As told 2 Little Man, as he awaited for his night shift 2 begin…
“how can U forget, Robert Duval, shirt off, navy blue handkerchief around his neck, aviator dark glasses and mounted infantry hat on his head, as a swarm of planes drop their morning hail of destruction on a jungle that refuses to die…gees, Little Man, don’t U remember…and the song playing on loud speakers…I can’t remember…that’s why I’m asking you…can U call Robin Williams for me…WELCOME 2 VIETNAM…the Hollywood treatment
Little Man is thinking of the evening ahead (but also scanning songs in his head: Grace Slick…white rabbit begins
Full throttle); he decides against telling this trivia 2 little everyman, and instead, begins:
LM: Do U remember that scene in “Little Big Horn”…Dustin Hoffman becomes tiny…as a non-native child in a Native tribe…attempting 2 reconcile his dual existence, both a sinner and a saint in loin cloth.
EM: so, U R not going 2 tell me the song…I am 2 grown up 2 listen 2 stories about cowboys & Indians…I am small but I am not a kid.
LM goes on: the tribe’s ranking elder had wandered off alone 2 prepare 4 his departure…building a platform 2 lay
on 4 easy landing and take-off 2 the next stop in the beautiful ever-lasting NOW.
EM: it wouldn’t hurt U no 2 just tell me the song…
LM: after the elder had stretched out 4 many hours, with his eyes closed and his breathing not noticeable, a mist began 2 fall…and the winds picked up their pace as if running from the approaching storm…large drop of rain were whipped in 2 the face and eyes of the elder…his eyes, under attack… begin 2 ask invisible questions…and then, as if 2 C 4 themselves what is happening…they open
EM: it is now fully dark and I will go…
LM: Keep U R eyes open…
It is not clear to whom LM is speaking…so I will leave it here.
2 the other side, do not believe 4 a moment that R thru telling U 2:
stand up straight 4 god's sake (i have looked, what chapter/verse says that);
U (meaning "us" guys) R filthy: U need a bath; a shave; a hair-cut; a new pair of shoes, when did U last get UR teeth checked...get a check up..get a finger up URs (prostrate ? )...call UR Mom (she is listening over UR shoulder, U speak 2 her)....and,
always saving the real "message-of-the-moment" 4 maximum effect...having shredded the notion of trying 2 stand UR ground...a pliant wee little boy once again...
"how many times must i say this (she, as U well understand, is using this as a rhetorical aside, and IS NOT asking a question 4 U 2 answer...heaven forbid)...i can ream my family in a dozen different ways...but U will never do that in front of me or 2 any of your friends, or UR FAMILY or anywhere or anyone
What have U been saying about them...get the paddle...
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