Thursday, September 24, 2009

Someone's Got To

I couldn't make this up. I'll bet you couldn't either. It is just beyond me to ever conceive of this. I found it on Post Secret, so somebody did make it up, perhaps even commited this act. I loved the postcard so much I wrote it as a poem. This act against the Gideon Bible is surely one of the ultimates in underground resistance, the sort of thing hippies loved to do. It is nearly perfect in its peacefulness. I don't care that I stole the idea. Stealing the idea (but not the form) is technically legal. Stealing the idea also is an underground act. Everything I am builds on the fact that for six years I was a hippie in one or another form. In 1966 this die was cast. In 1973 I was forced by circumstance to go underground. I began training up in things like careers and marriages. Even so it took eight more years until I bought a house. My heart still delights in things hip.

Someone's Got To

I go on long trips,
stay in hotels with nothing
to do, but pull out
Gideon's Bible
and draw naked people where
I can find the space
for them. Then I list
the pages on the cover
page to help others.

February 13, 2009 4:16 PM

16 comments:

  1. Not everyone can draw well enough. But this person's contribution to humanity is actually legitimate.

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  2. I'm smiling at the picture of you sitting there, looking around, furtively drawing...

    Isn't if funny that you are still an underground hippie. You should see how respectable I look. I'm really still swinging my hair and sashaying along in hot pants! ;-D

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  3. Michelle, I hope you get your time off. Maybe you can engage in secret revolutionary acts.

    Techno, yes, exactly.

    Karen, I wouldn't be furtively drawing in my motel room. I am not that paranoid unless I have been under stress and eaten lots of speed for many days. I haven't done anything like that for decades. And if it was me it would be designs other than naked people probably.

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  4. Why someone comes into alien territory and then leaves an enigmatic but probably negative comment is beyond me. Why on earth spend the time and energy?

    I try to apply the "loser" comment personally and don't quite know how to fit it in, would need a lot more information. If it applies from the conservative Christian base to the state of my salvation, then there is no question. :) I certainly am not saved in the Southern Baptist sense.

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  5. Yes, indeed! I can picture you hippie...lover of all things hip. Peace Bro, and by the way, I got hips...and I ain't lovin' them. Check ebay tomorrow. You might get a deal.

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  6. Your subversive tendencies thrill me, sir. ^_^

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  7. You wouldn't know it from seein' the fat old man waddle down the street.

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  8. Oh yeah....oh so lovable SB......

    grrrrrrr

    I wouldn't be so secretive either :)

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  9. I just wanna know, when you draw breasts do they look like pancakes with dead flies in the middle? I'm just sayin' in grade five, about the last time I saw a nudey picture, that's about what they looked like.

    (And why do I hear Beevis and Butthead in my head? Maybe the negative energy comment thingamabobby.)

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  10. And why is it that Beavis and Butthead hit the ball 400 yards straight down my humor fairway. I am not sure they putt very well, though.

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  11. Ghost, I am not sure that picture is to the Lovable Southern Baptist's taste. To me, however, it tastes like strawberry with a hint of chili pepper behind it.

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The chicken crossed the road. That's poultry in motion.


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