End of expectation is death of hope

go ahead and kiss babies, go ahead and make a connection with that person you think may have something to do with what you want and may help you either get what you want or or make it easier to do what you need to do to get what you want b/c this is AMERICA says Denzel says Andrew Jackson says Capone's consigliare says Tony Robbins says the girl whose aunt owns the corner store where all the heads go to make survival all that much easier, says the NW small town barttender with all the curves and the knowhow about the loggers and their champagne dreams and welfare check incomes with a sink full of dirty dishes and a freezer full of bean and cheese burritos, says the NJ gas staion attendant with the drawn in eyebrows and the high school beauty school dreams but with two kids and an overlong lawn and a Ford Tempo that smokes up the freeway until the local EPA bumper sticker activists call the po you know po - what does she care if the dog pisses on the small grass space between the street and the neighbors - it's a mutt OK, the dog - and but so do you have more sympathy for the insurance salesman in Austin MN who has lost a bunch of white customers in the last five years but who has a subsitute in "slightly" illegal immigrants who have made it to shift managers - what does the Statue of Liberty say about them, much less the statute of limitations - all in all it's about a holistic vision which i dont which powers and pynchon and all thsoe boys do - so i want to go back to CK williams and Wenderoth and the boys b/c those are names i somehow know and I believe in the idea that a person huddled in some corner attached to a desk that's not even made of wood can compose something - a story, an argument trailed by logic, a sentiment even - that makes sit up from my humdrum life and take notice. But that's all. That's as far as i go. And I admit I'd love to go farther - or further, if degree is your bag.