properly grateful, appropriately unsettled Thanksgiving 2014

fiction
Edward w Pritchard


2014- Thanksgiving


Properly grateful, appropriately unsettled we approach today, Thanksgiving 2014.

Never the less we are grateful to just be here. Thanks to the few supporters of our secret and unheralded mass movement.

Hopefully tomorrow these rioters across America will not unite to destroy Black Friday by all going shopping at 6AM on mass and clogging the lines at check-out for all the other good people [ those who don't wear the same button as they do-{1}],

 and thereby keep an unforgettable shopping experience from occurring which would be bad for business and disturbing to Wall Street and the national psyche. That's the rioters new strategy to change America " hit then where they ain't"- attributed to Knute Rockne-ancient deceased football coach.

Thanksgiving 2014- plenty, abundance, good food, peace, serenity-  t'ain't all bad,



Here's what I wrote before:

the changes brought about by suffering

fiction
edward w pritchard

The changes brought about by suffering
what they are know not I.
But real,
loneliness, failure,
ambition fizzled,
harmony lost,
solitary existence.
Emergence on a dark night of rain drenched wretchedness,
flux flashes, red dawn dripping fatuity.

end

[1] as sung by Melanie Sofka