hasty scribbling of youthful thoughts, for later processing.......then forgotten....now excavated with little intentions...1966....written, during a lugubriously philosophical period, while still in College...

MY FIRST "POOL"....an oblong, enameled steel pan.....for lounging on a hot afternoon....looking around for bugs and other critters.......

scanned from an old negative that tumbled from an old book in the basement......It's 'me' on a lazy summer afternoon, in my Grandparents' back yard.......c. 1946-7     

 

WARTIME FODDER.......HIPPIES or VIETCONG? JUST 'SUBDUE THE ENEMY' HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE RULE, BY LAW.....

When I moved to Atlanta, in the Fall of 1968, the Po-Lice were 'on the hunt' for 'Hippies'........but, 'mostly', they just stood around and 'watched' the goings on of long-haired, bell-bottomed 'freaks', loaded with pot and psychedelic drugs.....Within a year, however, it was 'shields, batons and riot gear' that grappled with the 'Love Generation'......At that time the 'pigs' were a frustrated lot....but, compared to today's paramilitary styled police....they were far more passively involved with their 'jobs'.......the 'trained killers' were, then, sent off to Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia to garrote, club, shoot and napalm 'other "not like us" people....in other lands'......After the brain-washed 'soldiers' returned to America....many becoming 'law enforcement officers'......they channeled their trained for combat aggressiveness into forcing 'compliance' at any cost.....

AND.....NOW.......

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HUMANITY'S TECHNOLOGICAL UPGRADES..........

As short-term memory becomes more of an impasse', I'm eager to have a RevoDrive 3 - PCI-Express (PCIe) SSD implant.....Implants will become a part of our lives in the near future, as we evolve with technological innovations....Our genetic progeny, in a thousand years, will be very unlike the humans that we are now.....O.K., Data, watch that hand sweeze, some of us are, still, fragile homo sapiens, you know.