I
have to walk myself back, and admit to a correction: There are whites, at least
those who work for Liberty Health, who are as moronic as Presbyterian Homes minority
managerial staff like Debra Horne and Trudy Richardson, even if it befuddles me
why the coffee light guard downstairs is fixated on my father’s rushed
appearance during this too lengthy interregnum which will result in my spirit
being crushed. I do not know what Liberty Health is, but their employees
harassed me just as I was harassed in 14 by an earlier pair. The 2017 round was
an older man named Tom, and one younger patronizing punk. I asked the younger
if he knew any famous people with cerebral palsy. “No,” was my answer, and I
should have kicked his ass, even from my filthy mattress. I did frighten them
both, in October, as only women can, and they both jumped to help me eat when I
hissed with scorn at “fucking regulations!” The kid was a kid, but this Tom is
as much an ignorant racist as I admit to being, the forthright savant. I gave
Tom more punishment over telephone, as the idiot’s contractual obligations are
to shovel us like shit into nursing homes, but, the key is not my inconsolable
misery, and the punishment my body is taking and will not recover from. It is
what I asked the punk bastard kid, and how he responded. This signifies the
failure of sixty years worth of activism and disability law, and that attitudes
do not change. I never expected to literally adopt the mantle of Vassar Miller.
Those odds are long, but there are not enough of us who can cross over into the
mainstream. I once believed Linda Dezenski could do it, but I suppose I took
care of that, not quite able to let it flow, like Dana Delaney and her cannabis
dealer in “Hand of God.” The dealer is a lesbian nigger, and tells Diva Harris
(Delaney) a back story that concluded, “That was the first time I made out with
a woman and had an orgasm.” No big deal. Women smirk about sex just as men do,
but the way my former supervisor did what she did triggered my emotional scars,
and I did not think such a genteel poem as I sent her would have resulted in
such a graphic suggestion. I needed to leave this building then, as I always
have, my one constant, willing to be homeless outcry, and the counternarrative,
looming so large, is to move in with my 94 year old grandmother.
Am I engaging in
liberal outrage? Perhaps James
Dorwart thinks so, assuming he has time to scan my occasionally esoteric
posts—but what some of you may not understand is I am using big tent
egalitarianism to illustrate that big tent egalitarianism is a crock of shit.
Other wheelchair users understand better than my ambulatory followers, and I am
sure James does too—maybe I’ll throw him a bone about art therapy empowerment,
as I am alienated out of the shared experience of identity, ever mindful that he stayed in the ivory tower. I
deflated out of it, as opposed to pole vaulted. No one’s fault that case
management destroyed me in certain ways; teaching might have done so too, but I
think it raises serious moral questions, that I have to be destroyed because I’ve
been non-compliant—in that sort of quasi-ecumenical vein, where “Hand of God,”
works as an implied Pentecostal parable, Blessid is
an implied Catholic cheat sheet, and left me displeased, and even the reviewer
undercuts his own enthusiasm for what Heske and Fitz do without any valid clues
as to who, or what, Jedediah (Montgomery) is supposed to be. The hostile
obsessed ex-lover, Ethan, attempts to murder the supernatural neighbor, and I
gathered this alluded to the Crucifixion, but beyond that, the only clue offered
was Edward’s mention of the neighbor’s black teeth, and that his knowledge of
horticulture had something to do with his lengthy lifespan. Instead of actually
redeeming “Sarah,” the story ends with the message that the Resurrection makes
life precious, too awkward even for apocrypha. I pleaded for help on this
account two months ago, inappropriately, and expected exactly what I received,
smirking, but if I am forced beyond any choice—I suspect Sarah had other
alternatives—toward involuntary medical commitment, I’d be far less anguished
if I had a voluntary executor to safeguard my work, published and all. Please
think about it. Despite my obstinacy, and the nuclear fallout of my idealism, I
deserve better than senseless maintenance in an institution, and even deserve
better than immigrant African care. I may not prevail all that much longer, unless
Melania invites me over to watch the president’s wildlife footage.
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