If there were no corruption, people wouldn't care so much about getting their own piece. Corruption is essential to a healthy capitalist society.
Author: johnbrandall
John Randall is a writer living in Missouri. His interests include camping, running, walking, cutting and burning wood, messing around with magnets, foraging, and listening to podcasts, many of them about baseball.
Question about death vs. dreams
Why is it that, when you're about to die, you have a dream-like experience? And when you are dreaming, and about to die, you wake up?
Calls on 9/11/2001
I got seven calls that day. Brook, 12:15 am. Dad at 8:57 am, which woke me up. "The terrorists are at work," he said. "You better take a look. It's pretty bad." He was stifling tears, sobs. Ray from work at 12:21p. Then again at 12:24p. He came over and we hit Shayne and talked … Continue reading Calls on 9/11/2001
Urbanity
If I can't achieve urbanity without money then fuck-it.
The Loop
I am AM in the PM. A bumper sticker. Sitting in car. It takes everything I've got, just to write a bit. Adam's mix CD is playing. Had a cigarette not so long. Bought a pack at that little in & out shop on the loop. Asked for a hard pack of camel lights. Guy … Continue reading The Loop
New Year’s Resolution
Not to justify my ends, but to end my justification.
Bowl Game
Every team for a ring,fish of different schools,either end of the country. My mother's birthday, my wife's;Christmas Eve, New Year's. Tires, roses, computers, and peaches:the things of our economy. Get me a beer outta the fridge, mon frer.I'll slam it back through the line. Is that chocolate not what you'd hoped?An interception in the endzone, … Continue reading Bowl Game
My World
You see my world is isolated.There is a wall at the edge.It is filled with tiny crevicesand to come here you must fit through them.But quite humorous it is that onlythe thin and weak can slip in.The large, muscular ones are left out. 9/5/1996
Differences
What are differences but hollow perceptions?Am I different, am I weird?I don't think so, but maybe others do.And why, I want to know!Because I'm reticent and like odd things?And who says my things are odd? I like them.All my life, people scorn me for playing on differences.But I didn't and I don't. So why is … Continue reading Differences
Birthday
Today celebrates the day of my birthseventeen years ago I came into this worldwhen I was young time seemed to go so slow. Einstein said that when people move fastertime ticks slower and slower such thatif one moved fast enough time would stop. So I figure that I must be going pretty slowbecause my life … Continue reading Birthday
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