I'd put on a different face but I only got this one. Somewhere the sun
shines through a piece of broken glass and starts a fire. Lemmings swarm
out of the sea on a distant beach after an invigorating swim. Dolphins sprout
thumbs and recite verse. Peoples attention was drawn for a moment, then
it was back to the slaughter and sucking the electronic teat.... looking
for a short-cut to hell. Who said raisin-brained dinosaurs are extinct.
Man verses nature? The flea conquers the elephant.
Purple stones fall from the sky in a particular northern Mexico desert,
only at night. The ape-girl crouches on a bamboo step in a steamy Borneo
jungle. A fat man in a jogging suit drives his cadillac to the mailbox.
The Indians have no word for 'wilderness'. Fashion is a premeditated plan
to make us all look ridiculous...and it works. People are tripping over
each other in an attempt to be next in line to trade-in their brain for
a soggy sack of boogers. Pop music in any language is pablum; it is obsequeousness
with an attitude. If the general public knew anything about the arts they
wouldn't buy this crap. They would demand better crap! Agents are the frame
around the artist; credability by association. Somewhere in California a
four-year-old is playing with his fathers loaded handgun. Drooling polititians
sharpen their flensing knives, pausing only to kiss babies (22 yrs. old,
female, HUGE breasts). Bureaucrats brush-up on job security skills. John
Q. Public is bent over and given a thorough lube job. Hear the steel wheels
of Washington roll. Is that flag waving good-bye...or is it signaling for
help? Gadget freaks parade their purchases. Steroid stuffers flex their
buff bods to a bouncy beat. A Minitaur gores a gorgeous guy and gets away.
People in the Tri-state area start smiling for no apparent reason. Specialists
are flown in. Down in a gully behind the High School, a weird naked woman
saws the horn off a unicorn. At this very moment in over ten thousand locations,
sweat is breaking out on the foreheads of men who use Grecian formula. In
those same locations, at the same time, hysterical dogs convulse with laughter.
The public is shocked at the news that the presidential dogs' now famous
book may not have actually been penned by Millie the dog. The president
declares "there's no conclusive evidence". Elsewhere an arguement
breaks out over "anti-deconstructionism" in music. People across
America are being killed for their jackets and sneakers. On the dark side
of the T.V. dial, evangelists test their audience/constituants/congregation's
collective gullability. In a bar down the street, they're hosing down bimbos
in T-shirts. Wild dogs roam the night on suburban streets. Elsewhere plans
are laid down to dismantle nature. Meanwhile nature is dismantling previously
made plans. Another skunk makes a nocturnal suicide road-crossing. In a
surgical suite in a big city hospital, a patient's bowels unexpectedly explode
during an operation. A swarm of monkeys enter a small African village destroying
property and attacking people. In Chicago, a man is run over by his own
car. A New Jersey woman is strangled to death by her washing machine. On
another continent, at that very moment, a boy draws a circle around himself
in the dirt. He immediately steps out of it.
Way Out West © 1993 Martin Scherer. E-mail: mscherer@tesserak.net