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 So.
48 hours of jail equals complete waste of time. I had an "American history X pt2: The lite version" while i was in there. After 4 hours of the common room, and then put into housing, you began to realize most of the white people in there have shaved heads. All of them walking around in their stripes, acting tough with toothpicks as eyebrow jewelry, which still baffles me. I walk in, though now i have to say that at this time my hair has been growing out again, thankfully, but as i said, i was walking into housing, and white guys were sitting around a table playing cribbage, because in the midwest you don't play spades in jail, you play cribbage, and they call me over to sit with them, so i do, not really thinking because if you spend enough time in there you may as well shave your head because what is a sense of fashion anymore when you sleep on a plastic bed and eat plastic food and drink fake kool-aid that tastes of soap.
i see them play their hands.
i spot a swastika inside the right arm.
another, in defeat, rests his forehead on the table.
i spot another swastika on the backside of his racist scalp.
i stand and walk over to as many peoples of color as possible and sit with them, though that only lasted a few hours until i realized that i could sleep my sentence away...
they asked me why i came to sit down.
"swastikas", i say. "fuck that."
"cool". and he goes back to watching Beverly Hills Cop 2.
 I haven't seen a skinhead in years. PLENTY of years. I thought we evolved in the urban environs, meaning that they stayed hidden.
Then i remind myself i'm in the mid-west.
Seeing as the new Harry Potter is coming out this Sat. (or friday at midnight), and seeing as i am a huge fan(if you disagree, get off your 'i hate it cause it's mainstream' ass high horse and have some fun with your brain that drips pretentious droppings, you shit. i bet you read Garfield. fucker.) i decided jail could be well spent catching up and rereading the other books.
Couldn't. The warden declared them 'contraband'.
Then i remind myself that i'm in the mid-west.
A few nights ago a tree branch few over my retrofitted cable wires that extend from my house to the world beyond. I should say tree 'log'.
That would be more appropriate.
about a month ago the police got me again. in fact, they got me right in front of my house, and as i stepped out of the car it was then that i even noticed i had been pulled over.
...cop came running out to me, hand outstrecthed, doing his 'stand back citizen' posture.
so, after court, they sentenced me to 2 days in the penn.
nice one, SoDak. way to take this threat off your fair streets.
the funny part is, is that the day i have to go spend my 48 hour slap on the wrist is on the 4th of July.
which is independence day.
but not for me i guess.
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