ok... now i woke up at 3 am with this on my mind so i am gonna let it rip so that i can get back to sleep
The Men
who let all their energy out of their spines through their open zippers
since there is hardly any little town without a cabana and a banca where they spend the money that should be going to their children on their own self indulgence giving away the few pesos that they might earn to the Chinese who built the cabanas and the other dominicans who run the bancas, the lotteries, the casinos, and one another at the dominio tables
who think that a fancy car and a gun makes an hombre
who think it is just fine to have as many women as they can.. no matter her age.
who brag on having so many children by so many women that they do not care for
who blame the Haitians for ruining everything and do not bother to even condemn the politicos who allow them to come in
The Women
for raising boys who are still sucking at the tete when they are in their forties
for waiting for a barrel to be shipped home,
for spending all their money on their hair and nails and nothing on education
for ruining their posture and their health by walking around in high heels looking like hookers
for paying their beauticians more than their teachers
for being so lazy because they have maids to do their housework for them so that they never learned to pick up after themselves.. and did not teach their children either.. (see last rant)
who keep having children when they cannot even feed themselves and giving in up for any old chopo who buys them dinner...
and because they are such a little backwards island where folks dream only of leaving...they do not experiment with food.. and they ruin their health with a mediocre diet .. heavy on startch and sugar.. so that diabetes is rampant.. despite the fact that there are some of the best veggies in the world here.
The Church
for allowing the place to be a backwards little locale by taking up valuable time in STATE classrooms with their mythology
for not allowing birth control
for article 30
The Government
for being such obvious corrupt crooks
for allowing the place to be poisoned with crack when they ALL know who is dealing
And the People
for accepting their lives of squalor
and not offing some heads
The Diaspora
for running away and sending home barrels and money for the pobrecitos
for filling the locals with their myths about how easy life is afuera so that sankies (ettes)) will sell their bodies and souls for a visa
or risk their lives in a yola
geez/// this place could be paradise...
most people in the States work like dogs for 50 weeks a year to come here for two.
think that covers the main points.. although I will see if i can get back to sleep
que verguenza
WELL, I thought the same thing(BUT A DAY BEFORE YOU DID, haha), but I was just going to write, it would be great if people could contemplate the usefulness of personal responsibility.
a. This whole "it is not my fault thing" I dont like.
b. This waiting for "rescue or resolutions" I dont like.
c. The compliance with purposely lying while predicating that the other person doesn't know what a lie is.
d. When meeting a foreigner it would be great if you were not always looking for the Big Score. You can slow roast a chicken and enjoy it more.
e. If people could speak simply, concisely or in absolutes and not in ephemerals, euphemisms or riddles.
f. Likewise, if they really knew what a real friend was, what prostitution really is, where your problems really lie, why you really cant use the language like other Spanish speaking countries.
g. I am biting your style, Annie: The Garbage. You have to understand people will not return to see "paradise" if they see trash all over the highways. This is the same as d. Once the tourist arrives, you should be selling the return visit. Establish a money train that does not rely on Whores & Western Union(sounds like a good cowboy movie). You expect the trash somewhat in the big cities but enroute to tourist places, people shouldnt be looking out the window of their car or bus and see more garbage on the side of the road than flowers. I suspect this is one of them "water wells run dry" parables.
h. I wouldnt blame the Diaspora though. Maybe for lying, but I think it is more liking the first verse in the Michael Franks song "Blue Pacific"
Here I am: "Hometown Boy Makes Good"
Writes one critic.
All my childhood I lived
By the blue Pacific.
Anytime that reality
Makes me heartsick
I come here just to stare
At the blue Pacific
See? They just trying to show to the people back home that they have made it. They are a success. We can discount how many of them have to concentrate themselves primarily in one city or how they are eaten alive by poverty and the criminal justice system. Or how they are tracked into one low paying occupation or another or how they are obligated to send their children to underperforming schools. I was in the Bronx on Sunday and there was a big whoop about how some young girl last name Bautista, 12 years old, got arrested by the NYPD for getting into a fight in school. Now her mom cant speak english and is getting intimidated by the police as the whereabouts of her child. Does anyone else see this? With one fell swoop, this child has been steered from the principals office of a low quality school district to the criminal justice system via family courts and subsequent probation for what used to be childish indiscretions, fighting in school.
i. I personally...personally, dont have a problem with man that wants as many girlfriends as he can have. My sole problem with the dudes is to be in the mix making children they dont care about nor want. Just as a claim toward supporting their virility and machoness. I dont like that.
But on the same accord I dont give women a pass for refusing to let some of these men see their children. For becoming shrews when the relationship is not going as you fantasized or gossiped to your other female friends. For laying with the guy who suddenly became a no-good-nik AFTER you got pregnant.
