Some of the kids were smokin grass and others had red swollen, burnt, beaten, assess, & twixt between the two cliques were kids who had some, just some mind you, respect for self and authority as they had not yet learned to really fuckin detest and deny their parents and themselves for that matter. Same rules applied to us then (xcept for paddlings which were probably somehow an asset) but something happened between then and now: Our leaders & their tv cameras stopped being secret in their lies and deception and greed for blood and money and blood money and started legislating it legalized to lie and cheat and fuck-over and steal their asses off and just do it all above-board ~~ and kids, slackers that they can be, are NOT stupid, nope, when observing the machinations of those moving and shaking things around them. We’ve allowed trends that shape us to be shifted so piss-poorly. & now the David’s of the world don’t even feel like (touring) album music is a worthy [*personal] human pursuit

anymore. Maybe because, like any diligent dad in this brave new world created in the image of beancounters & waterboarders, he can’t imagine not being @home when his boy leaves for school & then again when he gets back, to communicate & laugh & have a catch; get a good idea where the door meets the latch and all that fathering stuff in this our horrendously mucked up hopeful 21st Century dollar-people machine. Try to keep the fugly nasty tarry dim substances from slippin’off society & stickin’to his progeny.

well...so be it then, I guess

* Individual. …that is to say, I don’t really have any clue as to the truths vis-à-vis this notion, it’s just an opinion, a guess, and not even all that important a thought, …but it’s a thought that went out on the misinformation superhighway __just because