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Fools Part 3
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz – a name to plug into from the
book. Is he a hero of mine? Did I relish the peace I saw there
upriver? How many fouls does it take to
make one out?
SUMMARY: I've looked into the heart of
darkness, where the blood-red journey ends.
When you've faced the heart of darkness, even your soul begins to
bend. For a week I have been waiting,
still I am only in
“I know, captain, that you've done this work before. We've got a problem. You can help us, I am sure. The colonel's gone rogue and his methods are unsound. You'll take a PBR upriver, track him down. There's a conflict in every human heart, and the temptation is to take it all too far. In this war things get so confused, but there are some things that cannot be excused. He's acting like a god, an insane lunatic. Your mission : exterminate with extreme prejudice. The route is dangerous and your progress may be slow. Here's the file and it's all you need to know.”
Here I am, the knife in my hand, and now I understand why the genius must die. Now I stand alone with his blood upon my hands. Where sat the warrior, the poet, now lie the fragments of a man. I've looked into the heart of darkness, where the blood-red journey ends. When you've faced the heart of darkness, even your soul begins to bend.
This is the song "Heart of Darkness" by IRON MAIDEN
Loco de Wacko
Loco de Wacko, you are a warrior/poet yourself, and
so, to my thinking was Jesus. How many
years do you think the Justice Department would lay on him if he came into the
temple of the Pentagon and started swiping at ‘em
with a whip, same as he did to the hypocrites in
What’s a poet but a wounded wolf, Loco? Do you want to hear my howl? There was a man named Allen Ginsberg, and he wrote a poem by that name, a fine work, but not quite like mine. We’ll call this Captain May’s Howl…