Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for August 14, 2024
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Transcript:
richard's poor almanac by richard thompson monuments to motherhood three proposals for a permanent memorial to the maternal arts. woman 1: hey! lemme go! i'm 35 and-a-half years old! i've got my own life now! 1. take a 300-mile apron string & wrap it, christo-like, all over k street, then let people get tangled up in it. however, this does treat motherhood somewhat ironically, & mothers don't like irony, or any of that other smart-mouth show-off stuff the kids are doing these days. man 1: what? i didn't do anything! what? ok, i'm sorry! 2. this one, based on stone age art, is carved from a 40-foot block of granite & radiates a kind of mono-lithic disapproval. guaranteed to induce a vague sense of guilt for over two miles. man 2: i wanna sit on big mom's lap! c'mon, i've had a bad day! woman 2: go find your ow big mom, ya big baby. 3. a series of fiberglass moms, scattered all over d.c. like those pandas, but much more comforting.
stamps 4 months ago
I do not want to sit in the lap of the stone age momma.
fritzoid Premium Member 4 months ago
’Cause when love is gone
There’s always justice
And when justice is gone
There’s always force
And when force is gone
There’s always Mom,
Hi Mom.
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms
In your automatic arms, your electronic arms…
— Laurie Anderson, “O Superman”