They Remained Others Fled

Joc O Sot lies sleeping the final bone yard dirt nap in the shadow of the right field light towers perched way above East Ninth Street across from his tidy little digs in the necropolis his skeletonic remains occupy. High ground. The spirit of Joc O Sot dreaming onward and into the future. "A Distinguished Chief" , reads his headstone. I believe those three simple words as if it is the very rapier of truth. Older law. Old Bones. Laughing back from his grave. "Got you were we want you now Cleveland American League Baseball Team". "We are going to curse you for to settle an old lingering score." Uggh! "Cuyahoooga to you!My old partner Charlie Bread always was quick to tell the world that Cuyahoga translates to roughly " crooked" in the ancient tongue. So Charlie Bread often yelled Cuyooooggaaa , at those in passing that he did not fancy. Charlie spent most of his adult life on East Ninth Street in downtown Cleveland Ohio. First in the old Art Deco beautiful sentry at East Ninth and Euclid's northwest corner The Bond's Clothing Company. A few doors south of the old Roxy Burlesque Theatre . Charlie fit out the strippers outfits every Monday evening , and was so close to so much beauty and tragedy wrapped up in a tight little pocket. Accordingly. Some rubbed off on him. Jelly that is. Composition and form. Ignored my own advice. Old bones molder away in this rapidly draining swampuserium. A stroll about the grounds of the cemetery down the block . Produces an early settlers tombstones inside the east ninth street gates that have been " effected" by some form of primitive Earth movement recently. A Terra firma belch or gaia fart perhaps? Rocks! Not the low ball fecal laced crackler gas emitted down the hill near the old pier the clothing pin bin or whatever that odious anti aesthetic graveyard of bad taste is up near the ditch.Yeah , that ditch! The one down by the east ninth street pier and that ugly pointy mausoleum for old rock and roll rags. Our high ground local cemetery tombstones more likely than not victims of a shifting of the local earth 2006 style. Heavy tombstone just inside the East Ninth Street cemetery gate grew legs and moved it's three hundred or so hunk of chiseled rock form a few feet?The Carter family headstone got the tombstone blues . Got up and trucked off it's ill conceived home of the last two years .Knocked off it's weighty perch atop the original faded early nineteenth Century head stones just inside the gate on Erie Street." Effected By The Early Settlers of the Western Reserve ." A crushing modern weight placed top the original early nineteenth century headstones in a less than Historically or aesthetically pleasing manner in the year 2006 , and a source of bewilderment anytime I have viewed this invader headstone. . " When others fled fever and ague The Carters stayed" . "They Remained Others Fled". Looks like some real live humans perhaps conspiring to lift and pry this hunk of stone off to the hypothetical wet headed creature dreaming of a big junkyard payoff from some scrap dealer.Just who could you imagine to rob a graveyard? What sort of desperate human is deranged enough to violate the dead? This is the realm and mater of horror comprised. "Effected". A justified deed. "Effected" like the competition with Detroit , Michigan and the surrounding suburbs for mostly all the wrong reasons in these early years of the twenty first century. Growth often comes attached with some form or other of pain , of varying degree.Picking on an old bone. Like a set of saliva dripping canine jaws wrapped about a distinctively piquant yet recently discarded bovine soup bone. How did this city of Cleveland ever get the notion to become more as Detroit , Michigan than Toronto , Ontario? Ask the recent urban planners of this odd automotive Nation. Government hit men . Using bulldozers and politically motivated Urban renewal plans as weapons against the fabric of the American urban landscape in the second half of the twentieth century. Definitely effected behavior served up with profits diverse and crooked as the easily purchased American City and County governments and transit authorities bought off by the well documented consortium of oil , auto , steel , and rubber industries who replaced the historical veins in the urban American corpus, with interstate highways , high rise ghettos , and all forms of ugly empty parking lots created from the once occupied tenants of diverse interesting North American cities. Cleveland , Ohio and Detroit , Michigan are examples of botched surgical experimentation of the most heinous stripe. Cheap ripped and torn shells of their former urban glory , Cleveland and Detroit are the De facto examples of American cities in decline. Cleveland politics can be proud by in comparison to the sad , immoral examples set recently by some of the Mayors of Detroit ,Michigan.The current Cleveland mayor is not the problem . The prolific graft , pillage and plunder equation that becomes a day to day living scandal which has brought Cleveland , Ohio and Cuyahoga County to the low place that it resides today . Oh yeah , the politicians and corporate types have had there way here for better than two centuries now , and it is difficult not to be sadly swept up in their waning causatum . Sadly enough the very infrastructure of this part of the post industrial metal badlands comprising the botched Great Lakes former industrial works is now kaput. The urban fabric of these rusty deserted places are rotting away. Citizens , housing , and commercial concerns included. The damned Great Lakes region is a rancid and decrepit cesspool of abandoned lives and industrial wastes of all shapes and stripes. Erie , Pa. Buffalo, N.Y. or any other of the void and null grim places in the post industrial vat of human stew meat and fabula anima mundi that makes one cringe aloud today seem to me the same street merely another city. Deranged news items often of such heinous stripe , emerge from these parts as if lifted from the pages of a history or chapter of events more akin to a third world country. Sordid tales of human depravity . Family warfare. Violent deaths carved out of disputes concerning low gambling games , or perceived slights while all parties are high as hoot owls , under the influence of some " bad shit". Yeah , some evil dope dumped in the hood by way of some foreign soil and rife for to cause mayhem and ugly affairs in all quarters it enters. Government sponsored and aimed to keep the oppressed down closer to the ground. { to be continued in a nauseous fashion I am afraid}

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