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"career of evil"


december 2nd

I'd like to do it to your daughter on a dirt road.
And then I'd spend your ransom money
but still,I'd keep your sheep
I'd peel the mask you're wearin
and then rob you of your sleep
rob you of your sleep,
I'm makin a career of evil.

-Patti Smith
 as recorded by  Blue Oyster Cult on 1974's Secret Treaties album

Black eye. So much better after yesterday's fresh air.STOP. A humiliation like that impedes even creativity. STOP. JR and PR are probably "LOL" at that guy in Florida who killed his six year old.STOP. I never stole from Corpsey Lorpsey. STOP. You had to write everything down. STOP. So there I am coming out of a nursing home adjacent to a shopping center in Arapahoe County, see. I am an 8 foot long MONSTER,see, cuz I'm rollin corpse, under a blood stained blue blanket,see, so I'm coming down the back sidewalk heading towards my vehicle, see, when around the corner comes two kids on skates, see, and they go sailing off into the grass when they gets a load of my ordinary day, see, I couldn't help but digg real deep and say, "HAVE A NICE DAY."

Me and Corpsey Lorpsey stopping at the vending machines at Swedish Hospital. Corpsey Lorpsey and I going through the drive-thru at HARDY'S in CHEYENNE. Waiting for the priest in a BOILING Texas graveyard I absentmindedly leaned on the metal casket that's been baking in the sun for an hour..."YOWWWUTCH!" I screamed in front of the whole congregation. HOT HOT HOT!
 

"My Corpsey and me like to climb up a tree."

Relief is settling in. I'm feeling better! They turned Boulder's INTAKE pod into a stinkin homeless convention after the murders of "Mad Dog Simpson"  AND Sus. Chase. I don't recall one howling bum dialing up HAL HADDON, but every whino had a detective's buisness card. Fresh and crisp. One bum "in the hole" related to me how they'd snatched him outta his sleeping bag for questioning in the Chase case. They taped brown paper bags to his hands to preserve any possible evidence. They grilled him at P.D. headquarters for SO LONG that when they let him go the CHASE family had already arrived from back East. The gentle bum tried to offer his condolences as he passed them, but they were APPALLED, and the police hastened his exit. Does NO ONE see how THIS GUY FELT and that within the context of a HORRIFIC MOMENT in HIS LIFE he felt enough of a connection THRU TRAUMA with the Chase family to TRY to say a peaceable thing?

In other news: they brought a TOUR GROUP of high school students through here this morning. What a site my smashed up face must have been. I used to always yell, "PATSY DID IT" in such sitauations in Boulder but I felt it wouldn't be tolerated HERE.

Not long before I left Boulder they brought in a group of planners from some other city in the country that was thinking of building a jail similar to Boulder's. They let about ten of them roam into GenPop module and they kicked two guys out of a cell so they could waddle in and inspect. ( wearing sweaters). Not unlike chickens, they pecked round here and there and when one of them strayed too far I told other inmates on a nearby couch, "watch this". So I mosey on over, see, and I puts on an ox-like dumb face, see, and I says, "is it true you guys are here to consult about housing the Ramseys?"  The guy just said, "no", which I already knew, but you could SEE he now had a story to TELL when their junket group hit the bars later. PEOPLE! God love em! I'm gonna write to the jail captain (whoever that is HERE at Douglas county) and ask him if he'll drive to work tomorrow with paper bags taped to his hands.

J.T.Colfax
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