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- From: grendel@canetoad.UUCP (Rage y Romance)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: figure it out for yourself, college boys
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <grendel.02w4@canetoad.UUCP>
- References: <1992Aug27.084608.27186@alembic.acs.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 00:29:32 EDT
- Organization: The Satellite of Love
- Lines: 94
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- In article <1992Aug27.084608.27186@alembic.acs.com> gypsy@alembic.acs.com (hippolyte) writes:
-
- <A whole bunch of cool stuff I would like to participate in, deleted>
-
- I have to tell a story that is sort of bizarre and not really anything
- about feminisim as much as it is about being fed up with bullshit.
-
- When I was really young and perpetually angry because I was REALLY
- FUCKING POOR I often couldn't sleep at night. I just didn't sleep
- that much; maybe 2 to 3 hours a night.
-
- So it's summer, in Brooklyn, N.Y. and at night it was 90 to 95 degrees
- and the rage poured out of me with my swet and the words "I've done
- nothing to deserve this." slammed through my head with every beat of
- my heart.
-
- It was so hot I used to lie on the floor in a goddamn LAKE of my own
- swet, listening to the noises from outside (lions and tigers and
- bears OH MY) because it was too hot to lie in bed without getting
- a rash from constantly twisting and turning trying to find a cool
- spot on the sheets.
-
- It's was a night like that when I heard this screaming.
- This shrill non-stop high pitch wail that would occassionally
- pause and just be replaced with this almost incomprehensible stream of
- begging. And you know, for one brief moment I thought it was actually
- in my head.
-
- I realize it's not. It's actually coming from outside.
- I get up and look out my window and I see this guy has this woman down in
- the middle of the street and is kicking her. He's got a hand full of
- her hair and is periodically kicking her in the face, sides, legs.
- He's not saying anything, he's just kicking her like she's not even
- made out of flesh.
-
- I see in his other hand he's holding a knife.
-
- Occassionally, he'll stop and stick her with it; quick and shallow
- like a bee sting.
-
- And then I realize she's screaming, "What have I done, what have I
- done". See that's why I thought it was in my head.
-
- I'm, maybe, 11 and my brain malfunctions, big time. I don't think to call
- the police, I don't think to wake my older siblings and ask them what to
- do. No, I run down stairs to the second floor of my house and I'm tearing
- around in my Mom's tool closet. I find a 2' long piece of 2 by 4 and I'm set.
-
- I unlock all the locks on my front door and when I through that last bolt,
- for one moment I see everything REAL clearly and I realize I'm standing in
- my underwear holding a stick and I'm 11 years old and I could die tonight.
- Then I'm thinking,"I'm human and I won't be anymore if I don't stop that
- womans screaming."
-
- I go out that door, I step on glass, I don't make a sound and I jog up
- to this motherfucker and t-off on him in the side so that I hear his
- ribs go CRACK! I'm so startled by the sound and of the sudden wail he
- lets out that I'm frozen and scared just for a moment.
-
- I get ready to swing again, but then I stop and let him get a look at me,
- I let him SEE me. See that I was some CHILD here to set him straight and
- then I caught him right across the mouth and sent him backward. POW.
-
- My hands were shaking so bad I dropped that 2 by 4 and ran back to my
- house; I could feel the glass then. I could feel man hands hurting from
- the force of the stick hitting that guy.
-
- I ran inside my house and NOW it occurs to me to call the cops.
- I had to repeat myself 3 times before they could understand me and
- when they asked who I was I just hung up. I looked out the window and
- could see the guy with a hand over his mouth trying to simultaneously
- hold his ribs and face together while trying to get away.
-
- I think back on that now and realize EVERYONE in my neighborhood COULD
- NOT have slept through that; the majority chose to ignore it.
-
- So, check it out t.b. attaboy is an asshole. Get ya 2 by 4 and show
- that asshole his posting to the wrong group.
-
- Only people who have the soul to be bizzarre, live bizzarre and love
- bizzarre get to be here.
-
- >yes, i'm a feminist. why do you fucking ask?
-
- yes, I'm a bizzarre humanist and I've STILL got my 2 by 4.
-
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