Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:17:22 -0500
Subject: Re: Now it's time to say good-bye...




On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:40:05 -0500 danceswithcarp
<dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us> writes:
> So, as said Tom Joad in "The Grapes Of Wrath,"
> 
> "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us 
> cringe 
> an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus 
> Christ, 
> Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency 
> is by 
> takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
> 
> And our decency is all that we got.

Maybe so.

But "maybe like Casy says, a fella ain't got a soul of his own, but on'y
a piece of a big one. ... I'll be ever'where—wherever you look."   

So maybe you ain't leaving us Mr. Carpo.    And my good friend, Samuel
Clemons once wrote some new verses to that song the title of the book is
taken from:

Battle Hymn of the Republic (Brought Down to Date)(1900?) Mark Twain
 

Mine eyes have seen the orgy of the launching of the Sword; 
He is searching out the hoardings where the stranger's wealth is stored; 
He hath loosed his fateful lightnings, and with woe and death has scored;
his lust is marching on. 
 

I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; 
They have builded him an altar in the Eastern dews and damps; 
I have read his doomful mission by the dim and flaring lamps -- 
His night is marching on. 
 

I have read his bandit gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: 
"As ye deal with my pretensions, so with you my wrath shall deal; 
Let the faithless son of Freedom crush the patriot with his heel; 
Lo, Greed is marching on!" 
 

We have legalized the strumpet and are guarding her retreat;* 
Greed is seeking out commercial souls before his judgement seat; 
O, be swift, ye clods, to answer him! be jubilant my feet! 
Our god is marching on! 
 

In a sordid slime harmonious Greed was born in yonder ditch, 
With a longing in his bosom -- and for others' goods an itch. 
As Christ died to make men holy, let men die to make us rich -- 
Our god is marching on. 



Yupyupyupyup.  We'll ALL be e'rywhere anybody looks.

So long carpo, it was good to know ye.


Hooten Hollars
President, 
South Rogers Street Trailer Court Tenant Association

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