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- From: sabbott@nmsu.edu (SDA)
- Subject: Recollections of LL and the joy of being an American VI
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.003346.29464@nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: WHorshipers of Lady LibertY (WHoLLY)
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:33:46 GMT
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- I went down to the demonstration, to get my fair share of a puce candy
- thrown out by smiling women who were there to encourage our youthful
- illusion of standing up for rights we cared not for.
-
- My conspiratorial ally was sitting in the passengers seat of the
- Triumph casting out auto-aspersions:
-
- "This car sure makes a lot of noise...."
-
- "How come the headlights don't work???"
-
- "Bet you can't beat that plymouth horizon...."
-
- We pulled into the parking lot just as the crowd was being mowed down
- by men in golf carts, rotating knives mounted on their bumpers.
-
- Then the hellish rain began: squirrels dropping from the cloudless
- sky like the practiced bombs of WWII pilots bent on revenge. Little
- rodent bodies smashing through car roofs, women screaming in
- hysteria, grown men weeping openly.
-
- The Triumph began to get up a head of steam as we shovelled some
- of the ebony anthracite into its boiler.
-
- "Do you think we'll make it?" The answer was already clear.
-
- The Triumph's tyres scrambled for purchase on the blood-slicked
- pavement. The carcass of a particularly large, grey squirrel began
- roasting on the hood, fur flying out in great tufts from the
- steam-parched hide. Those foolish enough to turn on their windshield
- wipers to clear away the lifeless rodents were rewarded with
- hopelessly smeared windows as nascent clots coagulated in the safety
- glass concavities, their wipers jutting out at crazed angles like the
- broken wings of finches.
-
- The only sounds were the roar of the Triumph's engine and the dull
- thuds of squirrels in wheelwells as we gathered momentum and tore away
- from the panicked crowd. The roasting squirrel slid off the hood,
- evidently done.
-
- The Triumph knew precisely where to go. We were hurtling unerringly
- toward the only possible port in this raging storm of mayhem and naked
- terror. Through the thick rain of hapless squirrels we could finally
- see our destination, shining coppery green through the fog of brown
- and grey. Sweet sanctuary, Lady Liberty.
-
- I glanced at my travelling companion, his normally phlegmatic visage
- was openly grinning and laughing. I laughed too as we saw Lady
- Liberty clear the horizon, laughed until I realized that Lady Liberty
- must be possesed by me, only by me. A bolt of green green jealousy
- electrified my spine and murderous thoughts coarsed through my petty,
- diseased mind.
-
- We arrived.
-
- We got out of the car; my soon-to-be-dead friend stared up at the
- mighty form of Lady Liberty, while I rumaged in the boot on the
- pretense of finding a quart of oil. Seizing the rusty tyre iron,
- I sauntered over to the awestruck form of my friend and shoved
- the tapered end into the back of his head. He fell to the ground
- and I pushed the murderous tool all the way through his skull until
- his head was pinned in the dirt. I left his lanky body flopping in
- the dirt and ran to my true love . . . my only love . . . Lady Liberty.
-
- //sean:mark:ted//
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- \\\\\sean/////
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