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| friend Bobby netskyIam 6 Jul 08 12:52AM | Thread Closed |
Saw him again last night; first time since what, about a year ago when you guys wrote words of encouragement for him. I gave him a blue folder of print outs.
Would say that July marks two years since our first meeting. Hospital green scrubs, blanket, wheelchair, leg.
All he wanted then was one cup of cold water from the McDonald's window
(they won't serve you if you are not in a car). An SUV had just ignored Bobby,
tall, black, windows obscure. Blazing noon July Miami sun.
Anyway, last night late brought our third path-crossing--outside the CVS pharmacy. Raining, July again, dark away from the fluorescents, Bobby waited in the light, for charity to walk buy. It's lonely.
"Hey, hello! I know that yellow car." He let me buy a sandwich and a grape juice but I really had to ask.
Well, are you doing OK? "Yes sir, though I have lost my other leg. But you know it wasn't any good any more."
Bobby at sixty calls himself an old man. Yet, his is the smoothest of chocolate skin, with no lines on his brow, no legs for his feet, a government wheelchair, a need to be outside, and an inability to feel sorry for himself, with good wishes for all of mankind.
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| re: friend Bobby netskyIam 6 Jul 08 12:54AM | Thread Closed |
that's just a stupid draft but I had to get it down so I don't lose the mood.
will hone it just a bit later. but it is all true. there's something special about Bobby.
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| re: friend Bobby unknown 7 Jul 08 6:14AM | Thread Closed |
there isnt much special here and i am not feeling too cynical. you're caught up in some constant need to find humanity, meaning in a random universe or you could just have white guilt. bobby does not think himself special.
when you have nothing to lose or have lost everything, expectation diminishes and you become prone to being apathetic or zen like. Most people fall closer to the former.
continue to seek out moments to soothe decay
mental caries
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| re: friend Bobby netskyIam 7 Jul 08 4:28PM | Thread Closed |
I don't feel sorry for Bobby. I think he has wonderful resilience and spirit.
And you? You are death itself. Geeze....
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| re: friend Bobby unknown 7 Jul 08 4:43PM | Thread Closed |
White guilt? WTF is "white guilt" and where does that even come into play here? Give THAT CRAP a rest. Remarks like that only attest to why race relations are still so tense in America even after all these years. My Godmother's an African-American woman from Montgomery, AL who rode on the same bus as Rosa Parks did. Does she have BLACK guilt for having accepted the offer from my parents to be who she is to me? I'll have 2 ask her. I listen to a hefty diet of R&B, Funk and Classic Soul. Does that make me a "whigger?" Someone is showing quite a surprising and refreshing degree of humanity here and nice enough to share it openly on a public posting forum. If you don't have anything nice to say, it would probably behoove you keep your less than humane comments in your own personal journal because I don't think they're very kind nor welcome here. You would never do well within the scope of Human Services. It shows in your cold response to what Netsky most likely wasn't even expecting himself. - Starr
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| re: friend Bobby starr 7 Jul 08 4:45PM | Thread Closed |
...and after all that, my sign-in timed out, so here I am again confiming my signature for the previous post unlike some who are too cowardice to do even that.
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| re: friend Bobby Isabelle5 7 Jul 08 5:13PM | Thread Closed |
Amen, Starr.
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| re: friend Bobby starr 7 Jul 08 5:41PM | Thread Closed |
p.s. Netsky...I like it. It's beautiful. Shine that love around. The world and the people need it. Peaceout.
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| re: friend Bobby unknown 7 Jul 08 9:59PM | Thread Closed |
Unknowns comments are totally within the limits of public discourse even if you disagree with him or her. Language usage is important during moments of vulnerability. Pay attention adults.
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| re: friend Bobby starr 8 Jul 08 6:05AM | Thread Closed |
Thank you, adult.
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