Black Friday

When Black Friday comes
I'll collect everything I'm owed
And before my friends find out
I'll be on the road

so I spent Thanksgiving at Coyote Creek back in the hills, with some kin... oh it smells so good up here..fresh and clean and flowery..

I saw open spaces and hawks and vultures swooping down to get the road kill....poor little animals killed by drunk drivers... I saw the hills and it was good..there was a little Cape Ivy and it looked beautiful..it grows after rains and some years doesn't grow at all..and I hear some folks are "concerned about it" like there's anything they can do, dumbasses...

I see the mountains..the mountain range that goes on forever..the good thing about this place is it's like traveling through time to old California....why, I half expected to see Father A.P. Sierra riding his donkey up here...hola Padre!!

and there's the lake.....you go up and see the lake, you come back and there's the ocean...it's God's country I tell ya...

so the creek intrigued me...I haven't spent time actually hiking it but I'll come back later when the family isn't holding me back with the social traditions....geez, these white people and their warm fuzzy ways...

so today is Black Friday....the day after Thankgiving..let's see...the pilgrims arrived in America, the Indians welcomed them, the white man started killing them and stealing their land, they were put on reservations with stockpiles of moonshine which they fed to the white man while playing cards...then the Indians spotted the white man's weakness..poker and liquor...then the Indians reclaimed the land and built casinos....and thus we have America today....shoppers lining up by the droves to buy cheap goods made in China because they lost all their money in the casinos to the Indians...

and the black folks are just laughing...that's why they call it Black Friday