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What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Rachelle King on 11/1/2002; 3:41 PM Cradled head absent from my hands Backs aren’t congenial: bleach sometimes forgets leftover cranberry sully on white flags. Razor-tongued Zapatistas perching on street corners: dried mud puddles descending rings of ragged deep oceans conversing in rapid flutters: silencio (scorned flaunt relentlessly); “Manifest Destiny singed my heartstrings!” Concave chip, silkens with wear, “Excuse me, please pass the sandpaper.” Foolish, letting you indulge showing off my flaws exploiting their cause. This rusty pin itches. Too deep to pull out, twirling it like daffodil stems between my fingers dried blood tendrils flake, gliding windy breath finds floor and begs: “Please, don’t leave me here.”
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Richard Davidson on 11/1/2002; 7:00 PM I felt a bit like that myself. What is it about LA?
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: ScottN on 11/1/2002; 7:42 PM Hey, I like L.A., I just don't want to be governed by it anymore! Signed -- A proud Valley Secessionist.
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Rachelle King on 11/2/2002; 4:04 PM Bul-ack!! L.A. is subhuman.
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Andrew Guerrero on 11/4/2002; 5:55 AM I sure would like to go L.A... (sigh)
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Rachelle King on 11/4/2002; 11:12 AM Okay, I will admit there are some parts to L.A. that I like: That bookstore on the 3rd ave. prominade, the Midnight Train I think it's called, that sells great indy-books you can't find anywhere south of San Fransisco. The view from the observatory at night. The flamboyant excapades in the busy streets. The fact there is more for a meandering psuedo-socialist to do and more for a militant vegan to eat. What I can't stand about L.A. are mostly the memories I have there with an old friend I had a falling-out with. Which is actually what this poem is about. And also (I don't like) the congested pretentious, smog-filled aura. This is not present in all of L.A., though, and I must admit that I haven't seen all of it yet.
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: ScottN on 11/4/2002; 4:16 PM What pretentious smog-filled aura (unless, of course, you are referring to the Westside)? In the Valley, all we want is not to have all our money go into the money pit over the hill.
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Rachelle King on 11/4/2002; 9:25 PM "money pit over the hill"?????????
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Richard Davidson on 11/4/2002; 10:36 PM I wandered lonely as a clod, That slurps low under sewers and streets, When all at once I saw a god, A host, of golden deep fried treats; Beside the scum, beneath the whores, Gobbling and spitting in the doors. Demented as the brains that fry And sizzle on the lighted way, They lurched in ever-churning lie Along the chorus line so gay: Ten million saw the Grateful Dead, Toss their lunch with dripping head. The pimps beneath them belched; but then Out-did the poorly dressed in Goth: A plumber could not milk a hen, Or turn a pumpkin to a Sloth: I smoked and drank but little light What idiots were not so bright: For sometimes when my couch is bent In vacant lots or alleys drab, They dangle on that crumpled dent Which mourns the partridge on the slab; And then my stomach makes such noise, And lumbers with the ten foot boys. Wordsworth sucks. Never forget it. And that's what I can tell you about LA.
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: ScottN on 11/4/2002; 11:44 PM Rachelle, From the P.O.V. of the Valley, Downtown (and City Hall aka the money pit) are "over the hill". The Valley pays about $100M more in taxes than it receives back in services from City Hall. Hence the $100M "alimony" that it would be required to pay in case secession is successful. (Try saying that 3 times real fast!).
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Rachelle King on 11/5/2002; 12:48 PM Yawl should become your own city, then. I can see your point. It's kinda like how Southern California is so much different from Northern California and people want to split the two up.
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Mark Morgan on 11/6/2002; 3:53 PM They tried,Rachelle, but no joy in Mudville today.
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Rachelle King on 11/6/2002; 4:43 PM I see...sorry Scott. =(
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: ScottN on 11/6/2002; 11:01 PM Yep, now we have to see if King James will hold a grudge. You know, if the Colonies had to abide by the rules that the Valley did, we'd still be part of England. Measure F (Valley Secession) had to win two majorities. The first in the Valley itself (which it did, despite an ad blitz by the "No" folks, with no "Yes" advertising at all -- that I saw), and a citywide majority (which, surprise, surprise, it didn't get). It's like giving one spouse veto power over a divorce. Sorry for the topic drift, Mark.
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Rachelle King on 11/7/2002; 12:06 AM I guess you all will hafta just hold hands and get along, huh?
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Rachelle King on 11/7/2002; 12:08 AM By the way, Scott, I don't think there is any preventing topic drift amongst VOUers. It borders impossible.
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Rachelle King on 3/20/2005; 2:04 PM Hi Rachelle King, I am also Rachelle King and found you because I joined a business community network and when it said search the web your stories where the first thing to appear - just saying howdy to another same name :o)
RE: What Lynch Sold Me About L.A. By: Richard Davidson on 3/20/2005; 5:03 PM The other Rachelle King stopped posting here quite a long time ago, and we miss her terribly. Can you try and fill the void? It would help if you write reactionary poetry with good sense of purpose and beat. If not, just stop by once in awhile, and tell us our stuff is good. :)
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