In The Blahblahderia

 

Hanging with some local wags 

whose tales aren’t worth wagging,

each one’s lives pretty much a disaster.

A miracle they’re still alive and speaking.

They’re Mexican: they don’t complain.

Unlike the gringo on the comby bus the

other day. He was from San Francisco, 

worked for Bill Gates as an engineer, so

burned out that now he didn’t even own

a computer. 

We’d had words on the bus before about 

masks. Again, I wasn’t wearing one, and 

when he got on the bus he shouted: 

“YOU NEVER LEARN, DO YOU?!"

I tried to say Morelos was green, but he 

interrupted: “IT’S THE LAW!”

The Mexicans on the comby acted as if 

they didn’t exist. Mexicans don’t get 

angry about nothing like that….usually

somebody slept with a wife or stole a 

horse…some real offense. It was a perfect

example of America the way it is now, out 

of context.