Tom Yossarian Joad
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Mon Apr-17-06 12:22 AM
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among the bricks
giving myself to the sand.
Back in Carolina.
Back in Carolina...
I remember.
Swimming in the creek.
Cutting vines to swing on.
Playing Tarzan with my friends.
I remember.
Before the air rushed out and the blinding heat as the screams from outside reverberated through my being into silence into peace.
I remember putting baseball cards in my spokes.
before Dad got pissed off. and put me in my place.
I remember this morning
telling me to make a people free telling me they expected fairness
While they tried to kill us
because their life was bad.
The sand is eating me now.
I keep feeding it
and she drinks as much as I can give her.
I came here for my one true love.
and she has left me here.
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Mon Apr-17-06 12:25 AM
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1. Are you trying to kill me with depression? |
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Mon Apr-17-06 12:27 AM
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2. I'm sorry. They only come out about every two weeks or so. |
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But when they come out, they gots to get outta me somehow.
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Mon Apr-17-06 12:28 AM
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Empathy is an inconvenient thing, isn't it?
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Mon Apr-17-06 02:58 AM
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8. You need to drink more |
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when you drink enough, you can't type.
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Mon Apr-17-06 03:01 AM
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Mon Apr-17-06 12:28 AM
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3. I remember swinging from old cypress trees out by Bonne Carre Spillway |
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Edited on Mon Apr-17-06 12:29 AM by Swamp Rat
in da swamp. Half-naked teenagers dangling from ropes until swinging out to the farthest point, and then 'SPASH'! - you're in the bayou. Old muscle cars, Ozzy's voice cracking through car speakers, beer bottles everywhere... :D
edit: and crawfish, and alligator sausage po-boys. :9
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Mon Apr-17-06 12:30 AM
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5. CSNY was playing while I swang on those vines. |
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Mon Apr-17-06 12:40 AM
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and especially CCR.... I was literally "Born on the Bayou!" :D
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Mon Apr-17-06 02:20 AM
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Thanks. Now Fogarty's gonna be running around my head all night.
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