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: some guy came up to me last night and said
king kong NINJA: hey baby, here's how we can swing it
king kong NINJA: you can give me what i want
king kong NINJA: or i can give you what you don't want
J6Q9463: hahaha
J6Q9463: really?
king kong NINJA: i think it was a case of mistaken identity
king kong NINJA: but for a split second
king kong NINJA: i was hoping it wasn't
king kong NINJA: because just to be able to talk like that
king kong NINJA: must be so liberating
J6Q9463: what happened?
king kong NINJA: like to take things most people only watch on tv all seriously
J6Q9463: did he realize you werent who he was looking for?
king kong NINJA: he said i'm sorry man
king kong NINJA: i thought you were some dude i gave coke to
king kong NINJA: or pepsi he said
king kong NINJA: i guess that's some clandestine way of saying it
king kong NINJA: i was kind of hoping we'd have to fight
king kong NINJA: that's what i said
king kong NINJA: and he laughed
king kong NINJA: and asked if i wanted any pepsi
J6Q9463: haha
J6Q9463: wonderful
J6Q9463: where were you
king kong NINJA: you know san francisco?
king kong NINJA: because i could tell you
king kong NINJA: ohhh
king kong NINJA: you mean give me a literary description
so that anyone can know
well...downtown, blocks from the wharf
and broadway, which is a carousel circus every saturday night
with people ambling past each other like hungry ghosts from drink to drink
and there's stripjoints on every corner, all operated by the same chain i suppose
and every club probably has the same names for its girls
or at least one girl named envy or blossom in each
but down the street a couple of blocks
it's quieter
the way if you've ever had a family party
you can excuse yourself to the restroom and look at the dining table from the hallway
and it's bright and there's action, and you're not in it, but were once, and will return
i mean, there are still brothels here
but they aren't the gussied up ones
they've got private clientele, well dressed, polite, quick you have to ring the doorbell most people don't even see
and there's the drug deals
which are on the whole no more offensive than someone asking you for the time
if you're not in need of drugs
but if you are
you go straight to that part of town
you don't accidentally park your car there
and suddenly those people are menacing. like the old myth about vampires not being able to cross thresholds
or the nice friendly dog until you try and take its tennis ball
that whole thing
it is a known fact
that if there is a popeye's chicken and a money advance store within one block of each other, cars will be broken into, people will paint there own private nights with laughter up against the walls of deserted business buildings
talking to inscrutable voices and acts
perhaps talking to god
maybe this is where all the reluctant prophets go
it's horrible how they keep people in dire situations
from rising up
by paychecks and popeye's chicken
because if you need your pepsi on tuesday, you don't care about interest on wednesday
you might not even make it that fa
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