Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm - email Debora for link for her Zoom Office hours
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| Poem To Tamara, #1 |
Poem to Tamara
You skinny little b*tch
Clobbering the tyrannies
Perfect black hair
made up eyes, lipstickless
Goddamn materialists
walking around with fashion magazines.
How dare you like money.
That’s unhip!
You’re so frightfully
unhip, my darling.
Yer god, “Glamour” magazine[1]
Doctor Freud,[2] Doctor Freud!
“Vell, vat do you vant, gutdammit?!”
“It’s this girlfriend of mine, Doctor. She refuses to come to her senses and see that money is the root of all evil. She’s a terrible materialist, what am I gonna do?”
“I agree vit you my boy, dis is serious, but before I can straighten out your friend I must have my fee! Di you think I vork for nuttin’?!”
Oh what is a pure-hearted soul going to do these days? Money has overtaken the universe. Why, I remember the good old days when you weren’t hip unless you despised money. But this modern generation just refuses outright to be beat, money, money, money! That’s all they care about. (Sigh.)
Like all soulful truth seekers, I must hurl my mudpie brickbats at all materialism. Down with Rockefeller,[3] Woolworth’s,[4] Howard Hughes,[5] all the other rich bastards, up with the true soulful purists, winos, incompetants [sic], and lazy sit-on-their-asses without guts or ideas to build a financial empire! And always remember that its [sic nobler to be poor and sit on your ass than to create something great— Creating puts you above your fellow man, and competitiveness is a terrible vice, because it separates the men from the everyman babys [sic], and we can’t have that, can we? Oh, no. The perfect society for me and my mom and the other untalented sh*t eaters grand-grovelers ass kissers and lickers would be one in which nobody could be better than us, so that we would have true equality and democracy, with everybody absolutely the same, with nobody to feel inferior because geniuses are destroyed and we’re all noble honorable pure-in-heart-and-soul-hating-evil-money untalented sh*teaters dirt grovelers ass-kissers gravellickers, ultra-political and considerate, because its [sic] better to give than to receive, all selflessly give each other everything so that everybody wants to be not first but last in line, on the busses the men give their seats to the women, women give their seats to the children, children give their seats to the dogs, being noble people. Isn’t that a wonderful world to dream of? Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if it was like that and everybody polite and considerate asskissers, etc.?
Now, aren’t you going to reform from your materialistic ways, darling, and join me in mindless unselfish not materialistic bliss?
Yours truly,
Jesus Christ II,
Alias Lester Slambangs
P.S. Do you think the fashion magazine will have me as a male model? The world reforming business is kinda slow and I need some swag.
[1] Glamour: popular Condé Nast magazine first published in the U.S. in 1939.
[2] Freud, Sigmund. b. 1856. Austrian born founder of psychoanalysis.
[3] Rockefeller, J.D. (John Davison). b. 1839. Co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, this American industrialist and philanthropist is widely considered the richest American in history.
[4] Woolworth’s (a.k.a. F. W. Woolworth Company): retail chain of five-and-dime stores first opened in 1878 by Frank Winfield Woolworth in Utica, New York.
[5] Hughes, Howard Robard, Jr. b.1905. American business tycoon who formed Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932; Hughes was popularly known as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.
Debora Curry
English Dept - Administrative Assistant
Email: debora.curry@gcccd.edu
Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8am to 10am and 2pm to 4pm - email Debora for link for her Zoom Office hours
8800 Grossmont College Drive
El Cajon, California 92020
619-644-7000
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