Goose Clover (5)

   
   "Goose Clover (5)"
   
   @ the Amoco, I was pumping the dinosaur fuel for an auburn haired lady in a Ford Pinto; next, I knew Ralph Nader would get involved, and in the waaaay future, Donahue too, in all his weirdness, supporting him as a Green Party Candidate.  Us gas pumpers know plenty.
   Regardless, the lady with auburn hair lifted her head, revealing tears running down a face smeared in freckles.  I asked her to pay me for Amoco's services, and she was crying; furthermore, said to my astonished soul:  "Nobody likes me.  I'm not even an A cup; I wear a training bra, and I'm forty-seven years old; plus, everybody calls me Freckles."
   I took her payment; moreover, I consoled her; plus, asked her out on a date.  The shapeless divine and  those born with asymmetrical features--their corporeal aspects ridiculed.  Yet there is always a mirror of justice.  Bullies have to sneak up on themselves in the mirror.
   Anyway, we went to an Italian place for dinner.  There was candlelight.  She was humble, head down, but I asked to see her glimmering face; next, she displayed it for me, that sweet countenance totally covered in freckles, and deep-green eyes, haunting behind.  Could this be the love of my life?    She was so fractured and frail, yet had carried on for almost half a century, fighting the bullies and their beefy bravado, though wilted when the mystical rose reveals her bitter thorns.   

Goose Clover (4)

   
   "Goose Clover (4)"
   
   After checking the air pressure in a set of tires on one of them Mustangs 2's, kinda cheesy vehicles, reminding of a Chevy Monza in crafted style, weak with only a four cylinder; however, having a four speed and shifting V-8 transmission; indeed, all the Mustang 2's needed were some intake and outtake options, making it better than stock in a sense of performance; next, you got a pretty fast car.
   So, after an autumn night's cruise homewards in my truck, windows rolled down to catch a kiss from the four winds, I'm back in my apartment, talking to my sister on the horn.
   She's all about me getting married, finding a lifetime love, and I would have none of it, but listened patiently before my response, which was:  "I like being a fifty-seven year old bachelor; it keeps me young; plus, nobody is nagging me all day."
   Then, I saw the future, like Warhol mentioning that we'll all be famous for 15 minutes in the future, and then, with the Internet and Smart Phones--it does come true.  And your spouse and friends bother you daily by posting cat videos, and sending them to your phone while you're trying to pump gas--you'll have to do that for yourself in the future too.  

Goose Clover (3)

   
   "Goose Clover (3)"
   
Goose Clover, in his muddy truck, rolled down Three Chopt Road
In Richmond, Virginia; moreover, thought he ran over a horned toad;
Thus, he prayed for the coyote killer;
Next, ignited a KENT cigarette, highly respected by Romanian vampires--them wrigglers;
Then, onward did his large tires torque to the Amoco gas station, where he pumped fuel,
Him having a respected job, and doing it with simpatico cool,
Adoring his labor and the Eastern seasons that brightly change,
Never wanting his mundane life to be supernaturally rearranged.  

Goose Clover (2)

   
   "Goose Clover (2)"
   
   Yeah, gas was around 59 cents a gallon, and once, some fancy lady with a CHARLIE'S ANGELS type of  hairstyle tipped me with a two dollar bill, showcasing Virginia's greatest lover--no, not George Jefferson, for he owned a type of laundromat.
   Anyway, it was the Bicentennial year, and a corduroy suit only cost around $69.00; plus, BARETTA was my favorite show on ABC.  Too, I liked listening to THE SPINNERS and WILD CHERRY.  Hell, I was old--not dead.
   So, I was cruising around Regency Mall, headed to my apartment complex.  My sweet sister, the chemist, was there with a sample of the new toothpaste she had invented; moreover, she had made some tacos.  It was a pretty cool night.  And always sweet to have a loving sibling, even though she was considering voting for a peanut farmer.   

Goose Clover (1)

   
   "Goose Clover  (1)"
   
   My Uncle once mentioned:  "You can't spank autism out of a child."  And to think, they could say that particular parent is enabling?  Sure, you want the kid to try; moreover, to make the attempt at time travel as might go the galactic prose of James Tiberius Kirk; still, I, Goose Clover think:  could my parents have been better to me?  What about Clinical Depression, where all you want to do is hang yourself with a noose made from the fabric sold at The Home Depot?  That's it--every weird-freaking day--you want death.
   Your Dad says:  "Get laid."  But you are asexual, or you only want the hot, blonde cheerleader--nothing else will be like SNICKERS and satisfy.  So, can you spank or tough love mental illness out of a person?  What about Crohn's Disease?   Can you spank that out of somebody?  Or Lewy Body Dementia?  Should you tell that person to just walk like a man?
   Indeed, diseases and disorders are misunderstood.  Yet there are people armed with saving grace and plenty of mercy.  Like Canadians.  Okay, I'm a bit freaky weird too.  I watch SCOOBY DOO to gain euphoria in times of severe melancholy, where the blue hue does not psychologically or metaphysically communicate.  Shit, am I Agoraphobic?  Can you spank that out of someone? 
   Look @ THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE, the movie.?  They tortured his regal and royal ass until a state of sanity.  Put glass in him.  Better than Saint Francis throwing himself into the thorn bushes when he saw some hot women walk down the dirt road.
  Oh well, that's me, old Goose Clover, fifty-seven years old, and I pump gas.  It's 1976, and I wash your windows too.  I'm somebody.  I hold a job; plus, got some jingle in my pocket as a futuristic, Nashville song will sing, one day.  And I love my truck.  I live in Richmond, real cosmopolitan.  And my sister is a chemist, working on some fancy, new toothpaste. 

Platinum Scapegoat (2)

   
   "Platinum Scapegoat (2)"
   
   Bush League college kids never get to read Jude the Obscure; specifically, it would torment them terribly, knowing that autodidacts exist in time and reality; regardless, Rob had read it.
   He wasn't going to let things end this way for his son Mason.  Cameras in the house.  Unlike the storytelling Irish, he was into documentation like the British, and it was 7 miles long baby.
   Tanya and her mother were soon expelled with mercy.  He couldn't allow it, nor did he want to play games.  Divorce is never dangerous or difficult the second time around, rarely.  
   Rob loved Mason more than anything save God.  And as he pushed his son in the wheelchair through the summer night and its breezy bursts of cool air here and there, he gave humble nod to the Celestial Hierarchy and all the merciful teachings They provided.  Do not let a thug into your house; moreover, do not let a scandalous woman into your house.  And if you do and they stab you in the back with false testimony; next, forgive and let go.  Vengeance belongs to God alone.  He monitors every thought and intention of man.  For the wise man--death is not the conundrum, but life is.  

Platinum Scapegoat (1)

   
   "Platinum Scapegoat (1)"
   
   Mason was a myriad of messes.  Fallen, or dropped--better yet, by a step-family member, yet so sublime, like having the Old Testament falling hard onto his absorbing head; next, paralyzed and wheelchair bound, seeing it all, though unable to speak.
   He never told his Dad what his new wife's daughter had done.  Tanya, her older, an angry, angst ridden adolescent, while Mason was only nine years of age; moreover, he never told Dad about how Tanya's Mom treated him, for he couldn't.  Lost unto a world within himself, deep in trances and silent prayer, begging Saint Uriel to bring solid justice.
   The worst that Mason reflected upon was that his step-mom was attempting to frame his father for neglect, when in fact, it was the polar opposite; indeed, all for the money--smell the money Johnny Football, and you get lost in the fiction of it all.
   Mason's Dad's name was Rob, and he was being robbed.  Mason figured they'd have him (Mason) killed and his Dad blamed in a few months.  So, as the shortest verse in the King James Bible goes:  "Jesus wept."  Too, Mason wept, his tears still able to run down his scrawny face within the fiction of a happy suburbia.