the note said "dear mr. gutterpoet, why don't you write much anymore?"
I sent a reply to the sender but I found it interesting to ponder a minute or two. I think it's because when I have nothing to really bitch about or mock I just am not moved to write. I'm not a person who will write "oh I'm so happy, the birds are blue the sky is singing...blah, blah. When things are great I tend to be out there enjoying their greatness and thereby not writing.
I had a few things aggravate me this morning so I'll take that chance to channel that energy.
SHOOT THAT IDIOT OUT OF THE CRANE ALREADY!!
Some waste of air from Florida who killed his girlfriend has driven up to Atlanta and parked his arse on top of a crane at a construction site. The morons at the Atlanta Police Dept have let this guy shut down a major thoroughfare for three days. He's been up on this crane as I write this for 30 hours. So this guy is paralyzing the middle of a major city. And get this, they are negotiating with him. Negotiating??? What exactly is there to be negotiated? Let's pretend for a moment that it is not Police Chief Dufus running the show and instead yours truly. Here would have been the negotiation about 29 hours ago.
Chief Gutterpoet: Sir, you have five minutes to choose one of the following options. First, you can come down and turn yourself in. Second, you can jump and do us all a favor by ending your time on earth as a useless piece of human debris. Third, and this is my personal favorite, we will shoot your girlfriend killin' arse off the crane and laugh as you splat on the ground.
You have five minutes sir, the clock starts now.
Life goes on and productive people go back to work and this idiot is off the street one way or another.
But noooooooo! Not the city of Atlanta. This is why I live (like 90% of the metro population way outside of that horribly ran city. Metro area of 5 million and only 400k live in the city. That's no accident. I'm some fifty miles north of the rotting infrastructure. It's not hopeless though, the city is not as far gone and ruined as LA or Detroit or Philadelphia or NYC really. All new government and someone to clean up the mess and it could be a lovely place to live. It's still a very beautiful area. If it stays under current management the high taxes and corruption and abject stupidity will turn it into a ghosttown. Even with the rest of the country seemingly moving to this area daily. Especially my neighborhood full of refugees from the Peoples Republic of China and the Soviet Socialist Empire of New England. Can't say as I blame them, but we're filling up here people!
On the homefront my tomato crop is doing okay, two have blooms the other plants look so-so they're just not growing very fast. It's likely the pre-ice age cold spring we are having though, since tomatoes like warm soil.
We still have had temps at night in the 40's here.
Let's review, shoot the man on the crane, Yankees go home, the coming of the next ice age. That's enough bitching for now I guess.

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