The ship that sailed the moon

Oh to be a cat! To, at least, be able to sleep like a cat – fifteen hours a day, without the pressure of having to nail those fifteen all in a row. That’d be divine. Ya know, sleep a few then get up, grab a snack, endure a bit of cosseting from ”Mom,” engage in some bird watching, poop, have a good post-crap zoom around the house and then find a nice patch of sun for a nap. Ahhhh, heaaven.

Nope. We wage earning, bill paying humans have calls on our time.

FREEDOM! Yes, what cats have. Mel Gibson too but he had to be drawn and quartered to, ultimately, get it. NOT the sort of freedom I’m questing. 

My man, Ten!

I woke at 1AM from a wonderful, wonderful dream. The Amazing Bob was still here but his existence was fading fast and hard (this was NOT the wonderful part of the dream, just FYI). In the midst of all this pain, a fabulous, thoughtful man appeared in my life from out west. He came bearing the most gracious, caring gifts (flannel pajama bottoms!). He left his home and moved east to take care of me, to shore me up in this blindingly painful time.

Can anyone say…TEN. Sure ya can.

So, I’m awake now but the dream was good so I should be able to drop right back into Snooze Land, right? Wrong-o mon ami!

Unbidden, Matthew Shepard came to mind. To embroider on a phrase by good ol’ Rabbie Burns: man’s rabid, savagely brutal inhumanity to man, woman, child and animal make countless thousands mourn. At least.

Raymond Jackson

In this wee-hour lamentation I was seized by the NEED to know if Shepard’s murderers were ever caught. Yes. They’re doing two life sentences apiece. Is that enough for their most heinous, barbarous crime, for the sadistic theft of another human’s life? One of the murderers laughably, in an intro to remarks about his theoretical remorse and how he’s changed, referred to the vicious murder as “unfortunate.” Gee…YA THINK!?!!!

Death penalty – do I believe in it? Nope. Consider our seriously flawed, biased-against-blacks-and-browns justice system. White, particularly wealthy whites are favored, coddled and protected from consequences. If it was up to the fugly-to-the-core, astoundingly racist dumbfuck in the White House AND a shit-ton of others, the WRONGLY convicted men in the Central Park case would all be long dead.

Humans – we value vengeance over justice. Violent retribution is especially sweet if you get to visit it against a group of folks you already blame for all that’s wrong or missing in your life.

Ya see, this, THIS is keeping me awake.

Possibly Coco could help me take a nap later.
Paul Simon – American Tune