Overheard:

“Scrappy’s been in and out of prison so many times. He goes to prison, rats out other users… He’s even ratted out his dealers. It’s not ‘3 Strikes and you’re out. It’s more like 20 Strikes and you’re out.”

“Sounds to me like Scrappy’d be facing retribution for something like that, and is better off in prison.”

“No. I think he’d be fine. Scrappy is a scrapper.”

…………..

I found myself in North Portland, where I walked around the blocks of my old apartment. I walked up to old posters posted onto signposts of a missing cat. I penned a question mark and an exclamation mark at two different points of the poster… So it goes like:

Missing Cat
Orange Tabby
White Too ?
Longtime Missing !
Contact Information: ….

I could have scribbled out a badly drawn picture of a cat, but I figured even on what looks a little old — though the fact that there were many of these posters — it’d be too confusing. Besides, I’ve occasionally marked these posters with these punctuation marks — for no real discernible reason.

Have You Seen the News?
A Movement Has Began!
Power to the People!
Pioneer Square Saturday November (Last)
This Is A People’s Movement Against Bush.

I don’t know how this movement is any different from the movement pre-election day, or what news I’m suppose to have seen, but I suppose it has to be related to:

The two party system and the electoral college are a fraud to democracy. (etc etc blah blah blah). Keep your eyes open for real democracy.

Better yet, someone posted a long-ish piece, sprinkled with Beatles references, about how we must all turn away from politics and turn to MUSIC.

Wait and see. Keep your eyes open. A Movement has sprung up!

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