Sunday, August 21, 2016

Alas, look!


For Billy's tale to be concerned with whether he was shot to death by the law or escaped to live in another place for many long years is to completely overlook the dignified stance of one who is trying to maintain, I am here! You have no right to tell me I do not belong where you find me. A mountain lion and a tiger and an eagle and an elephant know and Joe Hill and Woody Gutherie and Bob Dylan, and Jesus! Have you seen dignity? That's what this story is about! This blindness comes from reading so many books you actually are concerned with survival. Real people know that nobody survives. What counts is what you were doing when the moment comes.