I face being homeless again. That Obama spending did not make its way down to me. Mind you, the food bank I go to, the director, assistant director, the executive assistant, and the executive secretary all have new office furniture. The assistant director got a new credenza. The director has a new car - a Green something. And we get an extra scoop of white rice and tofu on Japanese night.
I have a job, a survival job, and I take advantage of what I can. Unfortunately, I speak english, am male, heteronormative, and white, so government programs, hiring, and contracts do not apply. I know enough from my last time homeless that I am a racist, rapist, gay bashing, meat eating, carbon spewing tree killer who is stingy with his spare money.
I want a real job. The assistant director of the special needs, visually impaired, and or sexual assault victims transitional library at the food bank has one. He is always talking about it when he gives seminars on racism against special needs persons, or obstacles to the visually impaired in addressing racism, or just shaking us down for our purple privilege tokens in exchange for a bag of smokes, banana flavored condoms, or just to get out the back door before the last Internationale is sung. He talks about it before the food buckets are brought up from the basement kitchen. You have to listen. The doors are locked. They aren’t supposed to be, but when the Health and Safety Committee is controlled by them, you can’t control it. So, he he has a job. I want one.
Our glorious assistant director of whatever brags about how he has turned his life around from a life of crime. He got a university degree in Social Work, specializing in Social Insects, from York, in prison. When he graduated, er, paroled, he got this big bucks job in the socialist social services sector. I do not have the money to get a degree.
How do I get to go to prison? It is not as easy as I thought. All I read about in the paper is how criminals roam the streets on parole, bail, and house arrest. How do I go to prison to get the degree I need to get a high paying government funded, unaccountable job? I have not figured that out yet. What I can do, while I am still poor, with out hope, my back to a wall, and oppressed, is to strike back against oppression.
I hate people who hate. Take the public sector municipal worker who plows the sidewalk, for example. He starts work at 10:00 pm, and drives his new urban sidewalk snowplow, sipping his thermos of vodka.
I hate racists. The public sector worker is white, so his is a racist. So, I hate him. I do not even know him, but I can hate him.
I hate rapists. The public sector worker is a male, so he is a rapist. So, I hate him. I only see the guy in the snowy winter, around 10:45, when he gets to my sidewalk, and he is hated.
I hate gay bashers. I heard the socialist enabled snow plow operator use foul language that exposed fags to hatred. Someone had urinated in his snowplow cab, on his seat, his lunch, and his ‘commute home’ shoes. Nothing justifies gay hurtful talk. So this public sector worker is a gay basher. I hate him.
I hate meat eaters. I saw the public sector snow plow worker eat a fast food hamburger. After his homophobic rant after someone pissed in the cab of his snowplow, all over his lunch, he went out for a burger. People who eat meat are crazed killers, filled with hate. I hate him.
I hate carbon criminals. The snow plow operator is causing global warming everytime he plows the snow. He told me he is working alot of overtime this last three years. All those heavy winters are causing global warming because of this carbon criminal spewing exhaust out of the rectum of his busy snowplow. I hate him.
Obama, the hole in the donut. It takes many taxpayers to support one taxspender. How many telemarketers does it take to match one snow plow socialist job? If he went away, then either my taxes would go down, and I could afford the good things in life, or, if he went away, I could get his job. And, if he went away, the progressives in the struggle against racism, rape, gay bashing, and global warming, would be impressed and be happy and smile. It would be like voting four times in an election. What more could a progressive ask for?
Hope and Change and Inspiration. A few days ago, waiting in line in the snow for my scoop of beans and cabbage at the food bank, I was chatting with a fellow worker, taxed into poverty. He talked about the valiant struggle of the Bolsheviks against fascism. I was inspired. As a member of the working class, inspired by the party of the working class in their struggle to redistribute the capital of the working class into the hands of the non-workers of the workers party, I felt good.
The Molotov Solution. I used my free services at the People’s Municipal Library to research Bolsheviks and their nuanced approach to accommodating diversity. The library is right beside the safe injection site, and you can use the free Library daycare if you have to shoot up. The DVD section is just past the permanent display of the immortal legends of Social Justice, just look for Lenin, Trotsky, Trudeau and Obama. I signed out some movies. That is how I learnt about the Molotov cocktail.
More Molotov Solution. One morning, I burgled a house. I know the owners. He works, and she does yoga. The house was mine from eight till six. I burgled for all the revolutionary supplies I needed. Some bottles (I poured the red wine out of the dusty bottles onto the carpet); a diversity of flammable liquids from the bar-b-que stash; some wax candles, some rags (I tore up some linen pillow cases). As a gesture of solidarity with PETA, I dumped the overfull cat litter box into the washing machine along with whatever underwear I could easily gather, and the two left slippers, his and hers. I cranked it up to hot, the washing machine that is, feeling oneness with the struggle for human rights funding, even as I added their only can of Draino to the happy wash water, to scent the air with amines to greet them upon their return to their fingerprint free, ransacked home. How their eyes would water with joy, like the lost French regiments under mustard gas attack.
Even more better. A few days after my harvest, I was ready, prepared in ambush for the snow plow driver. Ten o’clock rolled by, and their shift started, now that the streets were safely clear of commuter traffic. I waited in ambush. I idled my time pretending to read Crime and Punishment. I lie to my girl friend that I have read a single page of it. She is a blonde. I waited, then I saw him coming. Swerving drunk. I giggled like a journalist after a conservative. But instead of using my imagination, I used a Molotov cocktail. My aim was good.
The public sector worker was protected by a shield of plexi-glass. But some of the bar-b-que starter got into his cab. His shoe caught on fire. Then the thermos of vodka, it’s cloud of fumes, went whump. His hair, greasy from beer sweat, caught on fire, and he shrieked and he stumbled out into the slush. He rolled in the snow, extingushing his hair.
My second cocktail, I could not use it on him. Nothing hard to break it on close to him. Camping wisdom: Too much snow for a good fire. Besides, he smelt bad. Like burning rubber and cafeteria pork. I pitched number two into the cab of his earth raper snow plow. That set his second thermos of vodka on fire, then his pound of weed smouldered into a mushroom cloud of skunk. In the excitement, he managed to get to his cell phone, but the Rogers help desk was unable to help him.
The third cocktail, and my last, finished him off, the carbon spewing criminal. It was like pictures of the firebombing of Dresden, only he was not a child, but a grown man, who lived off the life forces of six or seven bewitched taxpayers.
I stood there for a while, and nothing happened. His fat stopped sputtering. The smell of french fries, frying fresh from where he kicked them under his seat, faded. There was a blue fog of pot smoke. My eyes watered. And nobody showed up. Not the fire department, the police, or the humane society. Finally, some old lady stuck her head out of her front door a few houses down, and she told me to shut up, she was trying to sleep, and that I was a cock sucker. She slammed the door.
I had to wait a good long while for the police, fire department, and the coroner. Nobody paid any attention to me. The cops sat in their car and looked at video clips of women’s figure skating. The fire department left as soon as they arrived, because the fire was out. The coroner’s office sent work term students, who vomited up their breakfast of tofu and sprouts. They were unused to the smell of cooking meat. Nobody much looked at me. They never asked me if I was a witness, let alone if I was the author, accessory, or responsible adult.
I walked home in the snow. The head wind cleaned me of the smoke of roast socialist, and I made do with a cup of cocoa. I did call the municipal department. I asked if I could have the job of the guy who just got set on fire. They said he still had two years of bankable sick days, and could not be considered dead until two years was up. I was transferred to voice mail, and there was no zero option back to an operator.
Recovery from this recession might require more sacrifice, more sacrifices.
xpd Mitchieville, DustMyBroom