk bellow
as i've ever encountered
but hey
though the streets were full
and
despite
"sharpening objective conditions "
and
despite us
firing off
all our slogan slingin fire power
that day
on these particular
mean streets
of brooklyn
even
though
they looked
heavy on
rainbow type toilin folks
in other words
despite being
true
prime and primed
"worker" streets
as we passed
all those
about us
remained
as placid
as cooling soup
but that nicky
man
he still
let it all fly out
and
i guess
why the fuck not
remember?
"we're red
we're fed
so what
if the deal is dead......"
at any rate
after
oh 8 or 10 blocks
of this agitation
"stranger then friction" shit
nick starts cranking it up
till ... he's blowin
very hard
" and and
inflation
inflation is sky rocketing
sky rocketing
its its cutting wages in .. in ..ah
.. ah in half
in half
for god sake
half already
where's next ...?
some of you're gonna starve
do you hear me.... starve
brothers and sisters
the boss is
cuttin your wages ah ....to zero "
but seems
despite the sobering nature of his alarm
nada....
he must have been operating
on too weird
a set of wave lenghts
or something
cause
that community
that day
sure as hell
didn't groove to his get down ...
not one fuckin bit
i remember him blasting
the following alert
right directly from 6 inches awy
into
one baldish gents
roman nosed face
" and and
the boss is layin u off too brother
maybe even tommorrow chum
racist lay offs are happenin everywhere
they',re hittin every one
blacks women sicilians .."
right there bingo
he put his bull's
business end
3 inches closer to the guys nose
" yes sicilians too my friend "
then sweeping it away and up into the air again
doubling up the amp
" just you wait
who knows who's next .
brothers and sisters
its so bad out here these days ...
don't call it
unemployment
don't pretend its just
joblessness
no folks
believe us ..
hell itself
is about to erupt
right here
under our feet .....
sure the bosses stooges
say the unemployment rate
will peak soon
at ah ..... 33 %
33% ?
who's shittin who here ?
my people
listen to us
we have entered
the crisis of the century
the last crisis
the judgement day
we will all be thrown not just
out of work
but out of windows
they'll kill us all
cut us up
for army meat
no you fools
no
we aren't riding our way
out of this one
not this one no way
without a fight to the death
without a texas death cage
throat cuttin finish
them or uz
not unless we smash these vampire bosses
and liberate their torture chamber now
hell for all any of us can tell
it may already be
too late
way to late "
even though nick had gone
rather seriously off script
and its possible
the chromium plate
in uncle milty's skull
might of rattlin
during nicks final high c
even
all the way back
at party hq
in union square
but hey
that day
it was still no dice
seems
the passer -by habs
only looked away
or laughed
or coughed
their glaze their daze their maze
whatever
kept em on the profit milkin rails
it all remained un broken un dispersed un escaped
only the occasional
stray rogue
old white man
seeemed
distressed by our plowing
thru them
maybe they remembered
the real thing
no
surely they remembered
the real thing ....
when after a too brief interval
we got to our
"stop"
nick only had
one last plantively tinged
bark left in him ......
" god damn it folks
are ya just gonna
take all this
shit slide
lying down? "
that day
apparently they were
Posted by pinky at May 25, 2005 07:42 AM
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