Factoids, Facts, and Fiction



Blame it on Texas
Its violent past
Blame it on the Alamo,
The Civil War,
The slave agony,
The KKK,
The outlaw badmen,
The Comanche and Kiowa bloodletters,
The motorcycle gangs selling LSD,
Or you can blame it on the bullshit macho of the region
Or you can blame it on:

  1. Some folks are just plain crazy
  2. One never ever truly trusts the federal government
  3. None of the above

VI.

The radioactive clown dust descended
on Jesus boy
the Texas farm bureau said it was harmless
He pissed blood for 40 days and 40 nights
into the black dry ground
(Deep cracks that stretched right down to Peking, China)

*Random history note:

2 months after Gen. Bobby Lee
threw in the towel at Appomattox, Virginia
The Cherokee Stand Watie who had cast
his fate with the C.S.A.
became its last general officer to
surrender in June 1865
which was still an agonizing 20 years
before Dr. Pepper was invented
down in Waco, TX in 1885

VII.

The Devil rang the phone with lightning
in a turd floater summer thunderstorm
Just one ring

The yard outside lit up
brighter than the noonday sun
then it went pitch black
thunder cracked
ducking out heads
under the covers
we never pick up that phone
when it rings in a storm
cause we knew like everybody else
that the devil only rings once

 
* Random history note:
The last battle of the Civil War was fought
May 12-13, 1865
At Palmito ranch, Texas
It was a Confederate victory.
WHOOP DEE SHIT!