HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008!

A Radio With Guts

it was on the 2nd floor on Coronado Street

I used to get drunk and throw the radio through the window

while it was playing, and, of course,

it would break the glass in the window

and the radio would sit there on the roof

still playing

and I'd tell my woman,

"Ah, what a marvelous radio!"

the next morning I'd take the window

off the hinges

and carry it down the street

to the glass man

who would put in another pane.

I kept throwing that radio through the window

each time I got drunk

and it would sit there on the roof

still playing-

a magic radio

a radio with guts,

and each morning I'd take the window

back to the glass man.

I don't remember how it ended exactly

though I do remember

we finally moved out.

there was a woman downstairs

who worked inthe garden in her bathing suit,

she really dug with that trowel

and she put her behind up in the air

and I used to sit in the window

and watch the sun shine all over that thing

while the music played.

-Charles Bukowski-

Happy New Year!

Out with the old and in with the new!

Time to put away the tinsel and ask yourselves, in the words of the late JFK's speechwriter, "ask what you can do for your country." I know, the truth is, not a whole helluva lot when change relies upon strength in numbers and that relies upon gleaning the truth from a corrput media and a kool-aid drunken, neo-lib/conservative journo pool which is, at best, asleep at the switch...a collective media with rabid tag-teams beholden to maintaining the status quo.

Hint: In the coming months ahead as big media consolidation, outsourcing (we're not talking about "the manufacturing" sector but the "high paying" jobs loserettes are pegged to), home foreclosures, disappearing dollar, disappearing paychecks and stock portfolios, disappearing FDA, disappearing CDC, disappearing solid infrastructures, disappearing affordable healthy food prices, in short, disappearing middle class --- this year,

ask what your fucking country can do for you

and who the hell these corporate shitheads are and their political enablers. Remember, in 2008

It's Not the Economy, Stupid. IT'S YOUR JOB!

So then, which will it be in 2008? Will this country work or settle for a new window, a new radio, or just another rear-end view?

-2Truthy